California Smelly...yak 2

[MarnochS]

Mixing things up a bit ....plus, I wanted to play with a "highly flammable liquid and vapor"

Rudder covered with Polyfiber LITE cloth thru poly-spray.

Poly-tak is thinned 4:1 and "painted" on the areas where I want to stick the covering to. Wipe solvent ( MEK/reducer) with a papertowel over fabric in place to "glue" it down. Then heat formed around the corners/edges.
Once things are glued on, the fabric is shrunk down in stages ( 225, 250, 275, 300 )
Poly-brush ( thinned 4:1 ) is brushed on the entire surface to seal the fabric, then a spray coat of Poly-brush ( thinned 4:1 )
Poly-spray (uv protection and opacity ) - 3 coats.

[ARUP]

I'd wager there 'were' some rats in Cali that died of cancer using those covering supplies of "highly flammable liquid and vapor"! lol Looks good!

[Gordon McLean]

Scott - Love the attitude this version brings to the design....I have one in the box, but it is as of yet unstarted. Will be following along closely as I would like to make these mods to mine as well.

[MarnochS]

Getting back on the building bandwagon......


And the Left Wing Outer

[supercub]

good to see your back at it nice job

[kjkavaney]

Scott....Hoping you will bring this to HH next year so we can all see it... I sure love my "stock" Cmelak… kevin

[MarnochS]

top and bottom D-box skins and .....Yellow paint.....

[MarnochS]

Working on the Flap linkage before I cover the wing. Servo set for 180 degree rotation so the flaps will stay up when the power is off and lower's the workload when they're down.
Switched to ball links on the flap since the horn was not moving in a linear track to stay lined up. Found I only needed 20 mm of travel to get 60 degrees of down flap.

[kjkavaney]

Great Mod Scott...wish I had thought of this...too late now for me...should prove reliable over the long haul..
kevin

[lenb]

Kevin, thats the extra flap bay you and I don't have on ours.

[MarnochS]

Hi Kevin,
Ball links on the flaps are an easy up-grade as the secondary side is only a slot cut in the leading edge of the flap and then a support bracket is glued in. Something to keep in you back pocket.

Ball links are going on all the control surfaces so I made some secondary brackets for the elevators and ailerons.....then the cutting process.



I really liked Len's Stabilizer gap fill so...... using epoxy/410 microlite filler to fill in the gaps.



Cutting the Aileron bevel. Should be good for 18 degrees down travel

[kjkavaney]

Super Cool work Scott...I'm always impressed with your "touches" to your projects...good stuff....thanks.
kevin

[MarnochS]

I love the smell of Methyl n-Amyl Ketone on a Sunday morning ( thru a respirator, of course )

My new favorite color - PolyFiber #140 Orange-Yellow



I might have been a bit dizzy .....as I started painting the Rudder yellow .....and realized it should be Red.....so......

[Steve P]

Gorgeous. It makes me dizzy from 3000 miles away.

[MarnochS]

I was wanting wheel fenders .....so......




Taking advantage of the warm day for epoxy curing

[yyz]

Looking great, Scott!

[Tango Juliet]

Love the mods your doing! Really makes an already unique aircraft even more unique. Nice workmanship.