Topic: WW1 Hardware, Bits & Bobs Thread

Do you have a website chris ?

What about a switch all brass 1/2 scale?

What about a switch all brass 1/2 scale?

I made a brass one for my 1/3rd size pup but I dont believe they were all brass the base was bacolite I think, you can just make it out In the picture.

One like this

This is uncanny.
Last night I was down in Sheffield in my late Dads garage, looking for a crosspoint, and found this switch in a drawer.  He used these to add electric lights to my sisters dolls-house 50 years ago, its a working switch, so could be used for ignition or whatever. Its a gnats over the diameter of a 50p and if it will do the job its free to the first caller!
Cheers
Phil

 Xairflyer

  A bit like this you mean, lunchtimes are fun sometimes

chris

...if it will do the job its free to the first caller!

Sold to the man in the big green hat!
Cheers
Phil

hi Xiarflyer

  cant access PM,s at work,, go figure

  Chris

Is that a solid lump of brass?

almost i only made this one to test the tooling (i ground up a form tool) so it is a portly little gent, i will keep twiddling and see  what can be done with hollowing next one out, trying to scource some gold(brass coloured acrylic) to see what it looks like, also i have used Plastikote brass paint in past and very good it is (it contains brass powder) so will do a painted acrylic one too,

  chris

  ps if anyone is interested i have just completed a new(working sprung) U/C for my 1/3 scale Piper Tripacer, to convert it to a Pacer, they do this a lot with real ones, can do some pics and things iffn you want, also i have a part built 1/3 scale Cub U/C and having seen the price of one online from US  i might just finish it off and see if there,s acustomer out there,

chris

  ps if anyone is interested i have just completed a new(working sprung) U/C for my 1/3 scale Piper Tripacer, to convert it to a Pacer, they do this a lot with real ones, can do some pics and things iffn you want, also i have a part built 1/3 scale Cub U/C and having seen the price of one online from US  i might just finish it off and see if there,s acustomer out there,

chris

What a silly thing to say mate.  Of course we want pictures

Now you need to make a 30% tiggy one not a cub one. Have you not been listening 

Si

Si

have you got some drgs Si, +width of fus at mounting points i,m sure we can do something

  chris

Sold to the man in the big green hat!
Cheers
Phil

  thats no hat

  cj

What a silly thing to say mate.  Of course we want pictures

Now you need to make a 30% tiggy one not a cub one. Have you not been listening 

Si

Si

  Pardon     i,ll dig me camera out later Si,

  chris

some more tinkering , for a customer this time, pulsator in process

 on the left is the dome after turning and polishing ready to cut off,
in middle is freshly turned body
on right is body with bracket soldered on and dome just pushed in place, body still needs priming handle.

  sorry forgot to include some reference for scale these are 1/3 and dome is 3/8ths dia (9.5mm approx)

  Chris

Nice work Chris.   

How about boring up through the base so you can half fill it with tinted varnish otherwise the engine will seize due to lack of oil!

Alan

Booger!!   puppers

  just finished assembling them and not seen your thread, hmmm give it some thunking about, hey ho! here,s one i assembled earlier

  pump handle actually moves!!  how sad is that!!


  chris

I think these are completely over the top and unnecessary, only adding more clutter to the cockpit area, but would be very interrested to know when can I have one please Mister ? 

as it so happens Dave you can have one soon, i am 90% of the way through doing a cockpit for a guy, so i decided it was just as easy to do two, so i have a pulsator, ign/cutoff switches. rudder bar, control column, footboards and if required a seat, though seat not done yet.

 see control column below, again can be full animated from servo,s to give elevator and aileron movement    ZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzziiiiiP!!

  Chris

I think we need a "Builder of the model" rule 

Nice job Chris

Steve

I think we need a "Builder of the model" rule 

Nice job Chris

Steve

  Bah!!   Bumfa

chris

I think we need a "Builder of the model" rule 

Nice job Chris

Steve

That rule needs to be you cant build your own model 

Si

That rule needs to be you cant build your own model 

Si

 

Made I larf

just a few more tinkerings

  first is pilots foot boards for pup, former on the bottom and the pressed lithoplate finished item on top,
next is shown in place on mock up of column + mounts + boards. one on the left is the former, need more litho from home for next one.

  Chris

ok here we have the finshed control column, all stained and test assembled joystick is fulyl moveable elevator via cables and pully, and aileron via a slave servo, rudder to can be linked via scale cables to servo,s also, where,s me anorack.

   chris

Nice Chris, is the litho pressed over the former or does the former have 2 halves?

Steve

pressed over a former steve, if you see previos post the former is on the left of the assembly

  chris

i have been asked to do some custom made turnbuckles for a project, and during my searching for suitable taps and dies, i have come accross a site offering 2mm x.4mm taps and dies in LEFT hand thread, (also 2.5,3.5, BA,BSF,BSW loads in fact i aint looked at the complete list yet now my question is would there be any interest in 2mm rigging parts,eg clevises and turnbuckles, say for 1/4 or 1/5th scale as they are quite expensive 

  chris

Chris - I'd certainly be interested in a set of decent clevises for my 1/4 Tiger Moth. The same size might also be perfect for 1/3 Pup tails.

Gordon