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Skyediamonds1985	Guillows 1903 Wright Flyer	Build	26-Jun-15 22:55
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For the carburetor I used a soda straw and a small ring from (again) an arts & crafts store. The small ring serves as a "lip" to the top of the carburetor.
Skyediamonds1985	Guillows 1903 Wright Flyer	Build	26-Jun-15 22:53
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Using the small chains purchased at the arts & crafts store, glued the appropriate sized gears to small copper wiring used as a drive shaft
Skyediamonds1985	Guillows 1903 Wright Flyer	Build	26-Jun-15 22:50
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While at the local hobby store, also purchased various sized plastic gears
Skyediamonds1985	Guillows 1903 Wright Flyer	Build	26-Jun-15 22:47
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Just prior to gluing the cylinders I wrapped each with a thin slice of silkspan to give them a textured look. Also took a small 10mm (I think) dia, wire for the oil line. And used a couple of small slices of tape for the connection at the oil line as shown on the real engine.
Skyediamonds1985	Guillows 1903 Wright Flyer	Build	26-Jun-15 22:43
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Sorry about the confusion on classifying the aircraft. Still new at this posting. I purchased small springs from arts and crafts store and cut small sections of copper wire for each cylinder.
Skyediamonds1985	Guillows 1903 Wright Flyer	Build	26-Jun-15 22:41
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This is one of many photos I managed to obtain that left the engine in its natural metallic finish as opposed to painted black. I opted to take this route to show the detailing.

Hangar	Aircraft	Category	Date	Preview
Skyediamonds1985	Herr Engineering Ryan ST-A	Parked	26-Jun-15 22:37
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Rather than simply marking the cooling holes, I decided to allow my OCD (just a small part, mind you) run a bit wild and used a pine vise to drill out the holes.
Skyediamonds1985	Herr Engineering Ryan ST-A	Build	26-Jun-15 22:34
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Using tubular plastic purchased at a local hobby store (only 35 miles from where I live) to cut up the cylinders for the engine. All sizes were from careful use of the retinae supplemented with glass protection (eyeballs), resulted in pretty close tolerances..
Skyediamonds1985	Herr Engineering Ryan ST-A	Build	26-Jun-15 22:25
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Now gluing the plastic card onto the top of the engine.
Skyediamonds1985	Herr Engineering Ryan ST-A	Build	26-Jun-15 22:23
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Where was I? Oh yeah. Building the Wright Bros' engine. Here to make the flat plate on top of the engine. Used a T pin to push out the rivets on the other side.
Anders	Guillows Series 400 - BF 109	Parked	26-Jun-15 20:50
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Love the wings, easy to build and plenty of area to carry the RC gear
Anders	Guillows Series 400 - BF 109	Parked	26-Jun-15 20:47
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Guillows Albatros D5A. Most of the kit wood was impossible to work with, all the formes etc were outlined on new balsa and cut. Elevator added for Rc.

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