Florida_Pilot16
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I would like to reinforce my FT Explorer wings any suggestion?
Thanks...!!!
Thanks...!!!
Reinforce against folding?
Carbon arrow shaft. Cheap and easy to find at nearly any Walmart this time of year. 32" not enough? want dihedral? most come with a standard 8-32 thread insert. get a short piece of 8-32 threaded rod, bend if you want a dihedral and screw the two shafts together nose-to-nose. Glue into the wing.
I followed your advice, very clever. Cut a length of 8/32 screw, bent to 9°, and used red loctite. This is very difficult to insert into the wing using the normal build process, so here is how I did it:Reinforce against folding?
Carbon arrow shaft. Cheap and easy to find at nearly any Walmart this time of year. 32" not enough? want dihedral? most come with a standard 8-32 thread insert. get a short piece of 8-32 threaded rod, bend if you want a dihedral and screw the two shafts together nose-to-nose. Glue into the wing.
I really like the Armin wing video, and will build one if (when) I destroy my Explorer wing. So far, I've ripped both wings in half, yet managed to glue them both back together. But the build looks very straightforward and doesn't require tracing plans.I'm building an Explorer now and considering an armin wing. Seems much easier to reinforce with one long CF arrow shaft. Found this video describing it.
The Armin wing in the video has no dihedral. Uses a carbon arrow shaft as a center spar to join the wing halves. I've flown mine with it and it works well. Has taken some serious hits and survived. The spar fits nice and snug.I got the 8/32 bar stock... Wow its thin. Did you all find it strong enough to hold the dyhedreal on the Armin wing? Do I bend it at 9 or 10 total degrees?
Thug life!I reinforced with a couple bbq skewers on the stock sport wing. I built it as a straight wing. Yesterday I slapped in a 3300mah 3s and was banging around the sky, with the added wieght I was not flying tail heavy any more, and it was just all around more stable and fun. I did inverted loops, loops, Cuban 8's, humpty bumps, inverted figure 8's, hammer heads (more like hammer flop overs), and even managed a few seconds of hover. Most was done at full throttle with a c pack motor and apc 9x6 prop. Wing did not fold.