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January 14, 2005 at 10:18 pm in reply to: Spitfire Cockpit Section #1422833

funhouse
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You, sir, are a genius!

Thank you for the kind words sir. But considering the talent on this forum, i find that more than a little embarrassing.

Dave

January 14, 2005 at 7:11 pm in reply to: Spitfire Cockpit Section #1423521

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Looks very nice – but playing Devils advocate, how about the dimmer screen that goes behind the gunsight mounting, and attaches to the back of the instrument panel! :diablo:

Cheers

Bruce

Bit of a delay on the reply Bruce.

Just one question for you Bruce if i may ask, was the original glass tinted on these ?.

Dave

December 30, 2004 at 10:32 pm in reply to: Spitfire Cockpit Section #1359304

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Just out of interest, but how are you funding this whole thing? Surely it’s gotta be, well, goddam expensive??

Sorry, missed this one Daz,
Probably not as much as you think. The material cost so far is £250. The biggest investment is time to make the parts for the project.The harness release gear below has 24 parts to the assembly.

Dave

December 8, 2004 at 1:04 pm in reply to: Spitfire Cockpit Section #1396816

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I would like to make a reproduction of the Sutton Harness for the project. I have some good reference photos of the various straps and fittings, but no dimensions. If anyone would be good enough to supply a few basic dimensions, i.e strap width or the pitch of the hole centers in the straps i can scale the rest in Auto CAD.
Thanks in advance
Dave

December 7, 2004 at 3:34 pm in reply to: Spitfire Cockpit Section #1398486

funhouse
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My project won’t (unfortunately) be pulling +6g at 450mph, Funhouse (Dave) will probably agree with me that what we are doing on our projects, is equivalent to prototype parts. Our tooling is considerably cheaper though.

Neither will mine 🙁 .
But you are correct on the tooling 🙂

December 7, 2004 at 3:09 pm in reply to: Spitfire Cockpit Section #1398634

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Mark V,
your post was taken in the same sprit it was sent 🙂 .
Dave

December 7, 2004 at 2:53 pm in reply to: Spitfire Cockpit Section #1398671

funhouse
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Really? Who exactly? 🙂

Mark V,
The list is very long, take your pick sir. Any of the restoration groups that do this work 🙂 .

Dave

December 7, 2004 at 1:41 pm in reply to: Spitfire Cockpit Section #1398834

funhouse
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Your welcome 🙂 .

December 7, 2004 at 1:16 pm in reply to: Spitfire Cockpit Section #1398868

funhouse
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Funhouse

Looking at your seat. Have you used pop-rivets, or solid csk/mush-head type?

If they are the counter-sink head type. What chamfer angle are you using, as I am just about to do a load of solid rivetting, and haven’t the correct cutter yet?

On the seat i used pop rivets, then made up a small rivet set to round over the end of the rivet.
As for the C/Sink angle the book i have “Standard Aircraft Handbook” states 100 degrees as the angle.
Hope that helps,
Dave

December 7, 2004 at 12:37 pm in reply to: Spitfire Cockpit Section #1399020

funhouse
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galdri,
Thanks for the kind words, but there are guys out there who do this far better than i ever can.
Thanks for taking time to visit the website.

Dave

December 7, 2004 at 11:55 am in reply to: Spitfire Cockpit Section #1399067

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gnome,
The vision system will be based on a projector and wrap around screen. We have made a small modification to get the real Artifical horizon working from a piece of software. The software will be used to drive the other instruments and interface with the flight sim (i hope).

HP 57,
The first seat was just a ply wood mock up made from a couple of photos i found. But i managed to get a drawing, so re made it. From my understanding, the flare rack on the seat front was only used on Seafires. but as i have sat in a MkV which had the flare rack mounted on the seat, it’s staying put 🙂 .

Thanks for the interest
Dave

December 7, 2004 at 2:09 am in reply to: Spitfire Cockpit Section #1399832

funhouse
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A small update for those interested on the spitfire project. A new build pilots seat and the de-icing tank and hand pump.

Dave

November 1, 2004 at 7:51 pm in reply to: Spitfire or Hurricane replica ? #1352513

funhouse
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Does anybody here know the approximate cost of a Spitfire or Hurricane replica ?

…….And a link to a relevant website ?

You could always build your own. I’m only building the cockpit section, frame 5 to 13.
Spitfire Project

October 13, 2004 at 10:29 pm in reply to: Spitfire Cockpit Section #1391014

funhouse
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Looks very nice – but playing Devils advocate, how about the dimmer screen that goes behind the gunsight mounting, and attaches to the back of the instrument panel! :diablo:

Cheers

Bruce

That’s already in hand Bruce 🙂

October 13, 2004 at 11:54 am in reply to: Spitfire Cockpit Section #1392858

funhouse
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Hi chaps,
well i got the gunsight mount finished and also made the early type gunsight, problem is i am getting a double image on the glass, i think this is due to the glass not being “coated”,

any ideas ? ,
thanks, Dave
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