Re: Double strand motors?

From: ray_harlan <rbharlan_at_comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 13:14:43 -0000

To embelish a couple of replies, you can get larger motors from 1/8 stock rubber, which FAI seems to focus on these days. And, as Mark points out, the knots are much smaller. I don't think the multi-strand motor is any more efficient; it's just convenient to use rubber at hand.

Ray

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "torqueburner" <beammeup42@...> wrote:
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> At our recent state Science Olympiad competition, I saw one helicopter that was flown on what appeared to be a motor made from two strands of thinner rubber - is there an advantage to this, as opposed to a single loop of thicker rubber?
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> Dave Drummer
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