C ‘M Wangs? ‘M Ain’t Duks!!

[RANDALL RYAN]

My first gas jobs in nearly 20 years. These and the wings and stabs for Lindstrum’s Chicagolander, a Dixielander variant. I built one of these when it was first published and flew it on a Cox .15 Medalian on a pen blatter. Later founs a couple Mk II’s and it really came to life. It dod well with the Medalian, but the Mk II was what it really needed. Anyway, I decided these would be a good ship to get into Classic Power with and since I’m geeked on gas again with that event, here I go!!

Hey, where can I get bladders or pacifiers, Lee Campbell doesn’t list binkies that I could find.

[DAN BERRY]

Neoprene pen bladders are now called pen sacs.
get ’em at
Pendemonium.com
# 14 will do nicely for the .15 enf=gine.

[RANDALL RYAN]

Thanks Dan from a fellow Luddite

[JLorbiecki]

Well, we have another one back to the “semi dark side”- now if it had bunt ….

I just use thin wall surgical tubing. This is relately high pressure tho and you must check it if you are using a pinchoff timer…

[DAN BERRY]

I like the pen bladder a lot. It isn’t affected by fuel. I’ve had the same one in a Spacer for over 2 years, maybe 3 , who keeps track? It does have less pressure than latex, which is feature that I like.

[Norm Furutani]

The surgical tubing bladders work very well. The materials are readily available and inexpensive.

There are two sites I know of with how-to’s.

http://www.clcombat.info/bladder.html
Note: the Perfect line clip shut-off

http://www.texastimers.com/
Helpful hints

The tubing and Luer lock syringe tips are available from:
http://www.smallparts.com/

– Norm

For syringes, I have had very good luck with the Monoject brand – try a vet supply. The BD brand doesn’t hold up as well.

[Bill Shailor]

Randy,
Get those things finished for our Inter-Cities meet! We’re hopin the Vintage FAI event this year will be popular.

[RANDALL RYAN]

Thanks guys!!

Bill, the airplanes won’t be a problem, but I have some work to do on the engines.

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