SWG.The Magic Letters. What Mean wire size specifications bug heres simple way end annoyance Warren D Shipp FRIEND theres really big model con test coming soon being eager model builder youre gonna build four models time contest Youve collected dozens model airplane drawings over world have painstak ingly finally sorted out four beautiful scale models build spare Theyre really knockouts will dazzle judges wow other contestants good-looking models have good flight proportions plenty details should fly well adrenalin has got enthusiasm fever pitch next step assemble required supplies no long-time modeler like yourself worth salt ever low supplies somehow brother time So grab favorite local hobby shop mail order catalogs start making up good size list Youve got down strip sheet MUSIC WIRE EQUIVALENTS Brown & Sharpe Mfg CoFrom table Decimal & Metric Equivalents Providence RI steel wire gaugeof Common Fractions Inch over 70 years old Standard Wire GaugeApproximateNearest Fraction SWGDecimal EquivalentActual Decimalof InchMM 5182187503/164763 6162156255/323969 7144140629/643572 8128125001/83175 9114109387/642778 10102 11091093753/322381 12081078125/641984 13072 14064I062501/161588 15057 16051 17045046883/641191 18040 19036 20032031251/320794 21028 22025 23022 24020 25018 26016015621/640397 27014015621/640397 28012 29011 30010 31009 320081/128 33007 340063 350056 36005 Decimals fractions inch listed catalogs taken random include SIG 015 020 025 1/323/64 1/163/32 1/85/323/16 o LD TIMER 01 5 020 025 032 047 062 MICRO-X 010 012 013 014 015 016 020 025 PECK 016 025 031 046 062 wood metal parts paper dope cements plans threw curve drawing rubber wire Wire Hah Theres whereContinued nneR8 October1978 17 SWG wire gage showing aide designated approximate decimals xanaara wire gage snowing tne wu awe iaoi iI umuirieter GRISH AIRCRAFT TYPE PROPELLERS Made hardwood fully carved true helical pitch airfoil ready sanding ALL SIZES IN18$700 6 8 & 10 PITCH20800 RIGHT HAND221000 ROTATION241300 3/8 BORE AT YOUR DEALER ALL GRISH PROPELLERS ARE ENGINEERED TO TRUE i-IELICAL PITCH AND AIRFOIL FOR EFFICIENCY 2 Blade Tractor 5-3each 5-45A-35A-4304 6-36-4354 7-47-67-8504 8-48-68-8654 9-49-69-7 9-810-410-6854 11-411-611-8$1 12-412-512-6$150 USE TO PROPEL AIR CREATE THRUST AND BE PROPELLED BY AIR 5/2-3 2 Blade Pusher 5A-4 6-36-4 354 8-6854 504 9-610-6 $1BLADE 3 BladeTractor 5-3 6-36-4 3 Blade Pusher 6-3504Metallic Aluminum Color Made polyester boll color7-67-8$1 8-68-8 $125 9-6 10-6 10-4 $150 Pusher 10-6$150 modelers using spark plug gap devices will provide approximation have searched through several catalogs tools equipment gauges find available drill ream screw sizes Perhaps old Brown & Sharpe gauge still being made perhaps another company under another name gauge type quite useful inexpensive will help identify odd bit wire have scrap box check what dealers have sent readers have name ad dress company makes wire gauge such old Brown & Sharpe have youd doing fellow model builders favor letting Editor Model viation know careful confuse wire gauge another Brown & Sharpe gauge have US Standard Gauge Sheet Plate Iron Steel numbers sizes slots same subject steel wire whatever happened old piano wire kind stuff lot springback held its shape shaped could formed would real good spring Seems wire today simply steel wire no spring it bends unwanted shape easily stays Fifteen Hours Weber continued page 21 pack YOU thought good two hours flying turns out good 30 minutes after age heat get through Please keep letters coming questions bothering other people too George M Myers 70 Froehlich Farm Road Hicksville NY 11801 Magic Letters/Shipp continued page 17 England specifies wire #l4swg another drawing says use wire 064 inch third stipulates 1/16th inch some futuristic wise guy says use 1588mm Now what gonna What rela tionship does have other Frantically reading through collection mail order catalogs ref erences favorite model airplane magazines advertising find dismay wire listed either fractions decimals inch melange does swg mm fit Well friend fret no problem solved accompanying table will find relief have ask 1/16th inch 064 inch size same #l4swg 1588mm identical sizes get plans other sizes can always figure out nearest size fit needs table Like yourself Ive going