stevem
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Hey guys, thought I'd post a couple pics of my scrathbuilt 2x bullpup based on BT-80. I never think about taking pictures while I am building so this is an afterthought. In the pictures you will see that I have primed once and sanded. Overall Length will be approx 32".
2X Bullpup primed & sanded
I turned the nose and tail cones on a 36" home made 'lathe' that I threw together last Saturday. A 12" chunk of balsa hanging off the end of a drill just doesn't work so I need to have something to support the free end of the balsa block. As luck would have it I had an old motor out of a seagate hard drive. The motor had several 4-40 threaded holes in the face of the armature. I cut the heads off some 4-40 bolts, ground a point on them and screwed them into the hard drive motor. I then mounted the motor in an upright block of wood. I also mounted my drill in an upright block of wood and aligned the center of the drill to the center of the hard drive motor. Now I can mount my block of balsa (with 3/8 dowel epoxied into center of one end) and then push the sharpened 4-40 bolts on the motor face into the center of the opposite end of the balsa. I made 2 12" long nose cones (one for a bigger vesion of the Coyote) and one for the Bullpup. I also made the tail cone for the Bullpup.
I am also working on another Coyote that will be BT-80 based. This will be 1.6x larger than my first Coyote
2X Bullpup primed & sanded
I turned the nose and tail cones on a 36" home made 'lathe' that I threw together last Saturday. A 12" chunk of balsa hanging off the end of a drill just doesn't work so I need to have something to support the free end of the balsa block. As luck would have it I had an old motor out of a seagate hard drive. The motor had several 4-40 threaded holes in the face of the armature. I cut the heads off some 4-40 bolts, ground a point on them and screwed them into the hard drive motor. I then mounted the motor in an upright block of wood. I also mounted my drill in an upright block of wood and aligned the center of the drill to the center of the hard drive motor. Now I can mount my block of balsa (with 3/8 dowel epoxied into center of one end) and then push the sharpened 4-40 bolts on the motor face into the center of the opposite end of the balsa. I made 2 12" long nose cones (one for a bigger vesion of the Coyote) and one for the Bullpup. I also made the tail cone for the Bullpup.
I am also working on another Coyote that will be BT-80 based. This will be 1.6x larger than my first Coyote