I hate those things that are temperature-dependent. I waited weeks in the spring for weather that was suitable to apply primer to my corsair project. It happens.
I'll have to ask her but my neice makes kid type jewelry out of a kind of resin that gets baked to cure.
From what she has said it does not shrink and the little glow in the dark alien head i got from her is pretty solid.
That stuff may be a viable solution to get away from fragile clay / pottery type mold making.
Hey Jon....
Is it me or does the landing gear have the shock tilting rearward?
If so I would suggest you change it so the compression is front to back as it will be inneffective and likely to shear on hard landing if it compresses back to front.
Having the wheel side lead into the landing a bit will allow it to compress into a more vertical state putting the load on the towers not on the shaft.
From the angle of the pic I would say mount the assembly 180 or shorten the support rods to get the shock aimed forward.
Hey Jon....
Is it me or does the landing gear have the shock tilting rearward?
If so I would suggest you change it so the compression is front to back as it will be inneffective and likely to shear on hard landing if it compresses back to front.
Having the wheel side lead into the landing a bit will allow it to compress into a more vertical state putting the load on the towers not on the shaft.
From the angle of the pic I would say mount the assembly 180 or shorten the support rods to get the shock aimed forward.
I think he does has the wheel compressing front to back, look a little closer, the control surfaces give it away.
oh yeah true, that shock absorber is going to do very little at its current state, definitely try to have it facing the other way or else over time it will rip out the landing gear. However I don't think that switching it the other way around will do too much either. The wires won't bend like you think they will and the landing gear wouldn't move at all.Hmm... I didn't think about that... It's very simple to rotate the whole assembly 180 and that would help line up the forces if it hits hard enough to start flexing the wires too. Good idea!
You are correct that the wheel does move in a backwards arc, but I think @PsyBorg point about having the shock point towards the front could help prevent damage to the shock in a less than ideal landing scenario.
Long term (fingers crossed the bird lives to a "long term") I want to replace the whole main landing gear setup with something that looks a lot more like @wilmracer setup for the Sweet Pea - but I want to fly her at least once before putting the hours into that rebuild.
No preshough mon (Jamaican dialect), but do you have a feel yet, for a maiden time?
I'm curious how those decals work out for ya. (I have an alps for water-slide decals and that is totally backwards to how they work.)
What brand is the paper/system?
I've got quite a bit of experience with mold making... I usually use a platinum cured RTV, but if this is a one-off then it might not be worth the expense. I am a tad worried about you getting epoxy to release from ultracal though...
I've got quite a bit of experience with mold making... I usually use a platinum cured RTV, but if this is a one-off then it might not be worth the expense. I am a tad worried about you getting epoxy to release from ultracal though...
Ah, okay. I see what you are doing then, I thought what you were doing was the first coat of your layup.When I'm ready to do the layup, it'll all get about 3 or 4 coats of mold release first to help promote separation. Fingers crossed!