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Latest Acquisitions Revisited!
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Heavens Eagle
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Cool acquisition James. The only aircraft that I am looking at these days is "possibly" the 1/32nd Grumman Duck, and the 1/35th Ka50 helicopter.
paddy
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Today i bought some turn buckles. I did this without thinking really but i have a problem. How do you attach the rigging wire to the turn buckle given that in 99% of cases the ringing attaches to the plain end with the eyelet attached to the wing or strut ? If i am going to us the brass tube method i might as well do the Bobs buckles method.
I am also a bit surprised just how bright and shiny and "metal" the rigging is in real life, anyone care to guess the dia ? I relealise these are not round
I am also a bit surprised just how bright and shiny and "metal" the rigging is in real life, anyone care to guess the dia ? I relealise these are not round
Heavens Eagle
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On (it appears) British aircraft some of the flying wires are cable. The really shiny ones are actually airfoil shaped rods that are being used and not cable.
If you look at the photo just above in Paddy's post, the bottom most "cable" is a real cable. The other 3 items are the airfoil shaped rods. Those don't actually do turnbuckles, but the ends thread on with a jam nut.
I think that the British were the only ones that actually did this while the German's, French, and Italian aircraft were all cables.
Also turnbuckles were only used on one end of a cable. In the photos I have looked at the turnbuckles are always placed at the most accessible end. For example, where a cable attaches to a bottom wing, or the easiest to reach. The rods were usually a pre set length with the ends threaded and both ends were adjustable and looked as in the photo above.
Here are a couple of photos of the Sopwith Camel at the Air Force Museum showing the ends of the rod mountings.
Here are some from a Spad
A Caproni bomber
And a German Halberstadt
Also it seems that American planes (Curtiss Jenny) had the airfoil rod set up as well.
If you look at the photo just above in Paddy's post, the bottom most "cable" is a real cable. The other 3 items are the airfoil shaped rods. Those don't actually do turnbuckles, but the ends thread on with a jam nut.
I think that the British were the only ones that actually did this while the German's, French, and Italian aircraft were all cables.
Also turnbuckles were only used on one end of a cable. In the photos I have looked at the turnbuckles are always placed at the most accessible end. For example, where a cable attaches to a bottom wing, or the easiest to reach. The rods were usually a pre set length with the ends threaded and both ends were adjustable and looked as in the photo above.
Here are a couple of photos of the Sopwith Camel at the Air Force Museum showing the ends of the rod mountings.
Here are some from a Spad
A Caproni bomber
And a German Halberstadt
Also it seems that American planes (Curtiss Jenny) had the airfoil rod set up as well.
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Paddy those aerodynamic bracing wires were very ridged, they were tighten by that nut back at the attachment point. What I've seen of the SE5 they didn't have the turnbuckles. I supposed Harry didn't have them either. Not the turn buckles like what Bobs are.
I haven't sorted out how I'm going to attach the wires on the SE5, just sorting PC10 right now.
I like the Gaspatch buckles better, while Bob's can be a bit more functional the Gaspatch stuff looks better.
I haven't sorted out how I'm going to attach the wires on the SE5, just sorting PC10 right now.
I like the Gaspatch buckles better, while Bob's can be a bit more functional the Gaspatch stuff looks better.
