Ray,
What type of saw do you use for slitting the rear of the bearing? I have
tired several small slitting blades but not happy with the results.
Don
On 12/26/2014 11:55 AM, rbharlan_at_comcast.net [Indoor_Construction] wrote:
>
> I'm not sure when the first use of "pigtail" occurred, but Jim
> Richmond shows a bent a wire bearing in INAV, Oct. '70 and calls the
> rear a pigtail. The bearing that I made, starting in '74, comes from
> an Italian modeler, Egizio Corazza, who showed it in INAV, Dec. '69.
> All I did was to improve the coverage of the sheet metal around the
> prop shaft by using a very thin, angled slit so that, when the metal
> is bent forward and back, the hole looks closed when viewed from the
> rear. I adopted the term "pigtail" because it did the same thing that
> a bent wire does, support the wire all the way around.
>
>
> The tooling that I needed was a bending jig to get the side profile of
> the bearing and something to bend the slit end forward and back to
> allow the shaft hook to drop into the rear hole. This gadget is a pair
> of pliers that bends each side. I also needed a fixture to hold the
> bearing blank at the correct angle for slotting.
>
>
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Received on Fri Dec 26 2014 - 09:07:16 CET