friend looking for drawings to restore a 46 fuselage?

[supercub]

any idea where a guy might find prints or drawings for the purpose of restoring a fuselage? Thanks

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: friend looking for drawings to restore a 46 fuselage?

How bad is the fuselage? Can you post photos of the damage? Depending on how bad it is you could need anything from someone providing some dimensions for repair to another borrowed fuselage to build a partial fixture.
Hank

[Guest]

Re: friend looking for drawings to restore a 46 fuselage?

Unfortunately drawings are generally not available. The one or two that I managed to get a .jpg copy of are pretty tuff to read (rudder).

It is possible that you will find some person that happens to have one. I suspect not though.

You can also do some clever matching and comparing from side2side, top2bottom ... to do a good repair.

Dave

[Bird]

Re: friend looking for drawings to restore a 46 fuselage?

As a side note - how different are the fuselages from year to year or models? Seems that a person could place some butcher paper along the side of the fuse and spray some cheap paint at it from the inside (during a rebuild before stripping like me) and get a pretty good layout of it.

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: friend looking for drawings to restore a 46 fuselage?

Michael,
I think that would work well if you were building a model, but I doubt you could get close enough for a straight fuselage in full size. Just the shrink and stretch of the paper would bring in some pretty bad errors from humidity and temperature. I couldn't get a decent side tracing of a planes fuselage on good quality Velum because of "paper" stability, butcher paper doesn't even work very well when you shrink it for a model. The nice thing about the technique for a model is when you make a 1:6 model the errors shrink by 6 too. No problem when you are butchering a piece of balsa.

Bill,
If you need a reference I have a 45 fuselage, straight and fully primed and painted on the gear with no fabric or stringers in Virginia Beach. I don't know what SN your fuselage is so I don't know how much different they would be but Mass. isn't that far from Virginia Beach and the weather here is MUCH better. What we REALLY need is someone with a LASER counter top measuring set up to scan a whole fuselage.
Hank