duckduckgoose
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Took the spear to new heights today ( in a very remote area in Australia so no real planes to worry about). Used a vector fc with a 3200 mAh 4s. Managed 2000m altitude!
You've still got the brain power of a 2 year old lol
That is awesome.
Well my wife's blow dryer quit for the 4th time and this time it is done so let's see if I can fit a motor into it and see what kind of thrust this thing can produce. Definitely a different concept of blades, the sharp pointed ends are the intake side of it.
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Update on this guy. Fitted a 3500 kv motor into it , bolt pattern was even the same . Had to drill out the knurled bushing from the impellor to for the motor shaft and together it went.
It actually pushed a lot of air and even once it sucked a piece of paper towel a foot away and I now have shredded towel everywhere. All was good and I started to get up to 1/2 throttle and just as I was thinking about maybe putting in in a scatter shield of some kind BOOM, it boke off all the blades. There was only 4 and I found 3 but haven't found the fourth one yet.
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Well you have an awesome duct so go ahead and 3D print a new impeller for it!
I present the sea duck and her 75% 'duckling'Looking good! I'm eager to see how the Sea Duckling does - what motors are you planning on using?
sweet!! I'm gonna have to build one of those!
I'll let you know how the maiden goessweet!! I'm gonna have to build one of those!
Looks kinda like a gentle ladywas given this weird glider with a cox .50 mounted on a wing pod awhile ago.
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i converted it to an electric with an emax 2205-2300kv on 4S.
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and yes, i did secure my wires before flight...
anyways, in all of our home isolation i started cleaning the hangar the other day and cam across a few old glories. this being one of them. while cleaning i also came across 2 bags, 1 with a motor, esc, and rx from a 2M radian. the other bag had the prop and adapters. perfect i thought...
a little while later we had chopped the nose off.
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now as always, the devil is in the details. i have a pile of prop and motor adapters but not a single one would match. once i found one (thanks Gaige) then the prop no longer fit over the shaft...
so now we go to Tinkercad to design and build something to make it work.
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then to the slicer, Simplify3D...
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and then we have this...
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and eventually this...
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firewall is printing now. i was hoping for tomorrow but will probably re-maiden on sunday.
laters,
me