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Both look great, and I agree agree with 34-40 the plane is amazing! Do you have any different pictures of the fuel tank setup or a wider angle shot, having trouble figuring out the orientation of things! Planes from the past fascinate me!

Originally Posted by stovens

Both look great, and I agree agree with 34-40 the plane is amazing! Do you have any different pictures of the fuel tank setup or a wider angle shot, having trouble figuring out the orientation of things! Planes from the past fascinate me!

the fuel tank in the pic is junk, total junk it will be recycled. I'll post as we build.

Your chassis looks great! The plane is looking awesome!

Ok here's another pic of the plane, ok its a poor pic.

Here's a couple pic's of the finished engine mount for the se5 plane. There are over 400 parts, washers, bolts, nuts, screws and brackets used to hold bulkheads # 1,2,and 3 together no wonder I was sick of working on this part. The truck is waiting for the new rack and pinion to come in, the pressure line seat was shot on the old one.

Nice work. Such a cool project, thanks again for taking the time to post photos

Got the Rack and Pinion for the truck. I'm using a T-Bird rack, new no rebuild. Have to paint yet. I also got my gas line run up to the carb. I used Aluminum tubing and covered it with a very thick shrink tubing that has heat activated adhesive on the inside and it bonded to the tube very well. Mounted the tubing to the frame rails with some aircraft grade adel clamps, just happen to fine some laying around the shop. I left the last foot or so uncovered as can be seen in the pic.

Originally Posted by Navy7797

I used Aluminum tubing and covered it with a very thick shrink tubing that has heat activated adhesive on the inside and it bonded to the tube very well. Mounted the tubing to the frame rails with some aircraft grade adel clamps, just happen to fine some laying around the shop. I left the last foot or so uncovered as can be seen in the pic.

I like your idea of shrink wrap on the thin wall aluminum fuel line! I have a roll hanging on the wall, purchased by the guy who started buying stuff for the '32, and I've been hesitant to use it fearing damage from a flying rock, or worse. Your shrink wrap sounds like a good approach. Mind sharing your source?

Originally Posted by rspears

I like your idea of shrink wrap on the thin wall aluminum fuel line! I have a roll hanging on the wall, purchased by the guy who started buying stuff for the '32, and I've been hesitant to use it fearing damage from a flying rock, or worse. Your shrink wrap sounds like a good approach. Mind sharing your source?

Here's a couple pic's from the label on the shrink tubing. I also measured the wall thickness at .030 . I got mine at local electronic's supply store.

Gas tank construction for the plane, pictures tell the story I hope.





right side

left side

top view
Still need to make the wrapper install gauge and tubing etc.
The cut/half moon shape is for the machine gun. Tank will also be pressurized aprox 2-3 psi, they didn't have fuel pumps.

More nice work!

Nice catch Roger, I missed the shrink wrap on the aluminium! What a great idea indeed. Might have to do that to the portion of line exposed on both ends of the frame body.

Cool baffles. Do you really have the lead slinger?

Originally Posted by firebird77clone

Cool baffles. Do you really have the lead slinger?

Only have a mock up for this plane but my boss has some of the real stuff from WW1 air craft. Its disappointing to me not to have the plane fully armed , after all it is a fighter.

That's really a great tutorial.. almost step by step on how to build a tank.

As always, thanks for thinking of us and sharing the info.