27% 170B build

[falco]

you got all that done in 100 hours? dang.

If you can come up with a 3D model of the yoke I'll make you a couple on my 3d printer.

[canav8]

I wouldn't know where to begin on how/where to create a model of the yokes. I'm a lead and vellum kind of guy, but let me research what it will take to get a model made up as I really appreciate the offer and would be stoked since I know it will come out better than what I can do by hand!

I didnt know we had somebody with a 3d printer. Can the 3d printer use acad or ai files to produce 3d images?

[canav8]

you got all that done in 100 hours? dang.

Curiosity got the best of me so I charted the hours I've logged making expensive balsa dust. Interesting to see most of the time was at the beginning of the project, and now I'm working on it much more sporadically.

Timesheet.jpg

I'm too embarrassed to share the total cost so far. I still have to buy the engine, which should be the last expensive item as long as I don't go off buying new radio gear. I guess you can't put a price on happiness, right?

STOP YOUR WHINING. You get to build on your kitchen table while all the rest of us have to do things out in the hangar and you have your wifes approval.... Geeesh.

[Ryan Smith]

...I guess you can't put a price on happiness, right?

You can. We all just choose to ignore it!

[falco]

I wouldn't know where to begin on how/where to create a model of the yokes. I'm a lead and vellum kind of guy, but let me research what it will take to get a model made up as I really appreciate the offer and would be stoked since I know it will come out better than what I can do by hand!

I didnt know we had somebody with a 3d printer. Can the 3d printer use acad or ai files to produce 3d images?

I have access to a makerbot. Its an FDM printer that uses ABS or PLA. Essentially its a computer controlled hotmelt glue gun. The included software feeds on .stl files, many ways to convert all manner of 3d files to .stl form.

[johneeb]

Thanks Arash!

[DWood]

Arash
This is just too cool!
You are one heck of a craftsman
Thanks for sharing as it is so much fun to watch your progress.
Dan

[Bruce Fenstermacher]

Arash, I think you might have this hole a bit to low.

[170C]

Be sure that flap handle has the correct notches in it 10%;20%;30% & possibly 40% Congratulations on the early Christmas present. You project is truly awesome

[n2582d]

you got all that done in 100 hours? dang.

If you can come up with a 3D model of the yoke I'll make you a couple on my 3d printer.

I think you need to go to the hospital and get a full body CT scan, download their file, convert the file to something a 3-D printer can read, reduce it to 27%, and have Falco print out a miniature you! Make sure you're seated and add some hinges in the shoulder and elbow so one hand can grip the yoke and the other the flap handle.

[bagarre]

Are you linking the yoke to the ailerons? Cuz it wouldn't be too hard to hook the flaps to the flap lever with an extra micro servo.

How concerned are you with weight? The few scale builds I've seen (very few) were 'over gross' and didn't fly to scale on landing.

[n3833v]

I must make a comment that this is one model that has caught my attention because of the detail and the patience that has gone into the project . It is also a "170" that will keep the limelight for time to come . I hope that you don't have a crash to have to cry over it . Good Luck.

John

[hilltop170]

Arash, I echo John's comment above. Are you really going to fly that plane?

[buzzlatka]

Get it done quickly so you can fly it in the back of your 170 to the STL convention.

[GAHorn]

My wife looked through the thread and said the scale/size of the plane doesn't really come through in the pictures I post. She wanted to take a pic next to it and who am I to refuse?

I can think of so many nice things to say about the tail, and the legs, and empennage.... but I'd be afraid of being misunderstood...