This is the new
1/144 Revell E-2c Hawkeye plus DML catapult deck and crew, I wanted make the
plane in launch position so I need make a way to simulate the engines running.
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So I need find
the smallest , easy to find and cheap engines ,and a friend (called Augusto)
told me why not try Vibracall engines?
I look in a
cell phone maintenance shop and ask for these engines (choose a small Star tac
engine ) and paid about $2.50 each...,later I ask in my house for old Nokia
batteries (with recharge life ended) and found more engines (and these
batteries was waiting for be discarded), I extracted the weight (who produces
the vibration) of engine.
I put the engines in the nacelles
,extended the power wires (I pick the wires from a broken cassette player) and
adapted the propellers to the engine axle (I filled the propeller with a piece
of sprue and drilled a new hole (with same diameter of axle) .
The power wire is hiding in
the main landing gear legs and go to the power supply a single LR44 battery (1,5v
used in calculators and laser pointers )fitted under the base (I need improve
this set ,adding a On/off switch) . From the start of project (the search of
engines) to the final I spent 3 weeks...I know I could put lights inside but I
forgot....and closed the fuselage to fast.
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The engines works !! And
sometimes I put the sound of real E-2c (from a CW-5 Indy Laser disc) to give a
more realist touch ...
Roberto
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