Bipeguy03
150cc
Quite a bit got accomplished the last 2 days.
I bought some 1/8" shock cord awhile back to make my bungees out of, but ran across the problem of figuring out how to get the ends to hold together under the stretched load I needed for the Krier's landing gear. So the solution for now is Women's pony tail holders, 4 per side of the thimble hooked on one, stretched around the other and hooked back on the same side. This gave good tension while still leaving enough for stretch for some shock absorption.
They are wrapped around the thimbles just like full scale bungees are wrapped.
I then enlisted the help of my mom, and her sewing skills to make my leather bungee cover bag.
After a couple of tries, we got a good looking leather bag held on with Velcro. Should keep dirt, oil and grime of the bungee's and hopefully make them last longer.
Installed on the gear,
Then I put the wheel's and pants together for the last time. I made a bushing for the wheels out of 7/32" brass tubing, which is a slip fit over the 3/16" wire axel, and reamed the hole in the wheel out to fit the brass tube. Then just assembled everything with Locktite. After the gear was put on the wing, I got the wheel pants set to the right angle and tightened down the mounting screws, which FINISHES the bottom wing!
Next was putting the main radio back in, here is where all of the prep work I did before covering paid off. I put some grease on the elevator push rod because it was squeaking, and re ran the rudder cables. Then I put the 94851 servos in the tray, used Velcro to hold the receiver down and outer pushrod tube to hold the antenna wires. Zip ties hold the servo wires up nice and neat and the hole radio unit is self contained.
8 screws, and re attach all of the control connections and the radio is installed and pre-rigged! With all the prep work I did, this literally only took 15 minutes
The fun part of any build, and also a signal you're getting close to being done (well for me at least) creating the radio program and naming the model
Unfortunately I don't have enough characters to have Krier Kraft, so just Krier will have to do lol
I bought some 1/8" shock cord awhile back to make my bungees out of, but ran across the problem of figuring out how to get the ends to hold together under the stretched load I needed for the Krier's landing gear. So the solution for now is Women's pony tail holders, 4 per side of the thimble hooked on one, stretched around the other and hooked back on the same side. This gave good tension while still leaving enough for stretch for some shock absorption.
They are wrapped around the thimbles just like full scale bungees are wrapped.
I then enlisted the help of my mom, and her sewing skills to make my leather bungee cover bag.
After a couple of tries, we got a good looking leather bag held on with Velcro. Should keep dirt, oil and grime of the bungee's and hopefully make them last longer.
Installed on the gear,
Then I put the wheel's and pants together for the last time. I made a bushing for the wheels out of 7/32" brass tubing, which is a slip fit over the 3/16" wire axel, and reamed the hole in the wheel out to fit the brass tube. Then just assembled everything with Locktite. After the gear was put on the wing, I got the wheel pants set to the right angle and tightened down the mounting screws, which FINISHES the bottom wing!
Next was putting the main radio back in, here is where all of the prep work I did before covering paid off. I put some grease on the elevator push rod because it was squeaking, and re ran the rudder cables. Then I put the 94851 servos in the tray, used Velcro to hold the receiver down and outer pushrod tube to hold the antenna wires. Zip ties hold the servo wires up nice and neat and the hole radio unit is self contained.
8 screws, and re attach all of the control connections and the radio is installed and pre-rigged! With all the prep work I did, this literally only took 15 minutes
The fun part of any build, and also a signal you're getting close to being done (well for me at least) creating the radio program and naming the model
Unfortunately I don't have enough characters to have Krier Kraft, so just Krier will have to do lol
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