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Design => Stunt design => Topic started by: phil c on May 06, 2008, 10:39:49 AM
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I just found a great idea for making tip weights, especially for the equal panel length fans and the scale-like stunters. Since lead is so heavy, use aluminum instead!!
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Wow---what a great idea!!!
Would it work for nose or tail weights??? No telling how much that will save........ S?P H^^
Cheers,
Jim
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Phil
If you use it on combat models and paint it to look like lead the other contestants could be fooled into using too much tipwt. You could win on air time alone.
Steve
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Uh, yea. Sure.
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Leave out the tipweight entirely. Fill the inner wing panel with helium instead.
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Leave out the tipweight entirely. Fill the inner wing panel with helium instead.
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Nah, you have to put it in a sealed tip weight box, Helium will find any leak path and leak out! LL~
Roger V.
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lead is roughly 2 lb/cubic inch, alum about .1. So 20 times the volume of alum needed to equal lead. A 1/4 ounce alum tip wt would be a 5/8 square bar about 2" long. Quite a blob, but easily installed inside a PA or Combat wing.
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If you use aluminum the resolution for fine tuning tip weight would be much higher.
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If you use aluminum the resolution for fine tuning tip weight would be much higher.
Gee, I thought the tip weight went on the inboard wing!
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The Jive Combat Team uses gold.
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Howard...what does the Jive Stunt Team use for tipweight? LL~ Steve
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Everbody knows that a 1/2A plane usually uses 2 pennies for tip weight. So for bigger planes one can
use five dollar bills. If a couple of those doesn't work, take em out and use 10 dollar bills, or 20's etc....
I tried blobs for tip weight too, but the problem is the whole plane will turn into a blob.
If you want to save weight for the tip weight, use water. Eventually it will evaporate, and will weigh
nothing. Bottled water is probably better. But money seems to work better, although it's value
changes throughout the day.
Has anyone tried diamonds? Is it safe? Is it safe?
Stan Bidowski