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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Bodhi on November 30, 2004, 07:08:24 PM
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Thought you guys might enjoy a photo of a tail we just finished doing for a -4 Corsair.
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/514_1101862420_dscn3635.jpg)
Forward looking aft into the tail
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/514_1101862582_dscn3637.jpg)
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...
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Pretty neat Bodhi...
Whats the average weight of something like that, and the time to build?
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Very awesome, Bodhi
Let us know that F4U-4 is completely finish.......I'm looking forward to see that! :D
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(http://members.shaw.ca/cwharton/pics/alien.jpg)
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Nash, you're good!
Bodhi, very cool...... can't wait to see the final result.
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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 ?
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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?
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I could swear that last pic is of the latest Alienware 'puter
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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.
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Outstanding! Love to see the finished product when its completed.:aok
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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
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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.
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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
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Huh? Ya couldn't tell that it's just Bodhi's top picture with a few peices thrown in? Damn... I'm good. :)
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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.
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
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.
Well, zinc chromate is no longer zinc chromate... Most manufacturers have moved on to different colors, or in the case of the yellow tint, it is usually much more yellow. As for the f-16, the only times I have dealt with anything of of them was a few wings we aquired years ago, and they were a light grey inside on the structure. No yellows to be seen.
As I said before, I think it depends on the manufacturers mood and what paint was cheapest that month.
:D