Dumb question, where can you get a razor plane? Lowes, Home Depot?

BTW, its looking good.

Wow, that turned out great.

This is the best wood plan on the planet for small jobs. I've been using these since 1986. You can shave anything from balsa to aluminum. The blades last an extremely long time. This is what I used when building the prototype Honest John and it's what I've used on ALL my airplanes since I was first introduced to this wood plan.

I'm not saying to purchase this item from this website since I'm not even sure where this company is located but simply search for the David Combi Plan online and you will find several places it can be purchased.


John Boren

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That's a good looking model!

Now I will sit and wait for the lawyers to come bashing down my door.

It should be fun, I haven't killed a lawyer in a long time.

Shakespeare was right.

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I've wondered about this as well. Your post #11 shows the holes plugged. I'll go out on a limb here and propose that most of the display M-31's out there were training units with inert motors. The two motor segments were simply welded together. On the operational motors the segments were joined at the factory with the holes being filled with press-fit pins. My justification would be that you would not want to be welding on a live motor. It would also offer a very quick way to ID a live vs training motor. You would think someone out there knows someone who worked on these way back when and could enlighten us.

Joe

I'm waiting for my kit to arrive and planning a few mods. Thanks for the info on the balsa thickness. I'm not much for sanding things to shape either. I do not believe I could get 4 identical fins or even symmetrical ones. I'll likely do what I did on my MadCow 4" HoJo and cut a core out of 1/16" G-10 and a tapered piece for the central ridge line of the diamond airfoil. That way I can can sand the balsa parts down to the G-10 and guarantee symmetrical and identical fins.

My cousin's husband was on a HoJo unit in Europe in the late 50's but he doesn't remember enough about it to help us out with any details.

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In message #47, I posted a photo of a young man posing next to a real Honest John.
http://forums.rocketshoppe.com/show...51&postcount=47



I said I planned to give him the new Estes kit for Christmas.

So, here's an update. Since he's too young to remember specifics about what kind of rocket he posed with months ago, I printed out the big picture and used that to cover over the kit bag. Here he is with his dad pointing out that's him next to that rocket.



And here he is after unwrapping the rest of it.



He was REALLY happy to get it. He was hugging it like a new puppy, but I didn't get a good pic of that. It's not his first rocket, he has an E2X and a couple of "Skill level 1/2" saucer-ish models, he'll need a bit of guidance with this one. He really likes flying rockets.

This will be built as a unique looking fun sport rocket he can fly, not as a scale model this time (maybe another HJ kit when he's older). And as I said before, since his favorite color is orange….. this may end up as an "Orangest John", will have to see what he wants to go with.

John Boren , thanks again for working up a great new kit like this. And please feel free to share the pics with others at Estes who might like to see them (including Mary R.)

Sad to say, I wont be posting anything else like this here for quite awhile. So I wanted to give this update now.

- George Gassaway

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Really cool, George!

I'll miss your informative posts..

Allen