Posts Tagged ‘HBK2’
RC helis, HBK2 and others- repair your plastic linkages in a fix..With test flight..
Ok, so I keep having small pieces of plastic snap on me, so I keep fixing them until they either no longer break or no longer contain enough of the original piece to continue considering it a ‘repair’ and not a ‘full fabrication’ 🙂 I will show you some of my favorite stuff to fix things with from around the house to parts on your helis, hell the possibilities are endless. What you need- Polyurethane casting resin (I use Max CLR, cheap and effective- look up the specs online to see what it can do!) plastic cups rubber gloves cardboard or paper for work surface (This stuff is messy and it will never come out!) Mixing cup (disposable cups of various sizes work best, you will not be able to use your mixing cup again after this, so go cheap and disposable) something to mix with, plastic knife or similar spatula-like utensil. Flat works best to keep air bubbles out of the mixture. Tinfoil or some sort of release-paper/film Something that is broken Something to grind and sand with- dremel tool is recommended Patience Carbon fiber helps…is sometimes necessary to fix thin pieces of plastic to original strength. I had to use a sliver of scrap carbon fiber to fix this link, the urethane may have been strong enough on its own, had I not reassembled things too quickly and given her a test spool-up, which promptly undid all of the work you see in the vid, but in about 10 minutes I had another batch mixed and I did the same thing only this time to be safe I ground one side of the …
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