through dilemma years have using 75-year-old Brown & Sharpe wire gauge father machinist col lection old well-made well-kept tools inherited passed away 2-inch diameter gauge pro vides swg number side approximate decimal equivalents other leads wonder ever arrived sizes first place Did decimals come first did swg numbers what based origination wire sizes World Book Encyclopedia states size wire differs according its gauge dia meter American Brown & Sharpe standard gauge used United States gauge varies Number 000000 058 inch diameter Number 36 005 other United States standards Sometimes Imperial gauge England used France Germany use gauges based millimeter steel wire gauge standard gauge steel wire United States Oddly though draw ings England use swg numbers American drawings use common understandable us least fractions decimals inch As service fellow befuddled modelers took data Brown & Sharpe gauge being simple mind added other equivalents should provide information should ever need about wire sizes know some satisfactory either on-board lamps 12-volt spotlights ground ready both Now dark using three lamps plane three spotlights ground Hey gang much harder expected needed clearer head reflective tape Thinking about what plane doing difficult such limited visual cues long must go break record Two hours Can stand possibly tough est thing Id ever done Stress fatigue present night time test flights got out fourth spotlight saving needed light keep going night distractions Un identified flying creatures out Star Wars peeping over tops spotlights nearby NASA laser tracking station pulsed red green laser beams pass ing satellite much longer guys worst time flight yet come Shortly after 11 pm helicopter flew past no lights kind Illegal Soon saw distance turned huge spotlight several minutes searched two miles away Oh no coming way needed ten minutes new record could hardly see model monstrous light eyes came within 500 feet shined directly us tried keep back Go away might blow Shark down kept 88 Model Aviation PROPELLERS AT YOUR DEALER T DISCRETION OF THE PURCHASER G RUSH ST JOHN INDIANA 46373
Edition: Model Aviation - 1978/10
Page Numbers: 17, 88
SWG.The Magic Letters. What Mean wire size specifications bug heres simple way end annoyance Warren D Shipp FRIEND theres really big model con test coming soon being eager model builder youre gonna build four models time contest Youve collected dozens model airplane drawings over world have painstak ingly finally sorted out four beautiful scale models build spare Theyre really knockouts will dazzle judges wow other contestants good-looking models have good flight proportions plenty details should fly well adrenalin has got enthusiasm fever pitch next step assemble required supplies no long-time modeler like yourself worth salt ever low supplies somehow brother time So grab favorite local hobby shop mail order catalogs start making up good size list Youve got down strip sheet MUSIC WIRE EQUIVALENTS Brown & Sharpe Mfg CoFrom table Decimal & Metric Equivalents Providence RI steel wire gaugeof Common Fractions Inch over 70 years old Standard Wire GaugeApproximateNearest Fraction SWGDecimal EquivalentActual Decimalof InchMM 5182187503/164763 6162156255/323969 7144140629/643572 8128125001/83175 9114109387/642778 10102 11091093753/322381 12081078125/641984 13072 14064I062501/161588 15057 16051 17045046883/641191 18040 19036 20032031251/320794 21028 22025 23022 24020 25018 26016015621/640397 27014015621/640397 28012 29011 30010 31009 320081/128 33007 340063 350056 36005 Decimals fractions inch listed catalogs taken random include SIG 015 020 025 1/323/64 1/163/32 1/85/323/16 o LD TIMER 01 5 020 025 032 047 062 MICRO-X 010 012 013 014 015 016 020 025 PECK 016 025 031 046 062 wood metal parts paper dope cements plans threw curve drawing rubber wire Wire Hah Theres whereContinued nneR8 October1978 17 SWG wire gage showing aide designated approximate decimals xanaara wire gage snowing tne wu awe iaoi iI umuirieter GRISH AIRCRAFT TYPE PROPELLERS Made hardwood fully carved true helical pitch airfoil ready sanding ALL SIZES IN18$700 6 8 & 10 PITCH20800 RIGHT HAND221000 ROTATION241300 3/8 BORE AT YOUR DEALER ALL GRISH PROPELLERS ARE ENGINEERED TO TRUE i-IELICAL PITCH AND AIRFOIL FOR EFFICIENCY 2 Blade