Good afternoon gentlemen and trust that all is in good health and spirits. Today, I'll start on the drive shaft system. More importantly, I'll be covering the part where the confusion starts at the crossed over tubing near the engine. A hint here, is that a pictorial close up of the pictures doesn't necessarily mean clarity. In the previous post of a close up of the crossed-over tubing to the drive chain, it appears that there are all kinds of bent pipes, added tubing, and extra stuff that somehow, doesn't make sense. I must have stared at these pictures for long hours until my eyes were crossed over themselves. It wasn't until the third day, that I finally "got it." To share with you my "discovery," I've taken the liberty of drawing some basic outlines of the system itself in various stages of assembly. Each component is shown separately, then the next drawing shows the component assembled to the next piece to start forming the overall assembly. I will also supplement the drawings with photographs of both the full sized article as well as the model
The first two drawings show the main tube itself. This is where it all starts. This is the core. This is the foundation for everything else to be added on. The drawing also shows a short bent piece of tubing was wielded to the main conduit. Wrights added this bent piece of tubing to the main conduit solely for the purpose of reinforcement. The second drawing shows two very short pieces of rods being attached to the main conduit. So, like building a plastic model, at this point, we have four pieces of tubing "glued" together. The main piece, the smaller bent piece "glued" underneath and then two very short pieces added on. The picture of the model shows the main conduit trial-fitted to the engine and propeller support struts with my tweezers holding the next piece to be added on. If you look carefully, you can see that the main conduit only consists of one main tube with a smaller bent piece attached underneath.