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PostPosted: Sat May 12, 2012 7:56 am 
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Just want to say you are great...like this topic so much...learning more ine here.
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Thanks for the kind words. We appreciate them. Today is Saturday so the team is already hard at work on the K. We liked the cookout last weekend so much, we are going to do it again this weekend. The smell of those burgers on the grill is just so enticing. Mouth is watering just thinking about it. Yall come see us at Meacham today! JR


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PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2012 6:30 pm 
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Hmmm... look like Darth Tristan is trying to take the O2 Lady's broom for a ride. He is also modeling the back of the new A26 Legacy Foundation's T shirt with Special Kay on the back. They changed over from Don Vogler's dad's A-26. We appreciate the support and cooperation we have received from Don and the Nimrods. If interested, you can order this T shirt or the Nimrod hat online at http://www.A-26Legacy.org. Just tell em JR sent you!!


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PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2012 6:37 pm 
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Here are our electrical genius's at work devising a new tester for all of the Circuit Breakers in the airplane. There are several needing replacement. With the tester they can check for continuity and whether the breakers are working as advertised. Nice to have help like this!! JR


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PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2012 6:46 pm 
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This is the new "What the heck is it" part of the week. I dunno either but the real JR says we need two of them. I think they have something to do with the oil cooler doors, but??? The Other JR


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PostPosted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:03 pm 
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Happy Birthday Clay, now get back to work!! That's what we told our metalsmith anyway. He is designing and building a rotisserie to set the horizontal stabilizer on so it will be easier to shoot the rivets for the leading edges. Yep, we are getting that close. The 42 D patch is just needing last adjustments before it is shot in and one rib finished so the leading edge can go back on the right stab. The left is waiting on one more doubler part to be fabricated. The rudder is all done and ready to hang when the vertical stab patch and gap seal is done. Can hardly wait. JR


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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:29 am 
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This is the new "What the heck is it" part of the week.

Servo motor?

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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 6:22 am 
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This is the new "What the heck is it" part of the week.

Servo motor?

Very close, but what does it do? JR


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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:58 am 
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A26 Special K wrote:
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This is the new "What the heck is it" part of the week.

Servo motor?

Very close, but what does it do? JR


Oil cooler flap actuator


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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 5:53 pm 
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That was the automatic servo actuated beer dispenser that dropped a cold beer in the crews hands after engine shut down. No, wait-that mod was deleted by the AF along with nose wheel steering. Darn, thought I had it!!

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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:39 pm 
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That was the automatic servo actuated beer dispenser that dropped a cold beer in the crews hands after engine shut down. No, wait-that mod was deleted by the AF along with nose wheel steering. Darn, thought I had it!!

Randy, that is a heck of an idea. I will bring it up to JR!! Thanks for the suggestion. See you soon! Be sure to let me know when you hit town. I will probably be around the hangar helping with the high altitude trainer that the local FAAST team is getting OK City to bring down for 4 days of training local pilots. Heck, it might even be a cheaper buzz than beer!! Can find out what your symptoms or lack thereof of hypoxia might feel like. It runs from Thurs... set up day... thru Sunday. Classes start on Friday. Take care and have a safe trip. The other JR


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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:43 pm 
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I think we have to give it to the B29flteng on his call about it being for the oil cooler door. This actuator opens and closes the door above JR's head to let more or less cooling air go thru the oil radiator. It is supposed to work automatically, but we have not gotten far enough into it to make it behave yet. It works in manual, but auto seems to be a mystery. I know... we need a bigger hammer! :-) The other JR


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PostPosted: Tue May 15, 2012 7:51 pm 
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Is this what they mean when we hear all that airport talk about "thru the fence"? Seems kinda silly to me that TSA should be all concerned about that. Some low lifes could easily cut thru the fence even if the gate was not there. It only takes two ladders even for old guys to get over the fence. I guess I just don't understand all of the in's and out's of "thru the fence" issues!! :-) JR


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PostPosted: Wed May 16, 2012 7:33 am 
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Tim is up on top of the wing wrestling with the oil cooler door actuator compartment trying to clean out 47 years of accumulated dried oil mist and crud. Funny how the house picks up a little dirt over the years when nobody is looking, isn't it? Well, it looks 100 per cent better now. JR is down below trying to figure out if we can save the actuator. It is binding a bit and so is the door itself. Bad combination. We have no doubts he will figure it out, but just in case, we have located some serviceable units, thankfully. Yall take care and come see us this weekend. There will be lots of activity here at Ft Worth Meacham airport on Saturday especially. The other JR


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PostPosted: Wed May 16, 2012 11:43 am 
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We disabled the automatic feature of the oil cooler door actuators on the B-29 in the event it fails in the closed position. All we have is manual operation.


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PostPosted: Wed May 16, 2012 12:28 pm 
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b29flteng wrote:
We disabled the automatic feature of the oil cooler door actuators on the B-29 in the event it fails in the closed position. All we have is manual operation.

Good point. We will have to find out what the failures modes are and if the door just stays where it is. We had a minor hiccup with that on one side during the ferry flight. Tribal knowledge did not get passed down how to manually operate it while holding the CB in. It didn't pop, but it didn't make good contact either unless pressed hard. The electrical genius's are working all of the CB's to see which one need to be replaced. I am favor of just doing all of them, but JR says we should do them as time and money permits. I have to agree because we need to get the airplane flying one of these days. Gee, I don't know what we will do when all we have to do it is fly it..... as if. :-) JR


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