Since the wind guage was a whimsy of my Dad's, you won't find it. He took his coke/beer can plane and ran a stiff, non-coroding wire down the center, with the wings level, that was about eight inches long, above the plane, and locked to the bottom of the plane. He made a reinforced inverted "L" of one inch wide wood slats with a support block at the joint and a stainless steel uncompressed pop rivet through the end from the top. Pulling the nail that compressed the rivet out gave you a hollow metal shaft though the wood with the head of the rivet acting as a bearing washer. The short wooden arm above the plane was long enough for the plane to spin without hitting the verticle support. He ran the top of the wire (center core of cable wire if I remember correctly, up through the pop rivet "bearing" and bent the last quarter inch over flat. The plane would turn into any wind with the prop turning. Llift off the wings would cause the plane to "fly up" pushing the wire up through the rivet. You could calibrate with a wind indicator and put a vertical guage on top of the frame, like a piece of ruler. The bent top of the wire would climb the guage giving you wind speed. Or you could see the wire was pushed up a bit and a breeze was blowing, up an inch and it was windy, the top wing of the biplane against the pop rivet and it was "REAL" windy, as in a storm, LOL. You could do this with any of the can aircraft. Over time the sun will fade the graphics. I preferred the interior side out so you had a silver plane without any fading. By the way, he made the wheels by taking a small tubing cutter and cutting off short thicknesses of the TV cable insulation/shielding. This gave rounded edges with black plastic for the tread, stainless metal for the rim and a white disk with a round hole in the center when you slid it off the wire. It made great looking wheels.
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