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Offline roger

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leather fillets
« on: June 25, 2010, 06:02:06 PM »
anybody ever try these? and where do i get them?

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Re: leather fillets
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2010, 10:35:58 PM »
Roger ,

Check in the Classified forum , on this site .

Under "Windancer Models" (Bill Sawyer) .

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Re: leather fillets
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2010, 05:53:19 AM »
I have used leather fillets on a couple of my models and like them.  I got some from Bill Sawyer and some from Walter Umland.
 I don't have an e mail address for either, but you should be able to get that info in the members column.
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Re: leather fillets
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2010, 07:57:52 PM »
i went thre and saw no leather!!!!!

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Re: leather fillets
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2010, 08:22:10 PM »
Just buy them from Bill or Walter. Support the people who support the hobby. Bill includes instructions on how to install them. He uses CA but I have had luck applying them with thinned Tite-Bond.  8)
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Re: leather fillets
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2010, 07:50:58 AM »

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Re: leather fillets
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2010, 11:40:56 AM »
Tight wads like me.  Always trying to save pennies and then spend dollars to fix. LL~ LL~ LL~Really we need to support our suppliers. H^^
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Re: leather fillets
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2010, 07:48:36 PM »
Leather fillets do work great.  As do fillets made from balsa!  (of course, the balsa takes more time and patience).  The leather fillets are real easy to work with.  Titebond, CA, Ambroids, Elmer's Glue All, Duco, etc., etc., will glue them on!  Take you time where the fillets meet on the LE of the wing and stab, fitting the two end pieces together nicely isn't hard, but could be tricky the first time you use them.  They look really good, are easy to apply, and accept all types of paint.

The leather fillets (IMHO) are great on OTS planes, and such! They really look good on them.  I do use the blue Super Fil (I *think* that is the correct name, the jars are in the basement! LOL!!) since I feel it is a stronger fillet on my bigger planes.  Maybe, maybe not! LL~ But it is an epoxy like material and seems like it should be stronger to me, but I ain't no "injuneer", or scientific type! LL~ LL~

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Re: leather fillets
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2010, 09:54:24 PM »
I used Bill Sawyer's (windancer) leather fillets on this little (35.5" span) profile scale model.  Attached them with Duco cement at both the wing/fuselage joints and wing/nacelles joints.  They worked great...are inexpensive...and, as noted above, come with complete instructions.
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Re: leather fillets
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2010, 09:57:25 PM »
I used Bill Sawyer's (windancer) leather fillets on this little (35.5" span) profile scale model.  Attached them with Duco cement at both the wing/fuselage joints and wing/nacelles joints.  They worked great...are inexpensive...and, as noted above, come with complete instructions.

Uncle Mikey!

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN HIDING? ;D  Great to see you here, and you, and the plane, look great.

A Vietnam era A-26?

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Re: leather fillets
« Reply #10 on: July 09, 2010, 06:13:08 AM »
Bill:
   I haven't been hiding...just been more involved with artwork than modeling lately.  Yes, that's a Vietnam-era A-26.  It's a Pat King design (plans available from him) representing the ones flown by the 609th Special Operations Squadron based at Nakhon Phanom, Thailand, c.1968-69.
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Re: leather fillets
« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2010, 10:05:48 AM »
I've reported on leather fillets several times.  I've found the best way to install them is by first wetting the leather, then glue them down with Ambroid.  When the Ambroid sets, the leather is still somewhat wet.  At that point, burnish them with a round tool, such as a ball bearing welded to a scrap of steel.  This makes the leather truly concave, which looks better.  A bit of Brodak filler, applied thickly with a brush, will blend in the edges.

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Re: leather fillets
« Reply #12 on: July 09, 2010, 12:14:44 PM »
I've reported on leather fillets several times.  I've found the best way to install them is by first wetting the leather, then glue them down with Ambroid.  When the Ambroid sets, the leather is still somewhat wet.  At that point, burnish them with a round tool, such as a ball bearing welded to a scrap of steel.  This makes the leather truly concave, which looks better.  A bit of Brodak filler, applied thickly with a brush, will blend in the edges.

Floyd

Great tip, Floyd.  Never thought about wetting the leather!  Learn new all the time. ;D

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