CAD - cardboard aided design. LOVE it, Nick!! I see the Ford engine is coming along very nicely indeed. If you wanted to stiffen up the valve chest cover a mite, you could rivet a narrow piece of channel across most of its length, and it wouldn't add a lot of weight. I've done similar fixes in the long ago, LOL. Today, I'm opening up an ancient water well on the property, so I can keep the gardens happy without having to use heavily chlorinated and treated municipal water. I hope I don't get caught!! Have a great day, and thanks for the video! Would you give us a wing waggle next time you're flying out of Toronto above Newmarket? I'll be watching! 😁 👍
I could have cut the steel sheet a little larger and folded a 90 degree bend on the bottom and side edges. That would have stiffened the panel considerable. However, Tiger Seal is a tremendous bodge! A clean well is jolly useful, especially if your water is metered.
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair What do you suppose happened right after I filled the barrel with fresh well water? RIGHT!! A thunderstorm. Unpredicted, of course. Hope you had a great Father's Day, Nick!!
@@kbjerke I did have a nice Father’s Day; spent most of it thrashing a Cessna 152 around Bodmin (flying lessons) and then opened my present. A garden rake, most useful indeed, and a card from my children wishing the ‘silly old fool’ a Happy Father’s Day. They know me too well 🤣
Very informative, thank you for all the details. as a teen I would devour everything I could about the Pietenpol, spent many afternoons dreaming of building one. I find repro parts from far off lands hit or miss, but I always change out the fasteners for better quality. Seems like every time I torque to the specs one or two fail, then I remembered an old experience. Years ago, the company I worked for had its production in China, Inox was specified and the production articles validated, then months on we would get complaints and returns with corroded screws, manufacturer would apologize for the slip up and things would be good for a short time and the the returns would start again, this happened over and over again, the manufacturer was replacing the screws with the lowest quality they could get away with just to save a few cents. Later I found out from other engineers that this was a very common issue.
G'day, Fascinating..., thanks for posting this..., all I know is that after Dad recovered from the broken arm he acquired by trying to crank a Model-T with his thumb on the wrong side of the handle....(!) ; he pulled the first Model-A in town to pieces 3 times, and after each reassembly it started and ran, so my grandfather put up a sign reading, "All Automotive Repairs.", in 1927 when dad was 16..., and in '28 they added, "Armature Rewinding & Generator Repairs". My brother was a PMG Tephone Line-Technician who went to Ericson & worked globally (the joke being that our fathers' name was Eric !), I'm the Line-skip link, and my son is the town's Auto-Electrican - when he bought out his boss he got my father's Electrical Test-Bench, which dad made in 1928..., as part of the deal...(!). So I always wondered quite how complicated the Model-A was, for the old man to be delving into at age 16... Now I'm getting a bit of an idea... As a "Contra-Deal", please feel free to backtrack me and enjoy the Bluesky Dome and lighting I captured last week on the back roads from Deepwater to Yarraford (29km at 31 km/hr on the Electric Motocross Bike)... I'd been awaiting the correct day, and kinda planned the Start-times for the Sun-angle - and though the Shadows of roadside trees made Flicker-Vertigo a possibility, it's a pretty good little Showcase of the view from Rural Tertiary Dirt Roads, atop the New England Tablelands of New South Wales... Sort of the flipside of the previous week's run along the Highway into Town... After the trousers for my Evil Knevil Suit finally arrived, now - for the gap between Collar & Helmet..., I'm actually about to break out my White Silk Scarf, which hasn't had a genuine working Outing since 1992 - when I wore it to fly over the Fence, inverted at 5 ft altitude, while going backwards, after failing to clear the Post... In fact, considering that vibe - perhaps I might be better to first try it with my mother's father's white silk scarf instead ; which he used in 1917 while taking his Ticket in the Curtis Jennies at Williamtown..., before being taught to fly again (the Military way !) in England - if his Shade is connected to his Scarf then he can come along for the ride , while sealing the Neck-Gap where the wind is otherwise quite biting. Riding a little slow electric Motorcycle is like the the bit of time between flaring after crossing the fence, and touching down on the ground, in an Ultralight Motorglider... One's bum is at the same altitude, the Airspeed in the face is the same (30 mph), and the squiffiness of Yaw & Roll (but no Pitch input beyond Weight-Shift...) is similar to landing in a Crosswind - coupled with the absolute neccessity of tracking precisely within Inches of the intended Groundtrack...; within the foot of clearance from the Guardrail to the left, & the overtaking Traffic on the Right, all made challenging by Random Crosswinds sprinkled in from the Trucks, Busses and B-Doubles... Dirt Roads with potholes, corrugations and almost no traffic are much more recreational...; going out on the the Highway = riding onto the Tarmac Arena, apparently. Flying is definitely "safer" than motorcycling, it seems, squeaking from my vast 30 hour mountain of inexperience ; where every impression is sharp & spiky with newness... Keep on keeping on, Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
