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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
3" x 72" sheeting installed on both sides of the fuselage. Started fitting the stab sleeve and decided there was too much clearance. Made a new sleeve, light coat of Vasoline, one wrap of wax paper, three wraps of saturated cloth, a wrap of Cling Wrap, and cover with a piece of heat shrink...- TonyHallo
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
The 3/4" tube arrived yesterday and the stab sleeve was made. West System 423 low friction graphite powder was mixed with the epoxy used to saturate the glass cloth. This tube will act as the stabalator bearing. Making up 6 foot long pieces of sheeting for each side, these will run from...- TonyHallo
- Post #61
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
The sleeve slide right off the tube this morning, clean the wax paper and Vasoline out and it is ready to install. I used the full 72" long tube to triangulate the sleeve in the fuselage and set it level with a precision protractor. The sleeve is epoxied in and curing. Expecting the 3/4" stab...- TonyHallo
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
Too much!!! The welding is completed. The 1" wing tube arrived today so I made a wing tube for it. Light coat of Vasoline, two wraps of wax paper, two wraps of saturated glass cloth. Should have a finished tube in the morning. Sheeted the bottom back of the fuselage. I want to install...- TonyHallo
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Scale Nelitz 1/3 scale Cub build
Looks like a very nice chuck. So the chuck has a clutch?- TonyHallo
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
Made a jig for the nosewheel while watching glue dry. Need to get it TIG welded now.- TonyHallo
- Post #55
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
The 1/8" X 3" x 36" sheeting for this plane came from a Hostetler 30% Decathlon kit that I picked up for $100. This sheeting was put with the sheeting from a 30% Hostetler Chipmunk kit, each sheet was weighted, the weights ranged between 20 grams and 65 grams. I think there will be more than...- TonyHallo
- Post #54
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
While the glue is drying I worked on the nosewheel yoke. Decided to make a new yoke rather than scab pieces on the side. Need to grind the old yoke off and make a jig to hold while welding. Started to pre-bend the balsa sheeting- TonyHallo
- Post #53
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
I got the 3/4" tube from Dragon Plate https://dragonplate.com/Roll-Wrapped-Twill-Finish-Round-Tubes. I plan to make my own tubes out of fiberglass. Clearwater Composites has a large selection as well. I look around quite a bit online. Somewhere I read that the CF tubes are one and half times...- TonyHallo
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
Ordered a 3/4" OD carbon fiber tube for the stabalator. Was planning to use the old carbon tube from the original Cherokee but decided to order a tube with more wall thickness after doing some beam calculations, unfortunately I had to buy a 72" long tube to get the bigger wall thickness.- TonyHallo
- Post #49
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
Work continues on the fuselage stringers. The bottom and right side are completed, started working on the left side this morning. The formers have laser etched marks for the location on the stringers, of course they are mostly wrong so each stinger needs laid out individually with a square and...- TonyHallo
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
Was out yesterday morning flying with my friend Kenny, he was up in the air when this Sport Cub flew over low and waved this wing, Kenny landed his 35% Yak and the Sport Cub proceeded to land on the field, he was followed by Cub. Both pilots were flying cross county to North Carolina and...- TonyHallo
- Post #46
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
Silver brazed a thrust collar on and cleaned the remaining weld off. Block is installed and now I can frame it the stringers around the opening. The strut sticking out below the block in the photo will be shorten once the control mechanism is finalized. The original Cherokee had a rudder...- TonyHallo
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
Next flipped block over and milled the flanges for mounting screws. These are parallel to the milled side of the block. Finally with the mill set at a fixed height, rotated and clamped the block about the bored hole and put a crude radius on it. As you can see the little tubes are removed...- TonyHallo
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
Yea that's a Rambler for sure. Time to make the nosewheel bearing block. Started with a 2" x2" x 2" piece of material, for reference it weighted 212 grams before starting. Chucked up in the four jaw off center, drilled 1/2" through hole, then bored to .632", 002" clearance for the nosewheel...- TonyHallo
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
Say Mark, what model Piper? Don't think I've that one.- TonyHallo
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
While waiting for glue to dry decided to have a look at the nose wheel which I will need before I close up the bottom. The plans show Sierra hardware but I bought Robarts. I had 1/2" Robostruts on the original Cherokee and they held up very well over the 7 years of flying. I didn't care for...- TonyHallo
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
That is what the plans call for, probably a rectal pluck on Wendell's part. It was rather flimsy before the the balsa sheet was added. I would image it is standard for his designs. This is my first build using Hosteler plans. I have all the sheets fitted and now gluing both sides equally to...- TonyHallo
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
No lite ply yet, the sides are 1/16" birch ply and the firewall is 3/8" birch, the rest is balsa. More filling the sides with 1/4" balsa today.- TonyHallo
- Post #34
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Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% PA-28 Cherokee Build
The plans indicate that the sides from the firewall back to the third member get filled with 1/4" balsa sheet. I decided to use scrap balsa from the scrap drawer to do this so there is a bunch of small pieces of various sizes, just using up scrap material to the extent possible. Added the five...- TonyHallo
- Post #32
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