Author Topic: Latest build... (Read 577 times)

Bodhi · « **on:** November 30, 2004, 07:08:24 PM »

Thought you guys might enjoy a photo of a tail we just finished doing for a -4 Corsair.

Forward looking aft into the tail

looking up into the tail where the tail gear retracts.

the paper (white paper on tail parts) is to protect the finish while we crawl in and out as we final fit components to the airframe. ohh and the black hoses in the upper picture are for a mule to test the tail retract... normally they run to the blue fittings to the left...

Hawklore · « **Reply #1 on:** November 30, 2004, 07:24:16 PM »

Pretty neat Bodhi...

Whats the average weight of something like that, and the time to build?

Rafe35 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 30, 2004, 08:40:14 PM »

Very awesome, Bodhi

Let us know that F4U-4 is completely finish.......I'm looking forward to see that!

Nash · « **Reply #3 on:** November 30, 2004, 09:45:27 PM »

NUKE · « **Reply #4 on:** November 30, 2004, 10:01:39 PM »

Nash, you're good!

~~Bodhi, very cool...... can't wait to see the final result.~~

Bluedog · « **Reply #5 on:** November 30, 2004, 11:31:49 PM »

Very cool.

Allways good to see a classic being lovingly restored.

Do you restore aircraft for a living Bohdi? or do you guys specialise in a certain component/system and then send it on to the next specialist to do his part and so on ?

Gunslinger · « **Reply #6 on:** December 01, 2004, 12:31:46 AM »

What's the deal with air craft raw metal being painted with that lime/yellowish primer? I see that all the time in air craft and I've allways been curious why that color?

Rasker · « **Reply #7 on:** December 01, 2004, 12:33:30 AM »

I could swear that last pic is of the latest Alienware 'puter

Bodhi · « **Reply #8 on:** December 01, 2004, 09:40:09 AM »

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Originally posted by Gunslinger
What's the deal with air craft raw metal being painted with that lime/yellowish primer? I see that all the time in air craft and I've allways been curious why that color?

that color is standard zinc chromate. It is the interior color as dictated by the -4's Processes Manual. It is a hideous color, but allows for ease of inspection when looing inside during recommended service intervals.

The also used a green tinted zinc chromate that is listed as cockpit green... but a lot of times especially as the war dragged on, the color painted was the color that they happened to have in stock.

The early 38's for example were done entirely in standard zinc chromate. The cockpit was done in cockpit green (green tinted zinc chromate). As the early J's began appearing the colors were changed on lockheed's assy line to green tinted zinc chromate, or cockpit green.

Republic mainatained standard zinc chromate through it's entire run for interior colors, as did NA for the Mustang with the exception of specific models.

If you need to know a specific interior color, let me know, and I will look it up in one of our processes manuals.

EN4CER · « **Reply #9 on:** December 01, 2004, 10:25:18 AM »

Outstanding! Love to see the finished product when its completed.

parker00 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 01, 2004, 11:24:30 AM »

Someone else asked to but, do you do this for a living or is this just like a hobby? Looks pretty cool either way, what else have you worked on?

68Parker

Bodhi · « **Reply #11 on:** December 01, 2004, 04:27:02 PM »

this is for a living.

I run a restoration shop in CO.

Too date I have done:

6 T-6's
2 B-25's
Mustang Empannage
P-38 booms and empennage
1 set Stearman Wings
1 Set control surfaces for TBM
multitude of other projects.

Nilsen · « **Reply #12 on:** December 01, 2004, 04:54:02 PM »

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Originally posted by Rasker
I could swear that last pic is of the latest Alienware 'puter

you dont have to swear... it is.

its their logo

Nash · « **Reply #13 on:** December 01, 2004, 07:06:39 PM »

Huh? Ya couldn't tell that it's just Bodhi's top picture with a few peices thrown in? Damn... I'm good.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #14 on:** December 01, 2004, 08:17:03 PM »

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Originally posted by Bodhi
that color is standard zinc chromate. It is the interior color as dictated by the -4's Processes Manual. It is a hideous color, but allows for ease of inspection when looing inside during recommended service intervals.

The also used a green tinted zinc chromate that is listed as cockpit green... but a lot of times especially as the war dragged on, the color painted was the color that they happened to have in stock.

The early 38's for example were done entirely in standard zinc chromate. The cockpit was done in cockpit green (green tinted zinc chromate). As the early J's began appearing the colors were changed on lockheed's assy line to green tinted zinc chromate, or cockpit green.

Republic mainatained standard zinc chromate through it's entire run for interior colors, as did NA for the Mustang with the exception of specific models.

If you need to know a specific interior color, let me know, and I will look it up in one of our processes manuals.

That's interesting cause they still use that on all unfinished aircraft metal. Pull panels on an F16 and that's what the frame underneith looks like.