I like your electric motorcycle; as you rightly say, it’s a great compromise between an electric bicycle and an electric car (far too expensive and generally useless). My great uncle designed the Jenny 🙂
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair Wow ! Your Ancestral Pteradactyl was much more influential than the Early Birds in my Family Tree then...; yikes - if he designed the Jenny, does that make him Glen Curtis himself, or one of the Team under his direction in the Drawing Office. I put in 4 X 1 Km rides on my old Electric Bicycle today, it's first time using the Track left by 17 hours on the Electric Brushcutter - following a Bulldozer at a distance of 33 years...; to unload the Batteries before maintenance-charging them. The first run took 5 minutes, average speed 13 Km/hr, & a max. of 18...the final run was 19 km/hr average with a max. of 26...; Full Twistiness, pedalling to help any time the speed fell below 15 or so... And all 4 of the Batteries took 50 minutes each to recharge.... The Sting is an order of magnitude above the Discovery...(!). In town, on a smooth road, where the Traffic is limited to 50 Km, then yeah ; an electric Bicycle would be great..., provided one has the discipline to keep the Logbook written up on the Battery/Batteries, and rotates the "Duty Battery" from Bike to Charger to Shelf of spare, charged units. I was fantasizing about eBike Grocery-runs towing a Bicycle-Trailer, so my plan involved setting out with a full Battery in use, & 2 more in the Pannier Bags - one to get to town, one to get around town on, and another one to get home on ; with what was left in the first two, available to help get the Groceries home, and thus rotate the 4 Batteries to extend their Calendar Life by spreading the 2 or 3 trips per week across 4 Batteries. It isn't linear, but operated as such, the Batteries might perhaps last twice the Calendar expectation (?) Time will tell, Such is Life... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair Wow, 1911 really is super early on in the First Golden Age. Before Aeronautical Beaurocracy had Bin-Invented... (lol !). Keep on keeping on ,! ;-p Ciao!
Real interesting. Glad to see you refer to the Zeus engineering hand. Every apprentice was given one, in my case some 55 years ago. Cheers from New Zealand.
This term intrigued me so I looked in to it further. Unfortunately (or fortunately) the Zeus Company are a manufacturer of bionic hands and this dominates searches. I imagine that your 55 year old Zeus hand refers to something different.
@Robutube1 yes, very different. It is a quick reference engineering handbook. Information like threads, drill sizes, pitch circle calculation, and the pages were coated to protect them from dirty fingers.
Years ago I got the then teenage getaway driver to put the Zeus book through the scanner as well, so I always have a digital copy with me on my ipad. Very useful in the hotel room drawing office. Today's exercise is sketching up an ignition system for the Ford.
Fantastic ideas to make the oiling system work much better!! Will incorporate some of those ideas into the A engine with the exhaust seat crack after I get a new insert valve seat installed. Fun to watch you work on stuff!
Excellent, it's a shame it won't fly, but I understand why. A quick tip, use a step drill to drill thin sheet metal, it wont jam in the helix and as a bonus deburrs the hole.
Step drills are a recent discovery for me. I have one but only use it on non ferrous materials; I suppose I should run to spending ten bucks on another for ferrous materials only. Cor, how extravagant!
" you didnt come here for quality, you certainly arent going to get any" 😂😂😂
🤣🤣
CAD - cardboard aided design. LOVE it, Nick!! I see the Ford engine is coming along very nicely indeed. If you wanted to stiffen up the valve chest cover a mite, you could rivet a narrow piece of channel across most of its length, and it wouldn't add a lot of weight. I've done similar fixes in the long ago, LOL. Today, I'm opening up an ancient water well on the property, so I can keep the gardens happy without having to use heavily chlorinated and treated municipal water. I hope I don't get caught!! Have a great day, and thanks for the video! Would you give us a wing waggle next time you're flying out of Toronto above Newmarket? I'll be watching! 😁 👍
I could have cut the steel sheet a little larger and folded a 90 degree bend on the bottom and side edges. That would have stiffened the panel considerable. However, Tiger Seal is a tremendous bodge! A clean well is jolly useful, especially if your water is metered.
