RE: (erielack) New Erie RS3 photos...

[The Jordans <"pamela_@_blast.net">]

Oh damn!  Got to put those weird marker lights on them...

- -Joe Jordan

At 09:50 PM 5/27/99 -0400, Paul R. Tupaczewski wrote:
>> >Regardless, I still think it's a very nice model - painted up
>> and detailed,
>> >you'd be hard pressed to criticize it. Only thing I need now
>> (HEY MODELING
>> >FOLKS! LISTEN UP!) is someone to make a detail part of the large boxy
>> >retrofit louvers that the Erie (and later EL) added to the
>> majority of the
>> >900's (and to some of the 1000's). Right now, I was going to try and
>> >scratchbuild the part and cast some in resin, but... if someone knows
>> >someone who would feel compelled to injection mold such a part,
>> well.... :)
>> >
>> >I can provide the dimensions and an isometric drawing I made of the part,
>> if
>> >that will help.... :)
>> >
>> Would these work on the PA's as well.  Would like to have some for that!
>
>YES! This was an in-house Erie design to improve airflow through the
>louvers, and they were retrofitted to the corners of the nose on PA's (for
>toilet ventilation, of all things!)
>
>	- Paul
>
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