Handy Tips?

= Introduction =

Looking for a way to build something, scratching your head about the best way this should be the first port of call. Have you learned something that you think should be shown to all then put it here as well.

= General Tips =

Pushrods Making Them
Pushrods attach to a servo and a moving surface. It is usual, common, to make a Z bend to "loop" through the arm on the servo. Special pliers are available and HobbyKing supply a good tool cheaply. An alternative is a snake bend.

What are they and how to make snake bends. Basically they are a Z bend that bends left or right instead of being linear. This means you can use large pliers because you are not trying to hold the little short part of the bend with pliers the same size as it is, when doing the second bend.

= Balsa Tips =

= Composite Tips =

= Foam Tips =

= Tool Tips =

= Vacuum Forming =

A Guide to Vacuum Forming. Mentioned on RCGroups, this is the origin of that manual.

Note - they talk of 27" of mercury, 30" is about atmospheric pressure. Incidentally the lowest recorded was about 26" during a typhoon. Other non metric measurements of atmospheric pressure, about 15 psi.

The PDF (link above) gives temperatures and working conditions for a range of plastics that are likely to be used for Parkflyers.