New Flex Plates
 

I am building a hand full of Titanium flex plates for a friends Super Bandit..

The Material is 6Al-4V Titanium witch is very very strong and light...

I was just going to make a few of them but does any body else want some..

They are $75 per plane (six pieces) mostly because of the Material cost..


Eddie Weeks

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Those are very cool. I wonder where this moves the fail point to?

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Hey Eddie,

Will these flex plates fit the Balsa Bandit? Besides being very light and strong, does titanium exhibit more resiliency?

Skeet =5][/size]

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LOL - I know watcha mean ... a fellow clubmember kept bending the wire struts on a pattern plane when landing it, so came up with the perfect solution ... titanium gear legs. Sure enough, they didn't bend on the next "landing" - tore the whole darn wing apart instead !

Gordon

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My initial question sounds kinda jerky, I did not mean it that way!

I have seen reinforced flex plates hold up to some incredible loads in a composite bandit, the structure is very strong. I just wonder how it will finally fail.


My guess is it would pull the mounting blocks apart, which might not be too bad. The old failure mode always cracked the top of the wing.

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I doubled up the rear carbon fiber plates on my Bandit and never had another failure. My experience was the strut tended to bend on the less than perfect landings. The structure is very strong. Easier to replace bent metal than bent paint.:D

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Titanium wings next :D

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I would much rather replace or straighten a strut rather then have to do paint work to the wing. It will take a real pounding to tear up the mounting points for the flex plates in the composite wing. The Titanium has a nice flex to it count me in for a set :D

Phil

I dont want to spot this wing in if I can help it!

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Well said. Eddie I will take a set as well. Paypal or what?

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I would never need these since I always make perfect landings, I just think they would "look" good.
Gimme a set, I wanna make my SB look better!!!
Where do I send money.
Scott

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With the pattern airplane struts at least.. we found the titanium wouldn't bend but instead would just break. It took a lot more force to actually break them than steel but they never bent.

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You guys are just landing to hard! :D

(I never failed a flex plate in my Balsa Bandit)....

Interesting discussion anyway... Nice to see folks that realise eventually... something fails....

David

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They will get cut this week and installed next week.

When I am satisfied that they fit and are strong enough I will
start shipping....

I guess I will just take my friends Brand New Super Bandit and
drop it from lets say, 1-2 feet.. That should be a good test...
I don't think he will mind... hahah

Eddie Weeks

[email protected]

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He shouldn't mind......he was dropping it from higher than that this weekend!

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LMAO

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Look what I found....

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Poor Eddie, for the first time this past weekend I've considered believing their might be something to learn from those backwoods MS boys! While your skill landing downwind with no gear .................. in the grass ............... is second to none, I think them MS boys might have something on you for once (landing on the runway in the right direction [:o] )

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You guy's crack me up.

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A picture of Eddie as a baby

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And his first poker game

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His new Tattoo

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His new palm pilot

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The new Weeks family swimming pool

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And for entertainment a good old fashion Lousyana game of horseshoes

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Followed by a ride on one of Eddies newest creations......what an active imagination Eddie has!

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And.......the truck air conditioner...keeps it real cool!

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Damn, I was gonna mention that the downwind landing with no gear and on the grass was also in part due to an AMT engine failure, but David has covered so many bases... [:o]

Only thing I can think is that Eddie is not responding cause he's working on his Flux Capacitor powered Spread Spectrum Tazer Phezzer, however last I heard it needed more beer.

David, I have no idea how you're gonna avoid that bolt of lightning ;)

Had an awesome time with you guys this weekend. Lookin forward to next time.

Sean

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David's prom date and later his car alarm.

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Mississippi Gang medical terms:D:D:D



> > Benign ................ What you be after you be eight.
> >
> > Bacteria ............... Back door to cafeteria.
> >
> > Barium ................. What you do with dead folks.
> >
> > Cesarean Section ....... A neighborhood in Rome.
> >
> > Catscan ................ Searching for the cat.
> >
> > Cauterize .......... Made eye contact with her.
> >
> > Colic ............... A sheep dog.
> >
> > Coma ............... A punctuation mark.
> >
> > D&C ................ Where Washington is.
> >
> > Dilate ............. To live longer than your kids do.
> >
> > Enema ............. Not a friend.
> >
> > Fester ............ Quicker than someone else.
> >
> > Fibula ............ A small lie.
> >
> > G.I.Series ......... World Series of military baseball.
> >
> > Hangnail ........... What you hang your coat on.
> >
> > Impotent ........... Distinguished, well known.
> >
> > Labor Pain .......... Getting hurt at work.
> >
> > Morbid .............. A higher offer than I bid.
> >
> > Nitrates ............ Cheaper than day rates.
> >
> > Medical Staff ....... A Doctor's cane, sometimes shown with a snake.
> >
> > Node .................... I knew it.
> >
> > Outpatient .............. A person who has fainted.
> >
> > Pap Smear ................ A fatherhood test.
> >
> > Pelvis ................... Second cousin to Elvis.
> >
> > Post Operative ........... A letter carrier.
> >
> > Recovery Room .... Place to do upholstery.
> >
> > Secretion ....... Hiding something.
> >
> > Tablet .......... A small table to change babies on.
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> > Seizure .......... Roman emperor who lived in the Ceasarean Section.
> >
> > Terminal Illness .... Getting sick at the train station.
> >
> > Tumor ............... More than one.
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> > Urine ............... Opposite of mine.
> >
> > Varicose ............ Near by.
> >
> > Hospital ............ The biggest building in town, other than Ed's feed
> > warehouse.
> >

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Eddie and Phil as Superheros......Eddies the one on the right!

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Picture of Eddie circa 2034 flying is second VTOL via his patented "MINDMITTER"

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Lousyana Recreation area

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I think this may have been Phil?

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I thinks this is David at 3 years old.

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Some of his first baths.

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I NEVER had that much hair!

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Yea... This is more like you.

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too funny. especially the mullet shots.

jeez us my side aches

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you can get them teeth fixed for free in England with the National Health Service :D

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Back to the flex plates... I just got a price on really stiff Titanium 6AL-4V
and it was over $700... Looks like I will be making them from Grade 2 Titanium.

The only problem with Grade 2 is there is a chance you can bend it on a hard landing
but then it may be fine..

We can test them in David Reid's planes because then we will not have
to wait long for a rough landing... I will have a bunch at Miss AB
but I don't know how well they will work.. We will see..

Eddie Weeks


ps... can any one get me some 6AL-4V Titanium (small pieces) 3/32" and 1/8" thick.. thanks