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Offline pepperman42

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Re: SPAD XIII C.1 in 1:32 scale
« Reply #135 on: August 08, 2018, 07:34:23 AM »
Nice final steps!!

Steve

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Re: SPAD XIII C.1 in 1:32 scale
« Reply #136 on: September 28, 2018, 05:32:29 PM »




Hi!
Excellent work!
Now you've made me want to resume mine!!!

What have you used for the filler cap???

Ciao
IWik

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Re: SPAD XIII C.1 in 1:32 scale
« Reply #137 on: September 28, 2018, 07:39:08 PM »
Hi Iwik,
Some think this cap was a fuel filler, but the pipe runs down inside the right side of the cockpit then forwards and across to the lower rear of the engine. The pipe seems to be attached to the oil pump housing, so I believe this pipe was the engine crankcase breather pipe, to relive excess air pressure built up inside the engine.

The pipe into which the breather cap is fitted was made from brass micro-tube.  The breather cap (kit item C9) is molded as a solid piece, whereas the actual cap had breather holes around the top of the cap.
To replicate this cap I cut away the stem from the kit part and drilled a 0.7 mm diameter hole up into the cap body. Into this I secured a short length of 0.6 mm micro-tube using CA adhesive. The cap was then drilled around the top edge with a 0.3 mm diameter drill to recreate the vent holes. The cap was brush painted with ‘Mr. Metal Colour’ Stainless Steel (213). I then inserted the new stem into the fuselage pipe and secured it in position using thin CA adhesive.

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Re: SPAD XIII C.1 in 1:32 scale
« Reply #138 on: September 29, 2018, 05:35:39 AM »
Posted in wrong thread - Moved to my W.29 build thread.

Mike
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Re: SPAD XIII C.1 in 1:32 scale
« Reply #139 on: September 29, 2018, 06:01:01 AM »
UMMM .......  might want to slip this over to your W.29 Thread Mike! ;)
Cheers,
Lance

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Re: SPAD XIII C.1 in 1:32 scale
« Reply #140 on: September 29, 2018, 06:04:04 AM »
Oops - thanks - will do,

Mike


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