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Umi_Ryuzuki -> RE: Variable Pitch Props?? (1/1/2004 9:56 PM)
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I think you misunderstand me, I have a lot of Ideas, but someone else
usually brings them to market right after I build a prototype.
Which means someone else had the Idea years before me.
The plans you posted kind of point that out Kmot.
I designed a lawn aerator, and gave a prototype to my
brother-in-law. It was designed to pop a "lawn plug" out of a
small yard and the home owner could aerate the lawn without
renting or buying a huge machine.
The next year the "weedpopper" came out. How annoying is that?
Same little design, but different use, and mass marketed.
I am obviously six years slow in the market place don't you think?
Think the "George Foreman Grill" is a new Idea?[:)]
However, I have a small model kit in production
A workbee from Star Trek.
It started off as a joke. I told a bunch of guys that they should make
little car bodies that looked like shuttle craft. Then that the shuttles
should be "Work Bees", so that they could have cargo races, or
play "hungy hungy Hippo" and see who could get the most boxes
to their side of the table.
They said, "Ha ha ha, you do it."
I came back two days later with a working model.
http://groups.msn.com/ModelersAndHobbyForum/workbees.msnw
I got six e-mails asking if I was going to produce a kit, I said,
"No, it's too easy to do yourself." One guy was really persistent,
so I embarked on a mastering and casting endeavor. Once I got
started, it became evident that if all I did was finish the bottom of
the master to "model quality" I could sell kits also.
Suddenly it was a whole new idea. I decided to add manipulator arms, and
then I devised a way to attach the manipulator arms to the model with out
glue. Magnets and a small metal plate. It took two months to master, and
build the vacuum and pressure casting chamber. And once I had a
dozen finished I sent out three demos. One of the guys posted the
demo on a BBS system and now I make 30 bucks a month.[:D]
And it really was only a joke, "make an R/C star trek shuttle craft. "
Remember my slow mind?,... Those R/C ones, they don't sell!
But the people that got those versions as demos say they are
real show stoppers in their collection.
You can buy a kit though.
http://www.federationmodels.com/
ACEng Dual Bee
(Lt Doc,... I'm not a millionaire either)
Aimee
Oh, yeah,...
Bearing races, that's a good Idea. That design is huge 3/4" hub?
I wonder if that could be reduced now a days. Those look like old plans.
Of course trying to squeeze that and three propeller blades in
there might need all that space.
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