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Thanks for the great write up Shorty.
Very good sailing by the pointy end of the fleet in the conditions that we had today.
Following is my hat cam footage of Race 2:
Gee Hoppy, for a moment, it looked like the hovercraft was going to take you out!!!
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Hat cam footage of race 5.
This is the one where Bodge could have gone out to lunch when he finished waiting for all of us to catch up!
Yes, Andrew’s plane flew very well. I reckon he is happy with it and we’ll get to see it flying at the field a lot more.
Yes Gerald. A few starts and stops on the inside wing pieces as they kept on lifting at the skinny end.
However, I came up with a working solution.
In original position on the bed, the skinny end is not very close to the heating element and I measured the temp at that point to be 25-30 deg. I think the cooler temp causes that end to lift as the job progresses.
I resized the printing area to 300 x 300, moved the job to the center of the bed and increased the bed temp. The fibreglass sheet seems to drop the surface temp by about 10 deg. I also roughed up the area where the skinny end is printed with sandpaper and applied a bit of glue stick.
The print comes out perfect and you almost need a crowbar to lift the skinny end when the job is complete! 🙂
Amazing what a bit of CA, CA kicker and 3D printing can do….
I was able to repair the fuselage and only needed to reprint the wings 🙂
Yes, the slow motion is excellent. So, I reckon the prop broke when it hit the ground. Surprisingly, the bottom of the fuselage where the wing connected is not damaged at all so the rubber bands must have done their job.
