Re: Fwd: Bill Gowen's F1M
Gary
You're probably right about the knots.
There's another accidental benefit involved. My high ceiling F1M motors - which I've made a lot of - are usually in the .075 to .080 range. The left over part of the strand can sometimes be used either for A6, F1L or a 3 strand F1M motor depending on the thickness of the off-cut.
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Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 10:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Indoor_Construction] Fwd: Bill Gowen's F1M
Bill,
Thanks for that clarification. I have heard of even numbers of strands, but never odd, before. It seems to me that one knot (as would be required for an even numbr of strands) would use less rubber than two knots (as required with an odd number of srtands).
Gary
No. I really haven't seen a difference. I've had a couple of exceptional 2 strand motors and a couple of exceptional 3 strand motors. These were all about the same length and had about the same characteristics from max turns and torque through the entire unwinding curve. I've also used 4 strand motors that didn't seem to be much different from 2 strand motors.
The 3 strand motors were a 2007 experiment to see if I could use less rubber in the knots compared to a 2 strand motor. I really don't know if they were successful in that regard. What I know for sure is that I hit a really good stretch of 3/02 rubber that produced some outstanding motors. I used a 3 strand motor to do the site record at USIC 2007, a 2 strand one to do the 2007 WR and a 3 strand one to do the 2009 WR - all from the last little bit of that batch of 3/02.
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