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Offline 944_Jim

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Re: Scarinzi Queen Build
« Reply #75 on: March 25, 2024, 08:18:35 PM »
Slow but steady. Yes, the balsa fuselage is tacked over the plan with a copy glue-stuck to the balsa. This is pinned to the cubicle wall so I can work a piece a day.
I'm not too sure I like the strut wire between the wings and may go with a plywood N strut on each wing tip. I'll attach wingtips once I know how I'm bracing both wings together.
The tail feathers and engine mount still need to be cut too.
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Re: Scarinzi Queen Build
« Reply #76 on: March 27, 2024, 11:50:38 AM »
Jim

Lookin’ good. What motor have you got in mind?

Wonder how Jeremy is doing? Sounds like he maybe has a youngster to take of? I know that my Queen got sidetracked by other life activities, so that can happen. Yet, mine’s on the table begging for attention!

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Re: Scarinzi Queen Build
« Reply #77 on: March 27, 2024, 01:23:37 PM »
Mr Dave,
I'm considering a PeeWee with custom 3d printed backplate and external tank.
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Re: Scarinzi Queen Build
« Reply #78 on: March 28, 2024, 04:31:40 PM »
Keep at it Jim!

Dave, I went flying last Wednesday, but it was too windy to maiden this little beastie!

I spent the session tuning my SV11.
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Re: Scarinzi Queen Build
« Reply #79 on: June 02, 2024, 09:04:25 PM »
Finally got the little Queen Bee out for a flight today. And fly she did.

Before I get into the bird, a fun note. My buddy Lester helped me launch. He was a friend of Larry Scarinzi and was excited when he heard this was one of his designs.

Performance is excellent. Run time is great on the little 1/4oz tank with the TD.020. Line tension with 10lbs 25ft Spectra lines is perfect for a calm day.

She's a real stinker to get fueled, but after a few mins futzing with a clogged needle, we had her starting nicely.

Flying, she loops inside and out beautifully and does a horizontal 8 very nicely. Inverted flight was no issue at all. Lands about like a set of car keys when the engine quits.

I flew two flights today as the sun was going down and then it was time to roll up the lines. My son shot a quick vid of the last flight. He caught a flat 8 right as the engine went sour and I flew the rest of the flight with the saggy engine.

I'm super happy with the little bird.

« Last Edit: June 02, 2024, 10:17:58 PM by Jeremy Chinn »
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Re: Scarinzi Queen Build
« Reply #80 on: June 03, 2024, 01:19:31 PM »
Beautiful, Jerry. She really stays out on the lines, to say the least!

Nice job on the filler pipe’s right angle bend in earlier pic. Don’t need too much elaboration here, but what’s your secret? Heat, weed whacker line, sand, ice, bender jig, luck?

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Re: Scarinzi Queen Build
« Reply #81 on: June 04, 2024, 08:53:06 PM »
Thanks much Dave. She's really fun to fly.

Regarding the brass tube, I used concave portion of a screwdriver handle that fit the tubing perfectly as a mandrel to bend the tubing around. Kinda like the old Harry Higley tool that I can no longer find.
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Re: Scarinzi Queen Build
« Reply #82 on: April 11, 2025, 07:59:29 AM »
Hi Guys,
Time flies more than my model airplanes. I'm about ready to cover my QB. I've been doing this build on coffee breaks at work. I hope to fly it some time this summer. I decided to add a few small spars to minimize swag between the ribs. I also plan to use Popsicle/Craft sticks as wing bracing. I expect the plane to be sturdy, especially as I tend to fly alone and over concrete. There is no intent to do soft-prangs into grass. I'm thinking I'll do the red-white "sun-rays" and scallops of the Lil Stinker, which is why mine has a canopy.

Things to do:
Make controls
Make fuel tank
Cover airframe.

Since this is a coffee-break-at-work build, I am considering drifting away from my typical "thinned-dope" stick-down of DocSpan.

I read the SLC thread, and am tempted to glue-stick the tissue, and cover with FredV4-gifted DocuLam. That leads to looking for clarification from the forum, please.

Is there a particular glue-stick I need?
Do I iron the tissue onto the glue?
How do I iron the SLC in the swag between the ribs?

Finally, a few "here are the bones."
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Re: Scarinzi Queen Build
« Reply #83 on: April 11, 2025, 08:00:45 AM »
I may have to re-size my images:
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Re: Scarinzi Queen Build
« Reply #84 on: April 11, 2025, 08:02:05 AM »
Well, now I know...less than 1 MB per post. I thought it was less than 1 MB per image.
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Re: Scarinzi Queen Build
« Reply #85 on: April 12, 2025, 07:19:55 AM »
With 1/2A's and .020's, Step One is to confirm that you have at least two good engines before going any farther.  These were cheap products made 60 years ago.

Of the several biplanes I've built I have always covered and painted the wings before final assembly.
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Re: Scarinzi Queen Build
« Reply #86 on: May 27, 2025, 07:30:46 PM »
So I've been kicking this one around for a while (not as long as a couple of my others). I need to use some Randolph Tautening Butyrate dope to take a bit of slack out of the tissue. I also need to come up with a way to jig the wing parallel to the ground plane in order to mount the fuselage with glued in stabilizer "on the zeroes." So that means I needed a jig that could hold by very little leading edge and trailing edge. So please find attached JIG 2.0. I say 2.0 because JIG 1.0 was a couple of popsicle sticks glued to a piece of plywood for securing a wing and profile fuselage at 90 degrees (my boys' Scientific kits from several years ago.

I busted out the mini drill press and mini table saw so I could make the repetitive cuts. The uprights are screwed down through big holes for adjustability. The blocks can be spaced using blocks of different sizes... hopefully for different wings. If I have this right, I should be able to dope both sides so the tissue pulls evenly. Either I make a few taco shells, or I'm getting closer to mounting wings!

I have no white dope, so this will be trimmed with red tissue and dope with white tissue wings and clear over the balsa fuselage. The looks should still evoke the Lil Stinker...we'll see.
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Re: Scarinzi Queen Build
« Reply #87 on: May 30, 2025, 08:48:29 PM »
Looks really good Jim! Should ‘Bee’ a lot of fun.
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Re: Scarinzi Queen Build
« Reply #88 on: May 31, 2025, 09:58:40 AM »
Lookin’ really fine, Jim. I like your approach to building, i.e., slow and small. We certainly get more bang for the buck! So, is masonite still being produced?

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Re: Scarinzi Queen Build
« Reply #89 on: May 31, 2025, 11:10:52 PM »
Mr. Dave,
I must have missed something. I've got this build on here and CEF. I've been asked that on both forums now.

For the record, I don't know if this is masonite...it is from scraps of projects way back. One side looks like it was squeezed on a window screen. The other side is dead smooth and shiny. I just figured it was thin MDF.
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