Now that's a good idea. Definitely stealing that! -- Mike Steinsland mikeskustoms@...

Eugen, now that I read your report, I have to correct myself. Airex C70.55 is definitely suitable for full vacuum. I was thinking about much lighter weight XPS foam. I did almost similar experiments

Thanks for the info on the painting positions. That is what I was thinking. One other thing I did was to set the fuselage level and then make a crate with wheels to hold the engine. Can move it back

Dear all, thank you for your comments and information, very valuable. So far the fist bulkhead FS 89 is ready and the vacuum bag is filled. At first I mixed resin with a lot of 40,5g and separate 20g

Make a Tic Tac Toe 2x4 frame and attach to the 4 motor mounts. You can set the fuselage on the nose or rotate on 45degree increments. Jim N46JP Q200 Sent from Outer Space

I made an appliance that attached to the engine mount and it allowed me to stand it up or put it right side up or upside down (with help of friends) depending on what I wanted to do. I can send

Any one have any interesting tricks for positioning the airplane to prime and paint. I am thinking of trying to partially stand the fuselage up to be able to access the bottom, and make some type of

I looked there too, Bruce, but I could not find their videos on vacuum bagging. Maybe they took them down. I remember them using a fish tank pump for vacuum. Cheers, Jay

Hey Sammy Hoskins had the Cozy Girls show us some light vacuum bagging at one of our Field Of Dreams events in Illinois. It was very interesting and may be what you’re looking for.

Gud deal! When you can Jerry.. I am generating the build manual...same as my previous life in aviation where this was part of my job. Build plans based on the projected mission goal of the

Eugen, I would be careful with vacuum bagging your parts. You're making quite a big change from the original building methods. The foam is not meant for full vacuum. And possibly it will absorb more

Hi Eugen, Don’t get too quantitative on your numbers. You want to make sure you have enough to fully wet-out the layup. More epoxy means more weight, but lack of epoxy means loss of strength, so

Thank you for the pics, Bruce! I very much enjoyed my time at the Field of Dreams reunion. I very much enjoyed getting to visit with everyone. This is one of the finest bunch of folks I've ever gotten

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The next time I pull the cowling, I’ll take some pictures of the race car fire suppression system. Unless I find pictures sooner. Jerry

Dear Q-community, the bulkheads of the Q1 are already cut and the worktable for vacuum-wrap is ready to go. After I study again the Quickie wokshop manual on page 3-11 in Step 7: Squeegeeing

Great Idea, thats even better than PRA, and with talk down thrown in at a fraction of the price. Its a wonder there isnt a Q200 in Florida with a similar set up. :-) Lots of

Sorry Richard, I misspoke. Should have said lidar altimeter. Very useful on landing. Calls out AGL to me as I round out and right down to touchdown. Kind of like having Buzz Aldrin sitting next to me

Thanks Jay , I will have a look. FN has the closing plates as well, always wondered how close the screw holes were to the tank wall. Precision radar eh, have you got

Thanks Jay. My goal is to get into the air as soon and as simply possible. May consider hot or cold venting for later conditions but nothing else unless there is a second project. The recording and