Warbird Information Exchange

Superb craftsmanship as usual in a completely different craft. Can't wait for the French gourmet demo!

Now that's something I can relate to. I have much more experience with wood lately than tin, 800 plus acres of wood to be exact. Scott your quite the craftsman. Paul what's your daughter starting up? All the best for her as well.

Scott I think you should consider developing a book down the road. There's far too much value here that should be in paperback as well.

Keep it going

M

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Mark,

She just graduated from college with a Retail Merchandising degree and is opening a small boutique featuring women's apparel and accessories and small home furnishings and accessories...kind of a vibe similar to the retail chain "Anthropologie". Good thing Scott can fab, design, build, remodel and fix anything from a Corsair, Indy Car, industrial art or a Victorian mansion.

Outstanding Paul about your young one, if she's anything like her ole man, she'll do just fine. Tell her to get that online store up and running as well. We'll then work on those west coast orders.

Perhaps she can add women's flight suits to her inventory as well.

Can Scott tackle Tuscany style mansions too?

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Ha, already been done, "The Great Imposter".

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Concept is actually working out nicely. Few more days and then can be finished and ready for installation..

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Outstanding work mister ... Where do I order "the great imposter"

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I believe that was a Tony Curtis movie based on the book of the 60's. I have nothing...

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Here's the latest from the "Cabinetree"

Drawer slide support rails.


Secret corner


Drawer supports rear view


Drawer faces


We got drawers

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Nicely done my man, nicely done. Paul's daughter will love it. You still doing your research on our little project? Take your time and keep me in the loop my friend I'm not hard to find, just look around here for me somewhere lol

Keep up the great work Scott

M

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Stained drawers and varnished



Total drawer varnished



Counter top mock up. Had to use red mahogany and jacobean stain to match the mottle of the tiles

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You da man Scott...any medium, any place, any time.

john

Meanwhile, back at the metal shop... So, I'll walk through a part of this conversion from Reno racer back to stock. One of the biggest mods the race team did was to move the location of the oil coolers and the configuration of the inlet and wing structure. The stock air duct opening lets/forces inlet air to the oil coolers, the intake, and the intercooler. Oil cooler air is partitioned off from intake air and is controlled with an oil cooler outlet door on each wing. When the doors are completely closed, there is still an outlet slot for the cooler air.

These sections of the wing are sub-assemblies that are removable from the center section. There is an upper section and a lower section. The oil cooler and the vane assemblies are mounted to the upper section, the lower section would be more considered as service access, I think as the mounts to the vanes are camlocs.

So here is the stock opening as you most are aware. You can see the open oil cooler door. I apologize for not having proper credit for the photos but I mean no harm.


Here is how the vanes and cooler are hung.


Here is the opening on the project aircraft.




A section of the new lower skin has been removed and you can see the new duct going to the oil cooler now mounted on the leading edge of the main spar. Here you can see the new lower skin and the modified oil cooler mount bracket.


This is the mount plate for the cooler. The saddle brackets had been cut and modified to mount on the spar.


So, rather than make new saddles complete, we decided to cut them apart and rework what we can.



This is the stock rear cooler saddle mount.


This, the forward.


Pattern time.


Next comes the actual welding fixture and to make the original style saddle mounts again.

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Thanks Scott
Really cool

Andy

Did they every fly the aircraft in that configuration? I wonder how much it (might have) helped? Sure looked like a clean installation.