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Well then, the Version 2 Savage Bobber (Lite) is finally completed & ready to Maiden.
I tend to think I may have gone too light this time and the whole thing may collapse with the stress of flying, oh well.
This time its around 1/2 the weight , all up flying weight is now 1080gm (inc 1300mAh 3S LiPo), it has a more powerful motor and now spins a 2 blade 8 x 4 prop rather than the original 3 blade 6 x 3 prop.
I’ve also beefed up the undercarriage & fitted fatter black TPU tyres in place of the skinny red ones.
The original, which would probably have flown well with this new motor/prop setup, is now hanging in Kermit’s museum dedicated to things that did & things that didn’t.
No good for me Wednesday as we are getting the carpets cleaned.
Looks like it will be a nice day so I expect lots of quality videos.
Not a bad video Mr Frog but the crowd on the jetty was sadly lacking in numbers.
Nice to see you win the best video this week, even if it was by default.
Perhaps I better get motivated & come down next Saturday, at least that way the calendar will get put up to let everyone know that sailing is actually on!!
Maybe I’ll start off small and either bring the Badger II or Imposter.
Nice video.
I wont be flying Friday as we will be up north at Agfest.
Could be available Thursday if weather is OK.
Oh by the way if anyone would like the original model (minus all electrics) as a static model to hang in a Man Cave or workshop then let me know as it will soon be surplus to requirements.
Well the rainy weather looks like its back again for a little while so its a perfect time to rebuild my 3D printed Savage Bobber RC plane.
As most of you know the previous version (whilst looking great) was just too heavy to fly successfully but at least it was a good test to work out how to modify the various print files (a lot of which were either incomplete (or just wrong) to easily print with my Bambu X1 Carbon printer.
Still using regular PLA again this time rather than the LW PLA (just because). So far I have only reprinted the main wing but at this stage its looking to be at least 10% lighter than the original.
After much experimenting I have finally developed a print profile that provides a 0.72mm wall thickness that is a good compromise of lightness without compromising physical strength (and it can still print at around 200mm/s on outer walls & 300mm/s on inner walls.
I can get the wall thickness down to 0.3mm using “Vase Mode” but for the life of me I can’t work out how to retain all the internal wing structures in Vase Mode so I now have 0.3mm internal & external wall with 0.12mm infill @ 15% (total 0.72mm).
The majority of the weight loss is expected in the fuselage as this was the first bit I originally printed pretty much just from supplied files just to see how heavy it actually was.
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Looks like a great day was had by all even if it was cold.
Great videos all round.
Happy Birthday for Wednesday GG
Yes Mr Kermit, plenty of content this week, some great flying & some even greater videos.
Always good when the weather is kind.
At this stage its looking like Tue, Wed or Thu for flying in the coming week.
