*** I accidentally deleted the comment about what I assume what the copying of the main FE panel. That is a low priority since I have the original to work with. Once I do copy it, it will easily install with the removal of the three bottom bolts and the turning of the threaded bolts I feature in this video. Building that panel is probably the last thing I do when I declare the FE station complete.
Thank you. The detail could be heavier if I knew exactly what I was doing with zero guess work. I’ve found the more detail I create, the more I have to remove when I make some silly error or have a revision of the same area down the road.
@@B36HPeacemaker It is interesting to me that one problem you don't seem to have is an accumulation of errors or tolerances. Normally if you design or build something in a serial fashion, and in your case without drawings, any small error will be additive with others, making a big problem in angles, gaps, spacing, or dimensions at the end. Perhaps you are compensating as you go, but in any case everything looks very precise.
Coming along! It would be cool, and a lot more work, to put in the radio compartment as well. Is that equipment (instruments and radios) that you can easily get?
I’m a just a guy who has an unreasonably detailed interest in the B-36. I’m leaning towards taking it to airshows and so on. Eventually it will end up at a museum.
@@B36HPeacemaker OK, do you have access to the original dials, switches, relays? It would really cool if everything were wired and accompanying sound effect are used to simulate engine start up and flight.
@@user-pp1ni2jy3f Yes, I have a lot of vintage equipment. What you are talking about would cost thousands and thousands of dollars. This equipment is all mechanical so you’d have to devise a link between digital and mechanical on hundreds of gauges, lamps and on. It’s something I’m not interested in, nor can I afford it. Not even close.
Love your work and passion for this project. Keep up the fantastic effort!
*** I accidentally deleted the comment about what I assume what the copying of the main FE panel. That is a low priority since I have the original to work with. Once I do copy it, it will easily install with the removal of the three bottom bolts and the turning of the threaded bolts I feature in this video. Building that panel is probably the last thing I do when I declare the FE station complete.
The detail is mind boggling!
Thank you. The detail could be heavier if I knew exactly what I was doing with zero guess work. I’ve found the more detail I create, the more I have to remove when I make some silly error or have a revision of the same area down the road.
@@B36HPeacemaker It is interesting to me that one problem you don't seem to have is an accumulation of errors or tolerances. Normally if you design or build something in a serial fashion, and in your case without drawings, any small error will be additive with others, making a big problem in angles, gaps, spacing, or dimensions at the end. Perhaps you are compensating as you go, but in any case everything looks very precise.
Damn!
Coming along! It would be cool, and a lot more work, to put in the radio compartment as well. Is that equipment (instruments and radios) that you can easily get?
I have a lot of the equipment for that area, however the ECM boxes that line the forward rack areas would have to be scratch built.
It's a cool idea, but for what purpose? Are making a B-36 simulator for new crews to get familiar? Or man cave? Just wondering...
I’m a just a guy who has an unreasonably detailed interest in the B-36. I’m leaning towards taking it to airshows and so on. Eventually it will end up at a museum.
@@B36HPeacemaker OK, do you have access to the original dials, switches, relays? It would really cool if everything were wired and accompanying sound effect are used to simulate engine start up and flight.
@@user-pp1ni2jy3f Yes, I have a lot of vintage equipment. What you are talking about would cost thousands and thousands of dollars. This equipment is all mechanical so you’d have to devise a link between digital and mechanical on hundreds of gauges, lamps and on. It’s something I’m not interested in, nor can I afford it. Not even close.