Re: Re: F1D rules change proposal

From: Jake Palmer <82.jake_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 11:25:04 -0800

BOM rules don't prevent you from selling molds.


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:34 AM, mkirda_at_sbcglobal.net
<mkirda_at_sbcglobal.net>wrote:

>
>
> Hi Joshua.
>
> First of all, as the starter in many ways of this thread, I wanted to
> share a simple perspective.
>
> As a novice F1D builder, I wanted to make a prop. So I grabbed a hunk of
> wood and started carving a block. After several hours, I stopped and
> thought "There must be a better way." I did some searching and found the
> bandsaw fixture for cutting prop blocks. I have a bandsaw, I found a source
> for the blades and made fixture and sawed up a few.
>
> For a while, I looked at that fixture and thought "What a waste!". Someone
> else could easily use it to make blocks too. I provide them as a service to
> the hobby at large basically for free. I *might* have broken even on my
> expenses at this point. The truth is I am happy to do this because I enjoy
> it.
>
> I saw Brett's carbon blades at Johnson City. I thought they were cool, but
> they were beyond me. He finally wrote the article on making them. I was
> lucky enough to get the carbon when it was available. I got the ProSet
> epoxy when it wasn't in gallons. I have fiberglass from my other model
> making activities - I had some experience with composites, mostly in RC
> gliders. Buying everything, I am out a few hundred bucks.
>
> In the end, I made up several molds and have carbon prop outlines on my
> bench ready to be made up into props.
>
> Now I look at those molds and think "What a waste!. Someone else could be
> benefiting from them..."
>
> Regards.
> Mike Kirda
>
>
> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, <joshuawfinn_at_...> wrote:
> >
> > If you want technology on your model that cannot be accessed without
> going over the minimum weight, then that's your problem. I shouldn't have
> to build heavier just so you can have more gadgets which will make my
> models uncompetitive so that I have to buy or build your gadgets.
> >
> > Good flying,
> > Joshua Finn
> >
>
>
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