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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #50 on: September 01, 2015, 10:17:38 AM »
Bolted all the pieces on and then had a neighbor help me load it in the truck, er sort of "in" the truck. 16ft does not go into 6.5ft without a little overhang.

Dropped it off at the museum (old one is next to it) and took a few pics for all us DOTs around here.
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« Reply #51 on: September 01, 2015, 10:23:41 AM »
Top notch work there JR, whether you fully approve or not.
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« Reply #52 on: September 01, 2015, 10:42:11 AM »
Very Nice!
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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #53 on: September 01, 2015, 10:44:56 AM »
Clean job!
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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #54 on: September 01, 2015, 11:04:23 AM »
Great looking work.  Good job.
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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #55 on: September 01, 2015, 11:23:35 AM »
Thx guys!

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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #56 on: September 01, 2015, 11:26:05 AM »
Gull wing Stinson Reliant

WWII British colors
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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #57 on: September 01, 2015, 11:28:04 AM »
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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #58 on: September 01, 2015, 11:30:18 AM »
Huey (Armee colors) The true meaning of a heli that beats the air into submission to fly,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #59 on: September 01, 2015, 02:49:26 PM »
Top notch looking work there JR!
Even if you're not totally happy, it is a definite 1000% upgrade!

Looks like you should have a collet chuck hiding somewhere in a box too, seen a variety of collets in the one box.
I need to find a lathe around that size. My buddy has a real old belt/gear unit that works, but not super accurate any longer.
And the ones at work, well I'm an Electrical guy, not a Millwright so no beuno for me, even though I can run them.
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb.  I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #60 on: September 01, 2015, 03:10:12 PM »
Looking like good fab to me.... I always wanted  a Huey....maybe best I don't have one LoL


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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #61 on: September 01, 2015, 05:15:23 PM »
Looking like good fab to me.... I always wanted  a Huey....maybe best I don't have one LoL

You probably have some of the parts in one of your sheds...
So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are.  Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!

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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #62 on: September 01, 2015, 06:33:07 PM »
Nice job JR! 
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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #63 on: September 01, 2015, 07:21:09 PM »
Thx guys. They called today and I went and helped a few others clean it up some. Had a nice pressure cleaner with hot water. Got a cool hat and coin out of it.

As for the lathe, the 8-12 inch lathes is all you really need. When I had my 40in I never used the full length. A good bore size is a must.

Yes, I have the drawbar for milling. It also came with a rotary table and a powered grinder. (do an ebay search or just emco and you can see all the stuff) Mine is also the Super 11, do not look at the mentor units!!! I see plenty for sale in Ohio and S Ca all the time.

Basic tooling will get you by though. As long as you have tooling blanks and a grinder you can make you cutting tools. I have a quick change head for mine I just never put on. I think any of you guys who have any size shop would be happy with one and once you use one, you just can't replace it! I think of it like the mig and torches, you just gotta!!

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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #64 on: September 21, 2015, 11:55:14 PM »
It worked great. In fact the jeep could pull it with its little flathead 4.

Wheels came up just as they should have, now they want one for the Gull wing.
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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #65 on: September 22, 2015, 06:28:07 PM »
A classic towing a classic!

That Huey fly?

Can I take it for a spin?

Looks like a standard H-model

I have hundreds of hours flying them...great birds!
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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #66 on: September 22, 2015, 06:34:12 PM »
step away from the rotary wing don.........;D
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« Reply #67 on: September 22, 2015, 06:43:37 PM »
step away from the rotary wing don.........;D
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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #68 on: September 22, 2015, 07:19:44 PM »
ROFLMFAO
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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #69 on: September 22, 2015, 09:51:20 PM »
It does look clean but they tell me it is not in flying condition. But then again I bet you flew many times like that.

Hmmm, Don with that cigar and his RM team.
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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #70 on: September 22, 2015, 10:50:43 PM »
It does look clean but they tell me it is not in flying condition. But then again I bet you flew many times like that.

