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Posted: **Fri Jan 03, 2014 7:16 pm**

Great stuff! Can you explain what an "outer compression strut" assembly is, and where does it go? Also, is the last piece you post part of the underside nose structure? Thanks.

Posted: **Fri Jan 03, 2014 7:17 pm**

Hey Ray,

It's Eric Miller with Project Warbird Salvage/Museum up in Asheville. I just found this forum with your project from someone posting it on WIX. AWESOME work!!!!!! Did the parts you bought from me work out? I have a few boxes of parts in my shop that I don't know what they go to. You can dig through them if you want. I also would love to come down and see Lucky 13.

Eric Miller
Project Warbird
Salvage/Museum
http://www.projectwarbird.com
1-888-504-5777

Posted: **Sat Jan 04, 2014 8:09 pm**

Great stuff! Can you explain what an "outer compression strut" assembly is, and where does it go? Also, is the last piece you post part of the underside nose structure? Thanks.

Tim,

That's the truss structure on the sides of the bomb bay.
The bottom strut is where the bomb bay doors attach.

Oh, and I have DVDs for you.
Contact me via email.

-Bill

Posted: **Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:58 pm**

Thanks Bill. Email sent.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2014 12:45 pm**

Ray,
It never ceases to amaze me what all you have accomplished and where all these parts are going to.
Keep HANG THE EXPENSE busy and try and keep him from cussin' too much.

Uncle Marvin sure would be proud!

Don

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2014 3:15 pm**

Spanner, Your tagline is one of the reasons I cuss so much.Its dang perfect.

Posted: **Thu Jan 30, 2014 5:19 pm**

I have finished drilling the pilot holes in the bottom outer compression strut tubes,they are for the bomb bay door hinges.All 567 of them.

I will be working on the bomb bay door hinge brackets next.

Also picked up a set of rudder peddles for lucky

Posted: **Fri Jan 31, 2014 8:14 pm**

Well done, keep pecking away! Always amazes me the volume of work you do.

Posted: **Sat Feb 01, 2014 9:19 am**

Mad skills.

Posted: **Mon Mar 24, 2014 5:13 pm**

I have all of the bomb bay door hinge brackets cut for all six planes

I have all so started milling them to the right size

Posted: **Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:16 pm**

And mill them with precision!

(Digital calipers reads ".881" - Part dimension is .88 +/- 1/64

Posted: **Sun Mar 30, 2014 6:32 am**

Impressive update!

Posted: **Sun Jun 01, 2014 3:34 pm**

Come on Ray, don't make a career on those brackets.

Posted: **Wed Oct 01, 2014 9:29 am**

Ray has texted me a bunch of photos, and asked me to post them here.
Enjoy!

Bomb Bay Door brackets by the dozens....

Gusset plates for the compression trusses, and the catwalks

Sorting through all that material

Compression struts in the making

Another angle

More to come!

Posted: **Wed Oct 01, 2014 9:33 am**

Here are some images from Ray's shop move.
If it is anything like his last place, you can eat off
both the floors AND the walls.

Machinery - Milling the end off a longeron

Compression struts in the jig

Moving some of his prized wreckage

Nose keel in the jig

Another view of the nose keel

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