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Empire B-38 Being Built from Scratch
« on: February 27, 2020, 10:27:53 am »
This guy is building an Empire B-38 from castings.

Stuart sent me the link and I watched the 4 videos in the series he has published so far.


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Re: Empire B-38 Being Built from Scratch
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2020, 01:16:58 pm »
Charlie, thanks for sharing. Interesting to watch the casting part, but the machining was not very precise. Not sure why he had to go through all this process to replicate a moderately priced available engine?

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Re: Empire B-38 Being Built from Scratch
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2020, 01:19:19 pm »
Metal casting...something I will have to learn but the entry level costs for casting medium is a bit high. Everything else can be banged together and i even saw a small smelter forge the other day in my dads storage shed.
I'll have to have a sit and watch this. It looks interesting. Thanks for the link!
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