Warbird Information Exchange

I am saddened to hear of your loss.

You do have a very amazing talent, and do share it with someone else you find "special" that has the skills to learn it.

And thank you for posting all the wonderful things you have already contributed here!!

Sorry for your loss. You have taught many of us here quite more than you would know!

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A&P/I.A., A.A.S./Aviation Maintenance technology
Warbird salvage/recovery
One day I'll get that P-40!

Sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing all this amazing work with us!

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Magister Aviation
It's all in my book

I apologize if I unearthed your lost with my question...it was not my intention sir.

I am sure there is not a single day that goes by and you do not think of him......

My dearest sympathies to you and your loved ones......I know this pain all too well also.......

Sincerely.

Michel

Michael and all my WIX friends, please do not fret. Elliott's loss will always affect me but he is in my daily life. Little Bugger keeps hiding tools I was just working with... My point was that there are very few young people that want to learn this craft or even have a basic skill set.

Your support of this thread is meaningful enough and brings happiness to me.

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"There are old pilots and bold pilots but few old, bold pilots."

Had to make a new set of jaws for my 501 squeezer to reach down in these upper sections. Introducing, Deep Throat... $4 in material and some mill time.

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"There are old pilots and bold pilots but few old, bold pilots."

Turning LH buck into combo RH and LH.





Couple layers of matt and then filled with resin/cotton flock mix for thickness.

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"There are old pilots and bold pilots but few old, bold pilots."

Scott, I have been enjoying this thread from the beginning and continue to do so.

Great ideas and refined skills, producing amazing results.
Thanks for taking the time to post.

True craftsmanship.

Andy Scott

So here is how my RH/LH buck worked out. I mounted it to a base.



Then, I clamped the blank to the form and using both flow forming and the Pullmax with linear stretching to form the part.



Trimmed and fit.

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"There are old pilots and bold pilots but few old, bold pilots."

Continuing with the assembly of the new rib on the upper section...support rail assembly riveted in.



Rib fit



Riveted, next?

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Quick Tips n Tricks...

To thread on a lathe without trick die holding tooling...So, not my idea but a good one. Don't need an expensive tool in order to start thread dies square and straight. This is 1/2"-20. Use some threaded rod or a bolt cut off in the tail stock. Thread the die on that tail stock from the finish side of the die. Push the tail stock in to butt with your piece needing the threads. As you start to thread, the die comes off the threaded guide square and straight. Lock the chuck and thread by hand or using the lathe in back gear slow speed.

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"There are old pilots and bold pilots but few old, bold pilots."

Anyone having issues with Photobucket? That's what I use for images but can't log since last week for uploads. It gets in a log in page loop but stuffs with new advertising...thanks.

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"There are old pilots and bold pilots but few old, bold pilots."

Scott, I just finished watching Robin Miller's rundown of Christmas gifts, link attached. I think he mentions you in his Kevin Olson book summary. Kevin sounds like a real card and I am tempted to buy the book, even though I never heard of the guy until 15 minutes ago.

Corsair parts are loking great. Hope you can keep posting.


Here is the link: http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/13698 ... uggestions

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Rob C

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. “

– Michael Crichton

Yup. Have known Robin since the early 70's and Kevin is exactly as Robin describes. He once had Larry Nuber of ESPN believing he ran a light bulb rebuilding business in his spare time. Fans would send KO burned out bulbs. Kevin would replace them and return them to the fans.

Should be a great book. Waiting for mine to show up.

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"There are old pilots and bold pilots but few old, bold pilots."

Back on the air...here are the center inlet duct rib re-enforcing struts. I have one of four for each side that are original. The remaining three per side were lost in the race mod. The boss castings were lost as well for the most part, cut through with a sawsall. I made new ones by EDM, the green pieces.

The tubes start in two diameters, .875" and 1.000" and then had to be formed to elliptical profile. That was covered earlier in this thread. So, I had to figure out how to swedge the ends of these tubes.







The tubes are flattened on the center line of the edge ellipse. The light went on.. and I made a very simple tool.











So, of course, each of these tube assemblies have a different center to center length so I made a fixture at these print dimensions in order to drill the rivet holes accurately.







Next, they get heat treated and then assembled and painted. Stay tuned...

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"There are old pilots and bold pilots but few old, bold pilots."