Hmmm, Don with that cigar and his RM team.
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Can we do that?
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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #71 on: September 23, 2015, 02:35:54 AM »

Yep You guys be ma' boyz,
HC/Bobby on the door guns
JR&Mike crew chiefs
Ken you are running PC (Production Control which is maintenance)
Duane will be safety sam. Someone get him a white construction helmet and mount a rotating beacon on it!
Bob, you have co-pilot
The rest of you memees are grunts. Your job is to get on, don't listen to a word we say, steal stuff while in flight, then jump out before I actually land and twist a few ankles!

Can we do that?

How can you expect me to door gun; and if its a Huey then there better be a 60 in a bungee cord; AND not fall back upon my former ways of grunt life? Nor expect HC to fall in line?
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So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are.  Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!

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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #72 on: September 23, 2015, 07:25:00 AM »
Anybody have a problem with me using the ride time to prep demo?
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Re: Helping out at local air museum
« Reply #73 on: September 23, 2015, 09:14:43 AM »
As long as you sit half out the door, no, just don't say "oops"!
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« Reply #74 on: September 23, 2015, 09:24:09 AM »
As long as you sit half out the door, no, just don't say "oops"!

It's stable, you'll be fine.
So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are.  Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!

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« Reply #75 on: September 23, 2015, 09:32:50 AM »
Nothing like riding with your feet on the skid.  Also easier to drop grenades and such on bad guys.  I like rappelling from them much better that the Blackhawk as well.
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« Reply #76 on: September 23, 2015, 10:41:31 AM »
I could just imagine a video of this.

Hey, pig hunting!! I think we all have at least 1 M4.
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« Reply #77 on: September 23, 2015, 11:32:13 AM »

Yep You guys be ma' boyz,
HC/Bobby on the door guns
JR&Mike crew chiefs
Ken you are running PC (Production Control which is maintenance)
Duane will be safety sam. Someone get him a white construction helmet and mount a rotating beacon on it!
Bob, you have co-pilot
The rest of you memees are grunts. Your job is to get on, don't listen to a word we say, steal stuff while in flight, then jump out before I actually land and twist a few ankles!

Can we do that?

How can you expect me to door gun; and if its a Huey then there better be a 60 in a bungee cord; AND not fall back upon my former ways of grunt life? Nor expect HC to fall in line?
Ya,
Maybe I was expecting too much...

So did I ever tell you about this 1/75 Ranger NCO guy?

He was always in charge of something, and never wore a seat belt

Was always walking around with my crew chiefs yelling at him, but he didn't listen. A buck sergeant I think, and at the time I was a CW3. So he is always up on the flight deck looking around like he's George patton or something, and like usual I am yelling at him, but like usual, he can't hear and isn't listening to me.

He always chews tobacco. Did I mention I hate that abhorrent habit? Did I mention I hate it even more in MY aircraft?

So one day we are cruising a few feet above a junjle right beside a country we didn't like at the time and those Ranger guys were going to invade that country riding in my heli-co-peter. Well he ventures up into the front while we're flying along and sticks some of that self adhesive Velcro on the center console, then disappears. I picked at it trying to get it off, but I have my hands full navigating while the other pilot is wiggling sticks.

This knucklehead NCO comes back with a coke can...top cut off...wrapped with the other half of the Velcro...he's spitting into it...

Yea

Takes that can and sticks it onto that Velcro he attached IN MY AIRCRAFT and walks off.

Man when we landed I ate that young dude up one side and down the other. Of course even though he kept saying "Yes-Sir" He wasn't paying attention...

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« Reply #78 on: September 23, 2015, 12:41:06 PM »
NCO's...

And in his mind he was going

"pilots...  ::)"
So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are.  Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!

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« Reply #79 on: September 23, 2015, 04:09:17 PM »
I know what I would have don with that can,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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« Reply #80 on: September 23, 2015, 04:30:42 PM »
Heck, i'll even polish your boots just to get a ride. Don't know how I'd handle being shot at, but only one way to find out. Oh, and i'll even quit chewing!
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« Reply #81 on: September 23, 2015, 05:23:53 PM »
Someone say, pig hunting?  I'm IN!
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« Reply #82 on: September 23, 2015, 07:55:16 PM »
ken, you cant spit shine with cope.
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« Reply #83 on: September 23, 2015, 09:17:48 PM »
You sure Nate. I thought it worked fairly well on leather. lol
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