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August 30, 2015 at 8:44 pm in reply to: Taper pins wanted (5/16") #896237

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Hi Elliott

I’ll have a look next time I’m at the workshop although this might not be till next weekend

John

August 21, 2015 at 10:09 pm in reply to: Stirling Project Update #906748

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Funnily enough Rob, I’d actually say that we’ve had access to more original parts recently than for a long time so things are looking up a bit. We’ve also had a lot more offers of help from people/organisations offering to make parts as well 🙂

we’ve been very fortunate on that front

John

August 21, 2015 at 10:04 am in reply to: Stirling Project Update #907398

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Hi Rob

I’d like to think that we have a formal plan, but as you say it’s often a case of as and when.

Currently the Project has the following ongoing work:

1. Draw up the bomb bay structure
2. Design the fuselage jig in conjunction with 1. above
3. Finish off the flight deck components.

In reality we are working on the smaller stuff whilst the ‘big’ stuff is getting designed behind the scenes. Once the ‘big’ stuff is ready to be realised, it’ll be all hands on deck sorting out the manufacture of the individual components and working out the logical sequence of how it will all go together

John

August 21, 2015 at 9:15 am in reply to: Stirling Project Update #907526

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Noting that some of the other projects on here have the occasional CAD updates, we’ve just had the trim box assembly modelled up using original drawings as the basis. The results are below and we will be getting the individual components 3D printed ready for casting.

August 17, 2015 at 2:00 pm in reply to: Stirling Project Update #911229

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Thanks Guys, we really feel like we’re getting somewhere now.

August 17, 2015 at 11:58 am in reply to: Stirling Project Update #911376

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As promised at post #563 above, the project has now started to make some concrete progress towards building the bomb bay structure. Courtesy of Marshall Land Systems, they have laser cut one of the outer bomb bay frames for us as a proof of concept, the photo below shows the finished result, the observant amongst you will see that there’s a small crack in one of the flange radii but this was due to an over zealous operative at our end hitting the former too hard which caused a stress raiser:rolleyes:. As a trial effort though it has gone pretty well and hopefully in due course we’ll be getting the other (45!) such frames made in a similar way.

(Edit – now includes a pic of how it’ll all fit together in the build jig)

John

August 15, 2015 at 8:44 am in reply to: Stirling Loss 21/11/44 #913096

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Hi Dick

I’ve sent you a Private Message

cheers

John

August 13, 2015 at 5:53 pm in reply to: Stirling Project Update #914666

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Thanks for the encouragement guys, it’s been a long time coming but it’s really gratifying to see it permanently assemble.

Hopefully, another update next week will bring some news of another encouraging development which will bring us much closer to building proper fuselage structure;)

John

August 13, 2015 at 11:04 am in reply to: Stirling Project Update #915142

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Hi all

At long last we’ve got some paint on and pretty much assembled the 2nd Pilots seat beam assembly. The rudder pedals are still being worked on as is the Sutton Harness adjustment mechanism.

Next step, the 1st pilots seat beam 🙂

July 22, 2015 at 7:03 pm in reply to: Odd Short Stirling image #853292

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Quite correct Mahone, there’s more about it in our dedicated thread. With the current state of Russian/western relations I doubt that this story will be added to any time soon.

John

July 21, 2015 at 4:01 pm in reply to: Production quality and finish #854241

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Even the Jaguars had discrepancies on it’s construction……………………..

They certainly did around the extreme back end as that area wasn’t fully jig built. The wings had a number of concessions on them as well.

However, when they changed Frame 25 on XX847, RSS used a purpose built jig based on the original build jig for the centre fuselage, IIRC only one of the nodes failed to line up out of approximately 12 or so. be interested to know where else was a problem though

July 17, 2015 at 10:23 am in reply to: Stirling Project Update #858374

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We will certainly endeavour to do so 🙂

July 17, 2015 at 8:46 am in reply to: Stirling Project Update #858422

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A quick update to show some parts from LK488 and EE975 that have been donated to the Project by Ian Carter. Some interesting items which we’ve identified are the throttle box cams, the remains of an ellevator trim tab and the casting from the Flight Engineers fuel valve mounted at the forward spar. The latter is slightly damaged but certainly good enough to either repair or make good enough to use as a pattern.

John

July 16, 2015 at 5:57 pm in reply to: Lancaster construction question #858815

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I’d guess that it’s riveted Paul

John

July 7, 2015 at 6:30 pm in reply to: New addition due at Hendon? Chipmunk moving? #868223

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Or a Jag……I’ll get my coat:rolleyes:
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