Tractor 5-3each 5-45A-35A-4304 6-36-4354 7-47-67-8504 8-48-68-8654 9-49-69-7 9-810-410-6854 11-411-611-8$1 12-412-512-6$150 USE TO PROPEL AIR CREATE THRUST AND BE PROPELLED BY AIR 5/2-3 2 Blade Pusher 5A-4 6-36-4 354 8-6854 504 9-610-6 $1BLADE 3 BladeTractor 5-3 6-36-4 3 Blade Pusher 6-3504Metallic Aluminum Color Made polyester boll color7-67-8$1 8-68-8 $125 9-6 10-6 10-4 $150 Pusher 10-6$150 modelers using spark plug gap devices will provide approximation have searched through several catalogs tools equipment gauges find available drill ream screw sizes Perhaps old Brown & Sharpe gauge still being made perhaps another company under another name gauge type quite useful inexpensive will help identify odd bit wire have scrap box check what dealers have sent readers have name ad dress company makes wire gauge such old Brown & Sharpe have youd doing fellow model builders favor letting Editor Model viation know careful confuse wire gauge another Brown & Sharpe gauge have US Standard Gauge Sheet Plate Iron Steel numbers sizes slots same subject steel wire whatever happened old piano wire kind stuff lot springback held its shape shaped could formed would real good spring Seems wire today simply steel wire no spring it bends unwanted shape easily stays Fifteen Hours Weber continued page 21 pack YOU thought good two hours flying turns out good 30 minutes after age heat get through Please keep letters coming questions bothering other people too George M Myers 70 Froehlich Farm Road Hicksville NY 11801 Magic Letters/Shipp continued page 17 England specifies wire #l4swg another drawing says use wire 064 inch third stipulates 1/16th inch some futuristic wise guy says use 1588mm Now what gonna What rela tionship does have other Frantically reading through collection mail order catalogs ref erences favorite model airplane magazines advertising find dismay wire listed either fractions decimals inch melange does swg mm fit Well friend fret no problem solved accompanying table will find relief have ask 1/16th inch 064 inch size same #l4swg 1588mm identical sizes get plans other sizes can always figure out nearest size fit needs table Like yourself Ive going through dilemma years have using 75-year-old Brown & Sharpe wire gauge father machinist col lection old well-made well-kept tools inherited passed away 2-inch diameter gauge pro vides swg number side approximate decimal equivalents other leads wonder ever arrived sizes first place Did decimals come first did swg numbers what based origination wire sizes World Book Encyclopedia states size wire differs according its gauge dia meter American Brown & Sharpe standard gauge used United States gauge varies Number 000000 058 inch diameter Number 36 005 other United States standards Sometimes Imperial gauge England used France Germany use gauges based millimeter steel wire gauge standard gauge steel wire United States Oddly though draw ings England use swg numbers American drawings use common understandable us least fractions decimals inch As service fellow befuddled modelers took data Brown & Sharpe gauge being simple mind added other equivalents should provide information should ever need about wire sizes know some satisfactory either on-board lamps 12-volt spotlights ground ready both Now dark using three lamps plane three spotlights ground Hey gang much harder expected needed clearer head reflective tape Thinking about what plane doing difficult such limited visual cues long must go break record Two hours Can stand possibly tough est thing Id ever done Stress fatigue present night time test flights got out fourth spotlight saving needed light keep going night distractions Un identified flying creatures out Star Wars peeping over tops spotlights nearby NASA laser tracking station pulsed red green laser beams pass ing satellite much longer guys worst time flight yet come Shortly after 11 pm helicopter flew past no lights kind Illegal Soon saw distance turned huge spotlight several minutes searched two miles away Oh no coming way needed ten minutes new record could hardly see model monstrous light eyes came within 500 feet shined directly us tried keep back Go away might blow Shark down kept 88 Model Aviation PROPELLERS AT YOUR DEALER T DISCRETION OF THE PURCHASER G RUSH ST JOHN INDIANA 46373