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair What do you suppose happened right after I filled the barrel with fresh well water?
RIGHT!! A thunderstorm. Unpredicted, of course. Hope you had a great Father's Day, Nick!!
@@kbjerke I did have a nice Father’s Day; spent most of it thrashing a Cessna 152 around Bodmin (flying lessons) and then opened my present. A garden rake, most useful indeed, and a card from my children wishing the ‘silly old fool’ a Happy Father’s Day. They know me too well 🤣
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair Spectacular!!! 👍
Very interesting and calming at the same time.
I like being a cure for insomnia!
I just learned this a while back Hoopman is pronounced Hopeman. Great video Nick.
Every days is a school day 🤣
Very informative, thank you for all the details. as a teen I would devour everything I could about the Pietenpol, spent many afternoons dreaming of building one. I find repro parts from far off lands hit or miss, but I always change out the fasteners for better quality. Seems like every time I torque to the specs one or two fail, then I remembered an old experience.
Years ago, the company I worked for had its production in China, Inox was specified and the production articles validated, then months on we would get complaints and returns with corroded screws, manufacturer would apologize for the slip up and things would be good for a short time and the the returns would start again, this happened over and over again, the manufacturer was replacing the screws with the lowest quality they could get away with just to save a few cents. Later I found out from other engineers that this was a very common issue.
Yes, we’ll see how my £65 of foolishness works in a while!
G'day,
Fascinating..., thanks for posting this..., all I know is that after Dad recovered from the broken arm he acquired by trying to crank a Model-T with his thumb on the wrong side of the handle....(!) ; he pulled the first Model-A in town to pieces 3 times, and after each reassembly it started and ran, so my grandfather put up a sign reading,
"All Automotive Repairs.", in 1927 when dad was 16..., and in '28 they added,
"Armature Rewinding & Generator Repairs".
My brother was a PMG Tephone Line-Technician who went to Ericson & worked globally (the joke being that our fathers' name was Eric !), I'm the Line-skip link, and my son is the town's Auto-Electrican - when he bought out his boss he got my father's Electrical Test-Bench, which dad made in 1928..., as part of the deal...(!).
So I always wondered quite how complicated the Model-A was, for the old man to be delving into at age 16...
Now I'm getting a bit of an idea...
As a "Contra-Deal", please feel free to backtrack me and enjoy the Bluesky Dome and lighting I captured last week on the back roads from Deepwater to Yarraford (29km at 31 km/hr on the Electric Motocross Bike)...
I'd been awaiting the correct day, and kinda planned the Start-times for the Sun-angle - and though the Shadows of roadside trees made Flicker-Vertigo a possibility, it's a pretty good little Showcase of the view from Rural Tertiary Dirt Roads, atop the New England Tablelands of New South Wales...
Sort of the flipside of the previous week's run along the Highway into Town...
After the trousers for my Evil Knevil Suit finally arrived, now - for the gap between Collar & Helmet..., I'm actually about to break out my White Silk Scarf, which hasn't had a genuine working Outing since 1992 - when I wore it to fly over the Fence, inverted at 5 ft altitude, while going backwards, after failing to clear the Post...
In fact, considering that vibe - perhaps I might be better to first try it with my mother's father's white silk scarf instead ; which he used in 1917 while taking his Ticket in the Curtis Jennies at Williamtown..., before being taught to fly again (the Military way !) in England - if his Shade is connected to his Scarf then he can come along for the ride , while sealing the Neck-Gap where the wind is otherwise quite biting.
Riding a little slow electric Motorcycle is like the the bit of time between flaring after crossing the fence, and touching down on the ground, in an Ultralight Motorglider...
One's bum is at the same altitude, the Airspeed in the face is the same (30 mph), and the squiffiness of Yaw & Roll (but no Pitch input beyond Weight-Shift...) is similar to landing in a Crosswind - coupled with the absolute neccessity of tracking precisely within
Inches of the intended
Groundtrack...; within the foot of clearance from the Guardrail to the left, & the overtaking Traffic on the Right, all made challenging by Random Crosswinds sprinkled in from the Trucks, Busses and B-Doubles...
