Re: Re: Dome flying session

From: William Gowen <wdgowen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 16:33:25 -0400

Solving the rubber either falling off or stopping the prop is the fun
part of A-6! I use motors up to 22" on mine.

On 5/8/2012 4:27 PM, ray_harlan wrote:
>
> Aki,
>
> What you might need is some very small O Rings, made from nylon. If
> the hole is big enough to get it over the hooks, yet small enough so
> that, as the rubber unwinds and the crossection grows, it will hold
> the O Ring in place when the rubber is nearly deadstick and won't fall
> off a hook.
>
> Also I think hooks should be somewhat closed. The bottom leg of rear
> hooks should be angled upward; Prop shaft hooks should be bent around
> so the U is nearly closed and the end should be bent outward away from
> the axis of the shaft. This makes hooking up easy, yet the rubber
> won't come off. And never make a diamond-shapd hook. Rubber
> consistently climbs up and you never know which leg.
>
> Ray
>
> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:Indoor_Construction%40yahoogroups.com>, "Akihiro Danjo"
> <adanjo-373_at_...> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Bill san.
> > There was another very good A-6 flight on 6 May.
> > At the flight, my model climbed to about 45m, just below the ceiling
> lights.
> > I had thought it must be perfect, easy to do over 11 mins and might be
> > possible to do 12 mins.
> > But it did not become so. About 9mins at about 20m high, the rubber
> came off
> > the prop shaft and my model began falling. The time was only 9
> mins+.... The
> > rubber for cat4 is very long, so we have to be very lucky to get good
> > record.
> > Your battle must be pleasant very much. Have fun at USIC, too !
> > Good flying, Aki
> >
>
>
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