wtxrcdog

latest project

2011-01-28T20:40:00.000-06:00

Here is a votive I made from Cocobolo. It has great grain structure.

latest craze

2010-11-27T20:26:00.003-06:00

I went out and bought another toy to occupy more of my time. Like I have time to spare.
I bought a 16"Woodfast lathe. I have started wood turning. Making anything I can think of and I am hooked on it. Here are some photos of my efforts.

SSC combat

2009-11-30T12:19:00.003-06:00

It has been a long time since I updated my blog. Some friends of mine are building some new SSC planes. These will be electric powered. Can't wait to fly combat again.

Foamy Air Force

2008-12-13T12:18:00.005-06:00

Well my magic hand yak 54 has come and gone. The remainder of it is in my storage shed. I bounced a landing and the motor box broke off of the fuselage. I have since gotten a couple of electric foamie warbirds . A Corsair a P-51 and an f-4 phantom e- ducted fan.

Majic Hand Yak

2008-10-23T11:52:00.002-05:00

Well I don't have any pics of my yak. I thought it would be a cool kit it turned out to be too heavy. it came in at 19.5 lbs. after the 6th or 7th landing the motor box fell off after a hard landing. So all of the equipment has been stripped.

Until next time
Later

new job

2008-10-04T10:11:00.002-05:00

Well for the last two and a half months I have started a new job
that entails me being gone for 14 days at a time.It has taken a while to get used to it but Kathy and I are starting to get the hang of it.The best part is that I am home 13 days.which is cool. I am working in south Texas near Eagle Pass. The weather down here is getting pretty nice now with fall coming. maybe when I get home I will post some more projects
Bruce

Another project

2008-05-30T17:24:00.004-05:00

Well here I go again. My friend Gil has been after me for a couple of months to make some cylinder heads for an O. S. 25 FX engine for his combat planes. Well I finally got around to making them. They are made to use a Nelson glow plug. We tested one yesterday and it produced 1300 more rpm than the stock head with an 8 x 4 apc prop. I have it mounted on an old engine case just for fitting purposes.

New Router table

2008-05-13T15:23:00.005-05:00

Well here is my next project a JGRO router table. It will be made of mdf. and will be a table top machine. So far I have most of the parts cut out and the gantry assembly put together for a dry run. I will take it apart and glue it up when I get everything ready. The plans for this router are found on CNC zone. This should prove to be nice size router to learn the software on and familiarize myself with speeds and feeds for a router table.

New falcon's fly at the Lone Star Nat's

2008-04-14T20:30:00.004-05:00

My new Falcon's performed flawlessly at the Lone Star Nat's combat meet. I came in 12th out of 24 pilots. Quite an improvement over my last effort there. Check out my website for more combat pics and more info on r/c combat. www.wtxrcdog.com

new Falcon

2008-02-25T19:36:00.004-06:00

Well here is my new Falcon! All set for R/C combat. I need to build at least 2 more (hopefuly)
before the Lone Star Nats in Ft. Worth Texas at the end of march.

new flasks

2008-01-28T20:21:00.001-06:00

Hello Again

I finally got around to a new project. I am building a new flask for some art type of castings that I am going to do. the flask is 8" x 8" and each half is 3" deep. I am going to try to make some pewter castings of some figures or a bell. I still need to add some alignment pins to the flask. then seal them.

Later Bruce

www.wtxrcdog.com

New circuit board

2007-12-22T18:01:00.001-06:00

Well this is the first double sided board that we have built. Chris designed it and we used the toner transfer to make it. The board worked out very nicely. It will be used to remotely control an Auto-crane hoist on Chris's work truck.

At the top there is a couple of pics of the installed board and the remote.