Dirt Roads with potholes, corrugations and almost no traffic are much more recreational...; going out on the the Highway = riding onto the Tarmac Arena, apparently.
Flying is definitely "safer" than motorcycling, it seems, squeaking from my vast 30 hour mountain of inexperience ; where every impression is sharp & spiky with newness...
Keep on keeping on,
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
I like your electric motorcycle; as you rightly say, it’s a great compromise between an electric bicycle and an electric car (far too expensive and generally useless). My great uncle designed the Jenny 🙂
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair
Wow !
Your Ancestral Pteradactyl was much more influential than the Early Birds in my Family Tree then...; yikes - if he designed the Jenny, does that make him Glen Curtis himself, or one of the Team under his direction in the Drawing Office.
I put in 4 X 1 Km rides on my old Electric Bicycle today, it's first time using the Track left by 17 hours on the Electric Brushcutter - following a Bulldozer at a distance of 33 years...; to unload the Batteries before maintenance-charging them.
The first run took 5 minutes, average speed 13 Km/hr, & a max. of 18...the final run was 19 km/hr average with a max. of 26...; Full Twistiness, pedalling to help any time the speed fell below 15 or so...
And all 4 of the Batteries took 50 minutes each to recharge....
The Sting is an order of magnitude above the Discovery...(!).
In town, on a smooth road, where the Traffic is limited to 50 Km, then yeah ; an electric Bicycle would be great..., provided one has the discipline to keep the Logbook written up on the Battery/Batteries, and rotates the "Duty Battery" from Bike to Charger to Shelf of spare, charged units.
I was fantasizing about eBike Grocery-runs towing a Bicycle-Trailer, so my plan involved setting out with a full Battery in use, & 2 more in the Pannier Bags - one to get to town, one to get around town on, and another one to get home on ; with what was left in the first two, available to help get the Groceries home, and thus rotate the 4 Batteries to extend their
Calendar Life by spreading the 2 or 3 trips per week across 4 Batteries.
It isn't linear, but operated as such, the Batteries might perhaps last twice the Calendar expectation (?)
Time will tell,
Such is Life...
Stay safe.
;-p
Ciao !
@@WarblesOnALot Benjamin Thomas, a Sopwith employee recruited by Glen Curtiss in 1911.
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair
Wow, 1911 really is super early on in the
First Golden Age.
Before
Aeronautical
Beaurocracy had
Bin-Invented...
(lol !).
Keep on keeping on ,!
;-p
Ciao!
Real interesting. Glad to see you refer to the Zeus engineering hand. Every apprentice was given one, in my case some 55 years ago. Cheers from New Zealand.
This term intrigued me so I looked in to it further. Unfortunately (or fortunately) the Zeus Company are a manufacturer of bionic hands and this dominates searches. I imagine that your 55 year old Zeus hand refers to something different.
@Robutube1 yes, very different. It is a quick reference engineering handbook. Information like threads, drill sizes, pitch circle calculation, and the pages were coated to protect them from dirty fingers.
@@chriskiwi2601 Thanks for the explanation Chris!
Years ago I got the then teenage getaway driver to put the Zeus book through the scanner as well, so I always have a digital copy with me on my ipad. Very useful in the hotel room drawing office. Today's exercise is sketching up an ignition system for the Ford.
Fantastic ideas to make the oiling system work much better!!
Will incorporate some of those ideas into the A engine with the exhaust seat crack after I get a new insert valve seat installed.
Fun to watch you work on stuff!
Thanks Dan, more progress this week I hope 👍
Excellent, it's a shame it won't fly, but I understand why. A quick tip, use a step drill to drill thin sheet metal, it wont jam in the helix and as a bonus deburrs the hole.
Step drills are a recent discovery for me. I have one but only use it on non ferrous materials; I suppose I should run to spending ten bucks on another for ferrous materials only. Cor, how extravagant!
I drive a 4/4 series V. Albert Ball drove a "Grand Prix" trike.
He did, a MAG engined example.
Corben also used a model on kis Super Ace
model A
Yes indeed. I have the Corben plans, we'll have a look at them in a while.