This venture started some while ago and as time has been granted via lockdown, I’ve ended up getting adding more detail just to pass the time and practice CAD.
If it flies, I’ll share the files and parts list for anyone who’d like to print it, it’s taken time to just get the drawing right for everything to fit. I’ve had to tweak the parts in Assembly without which you’d run several hours of printing to only find parts don’t fit…ask me how I know, learnt from being lazy…
After a fair bit of printing with no strange outcome, this happened during a slight mod to the top.
It appears I hit a a dodgy part of the filament which resulted in this failure. I have since stored the filament in the airing cupboard and will test it later.
I chickened out of printing the XT30 as part of the main frame as this part requires a completely different print profile and it’s failure would mean loosing ~5-6Hr of printing. Now printed as a bolt on part.
That’s why I love designing, you never get bored, the down side is you might run out of season to fly.
Next project is forming with simulations spinning around in my head but it looks like I’ll be playing with paint and brushes to keep her indoors sweet…
