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Building Tips and technical articles. => Building techniques => Topic started by: Tim Wescott on August 13, 2014, 08:01:22 PM
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This is for a "quick and dirty" test pig. Two machined pieces of aluminum, screwed & glued onto a phenolic bellcrank, with a shaft pressed through the middle.
Is there an over-engineers anonymous?
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Tim,, if there is,, you should know being the president and all,,
of course Randy and Pat might argue I am vice pres ( though I have learned)
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Doesn't look extreme to me. A thin phenolic bellcrank doesn't have enough bearing surface to last very long.
I would have done the same.
F.C.
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Hey, after losing a plane to a under-engineered bellcrank, I want one I can lift my car with.
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Doesn't look extreme to me. A thin phenolic bellcrank doesn't have enough bearing surface to last very long.
I would have done the same.
F.C.
I was also trying to achieve a bellcrank that wouldn't rock.
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Elegant actually, definitely not a brick outhouse.
Phil
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For a disposable test plane, why not a top flite 3 inch nylon bellcrank? The one you made looks ready for a Nats plane.
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For a disposable test plane, why not a top flite 3 inch nylon bellcrank? The one you made looks ready for a Nats plane.
I wanted a four inch. I have several 3" ones -- but I wanted 4".
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Well, Tim, I have a grossly over-engineered carbon fiber bellcrank I make. I could send you one of those.