Topic: I am bored again....this is not a good thing.

[kghost]

With the 400 project done and the frankenbike of at the oil tank specialist....

I'm kinda bored.....

SO I started dragging tanks down....

Might as well fix and paint a couple huh?

Or am I just twisted?

[rbmgf7]

nope, now you can send me two of those 750 tanks when you get them fixed 

i don't know if i caught this right, but there appears to be a plane in your garage/hangar?

[mystic_1]

Nice, can't wait to see how they turn out.

Or am I just twisted?

Perhaps, but you say that like it's a problem.   

mystic_1

[Johnie]

Maybe you should just fly around for a while...but first take those tanks off the wing...

[alltherightpills]

i don't know if i caught this right, but there appears to be a plane in your garage/hangar?

There are pics of his garage/hangar in the shop photo thread...

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=3953.msg29842#msg29842

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=3953.msg30559#msg30559

And I am wrenching on a concrete slab behind my house in the great out-of-doors.

[spdiii]

CG is a little off. Move fuel tanks forward

[kghost]

Maybe you should just fly around for a while...but first take those tanks off the wing...

CG is a little off. Move fuel tanks forward

The tanks are on the tail......

Yeah that would throw off the CG just a tad........

Anyways...this is why you always completely strip a tank before you paint it.....




Airplane Porn for the Aviation minded amongst us.....

[CALI500]

Nice tanks,  keep us posted once for sale...   If you are open for sales.

Also dig the plane,  my first ride working the throttle stick was in a 1941 Waco UPF -7 with the two tone blue and yellow get up.  got the fly bug now and working getting a plane by 45ish.  God/Wifie willing.    - love the motors on them...just a little hard breakin down in the air, it's not like pulling over and going to work on it. 

keep up the good work!
 

[spdiii]

Can you pull the dents on these tanks

[kghost]

Can you pull the dents on these tanks

YES

[spdiii]

I guess you can! you're the man!   I've thrown away tanks that did'nt look as bad as that one. You sir ,are an artist.

[kghost]

Nah just CHEAP!

[Artfrombama]

Gas weld a welding rod in the dent and then what?
What's your technique?

[kghost]

Gas weld a welding rod in the dent and then what?
What's your technique?

TIG.

I'd gas weld it but then you have serious distortion issues from the heat.

Then its the slide hammer...maybe a little massage from a shrinking hammer.

I have an aversion to bondo...but I'm a realist in that a wee bit of plastic filler generally has to be used.

Leaks Fixed....



Ready for some body work and Primer....





Rule of thumb is...when you get done...ya shouldn't be able to find the filler with a magnet.

[rbmgf7]

Gas weld a welding rod in the dent and then what?
What's your technique?

TIG.

I'd gas weld it but then you have serious distortion issues from the heat.

Then its the slide hammer...maybe a little massage from a shrinking hammer.

I have an aversion to bondo...but I'm a realist in that a wee bit of plastic filler generally has to be used.

Leaks Fixed....



Ready for some body work and Primer....





Rule of thumb is...when you get done...ya shouldn't be able to find the filler with a magnet.

see, i tried this technique once and when i started to pull with the slide hammer it just started to cone where the filler rod attached.

then insted of a slide hammer, i just tried pulling it by force but the gauge was too thick to budge it. sometimes the rod would give at the weld before i could pull it.

i try to stay away from bondo as much as possible too but can't help those itty bitty dents.

[greenjeans]

Glad to see somebody get bored like me.....

Where did you get the circular tank badges on that grey beauty ?   Me likey.

[mattcb350f]

Kghost officially has the most expensive work bench on the forum.

Fix the tanks up....sell um, and with the money you make fly that 210 up here and pick me up.. then we'll head out to BC in time for seweb11's garage warming party 

 Matt.

[kghost]

Kghost officially has the most expensive work bench on the forum.

Fix the tanks up....sell um, and with the money you make fly that 210 up here and pick me up.. then we'll head out to BC in time for seweb11's garage warming party 

 Matt.

Too funny ....it may in fact be the worlds most expensive work bench....

[kghost]

Tools....




Tank Number 2

[TwoTired]

Kghost officially has the most expensive work bench on the forum.

Fix the tanks up....sell um, and with the money you make fly that 210 up here and pick me up.. then we'll head out to BC in time for seweb11's garage warming party 

 Matt.

Too funny ....it may in fact be the worlds most expensive work bench....

Kind of a dusty one.  How do you keep that dust on it when it flies?

[kghost]

Kghost officially has the most expensive work bench on the forum.

Fix the tanks up....sell um, and with the money you make fly that 210 up here and pick me up.. then we'll head out to BC in time for seweb11's garage warming party 

 Matt.

Too funny ....it may in fact be the worlds most expensive work bench....

Kind of a dusty one.  How do you keep that dust on it when it flies?

It doesn't...it belonged to one of my good friends.....the one that had an affinity for crashing triumphs.

He passed away recently...so its kinda in limbo.