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More Foamy Crack
Foamies are definitely addicting. Here are three new ones, the orange/green version is the new Lite Crack Yak from Twisted Hobbies. 5.6oz ready to fly, great for indoor flight. I was able to get a couple of unprinted standard Crack Yaks from TH and Gary Pierson (flyboyz43) painted them for me. Unbelievable airbrush skills. The round thing started life as a Crazy Bird and I left off the beak & feathers.
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Oh man... that paint is truly awesome! Sick lookin Crack Yak bro! Love the white flames in the leading edge...
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The standard CY comes without gear. The Light CY uses 3mm flat carbon stock with a short piece of CF rod that you wrap with thread and CA to form the axle. You don't need to buy it separately, a piece of 3mm flat stock and a piece of 1.5mm rod and you'll have enough for quite a few planes.
There's a piece of 1mm ply that's inserted vertically into the fuselage bottom piece. One landing gear goes in front of the ply piece and up into a pre cut slit in the wing. The other goes behind the ply piece and when you're satisfied they're level you wrap the ply center piece/gear legs and hit with CA. Pretty tough to get a picture of it, but this should give you the idea. I built this stock because that's what the kit had, but for most of my light builds if I use a gear I just use a piece of 1.5mm CF rod. If you quickly lay a soldering iron on the CF it will melt the epoxy matrix, hold it at the angle you need for the axle and hit it with CA, now you have a one piece LG as light as you can possibly get. Azarr |
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Last edited by Azarr; Oct 15, 2012 at 04:09 PM.
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A lot of the cheap plastic kites use 3/32 FG spars. If you wait till the "marts" close them out you can get them cheaper than buying the spars from a kite store Azarr |
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Last edited by Azarr; Dec 19, 2012 at 06:53 AM.
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That would make sense for your stuff. I like the idea of the fuel tubing, serves 2 purposes, removable and shock absorbing. I really like the FG rod over the larger diameter CF, very little weight penalty and much cheaper. Last time I checked, the kite shops were selling it $1,75 for 48". Might make a good optional accessory package for your kits.
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