Post by callun on Jun 29, 2008 11:37:35 GMT 10
Hey all,
"What's this??" you may ask; "A post in the build thread from Callun?!?!!". Yes. Well kinda.
As some of you may remember, some time ago, Steve and I imported a JW60 each. I eagerly began construction, while Steve was distracted with trivial matters such as family, and driving across the country.
I approached this build with such vigour, I got to the point of constructing and pouring my own ballast system (with Steve's guidance) and, that all went swimmingly, and only took a few days. But not long after that, my wheels fell off and it sat on my bench in a state of rather sad-looking incomplete... ness for several months.
The mirrorball is for feng-shui okay? You should get one for your work bench too!
Well, something happened last night!
With the girlfriend out of town for the weekend (yes, she's partly why I fell off the radar, I'm whipped, it's okay) I dutifuly measured up the ballast tube, and carefully marked its revolutionary location - against (nearly) all advice, I'm sinking it in a North-South orientation, in the underside of the fuse.
Each slug of lead works out at nearly precisely 80g, so what you see there is about 640g worth of ballast. People have called this idea crazy because of the sensitivity of these craft to CG, but, the way I figure it, you don't know til you've tried it, and that's how I roll.
The beauty of the JW is that you can bench-fly it nearly straight out of the box, which gives you a great sense of what it's going to look like (if you've not had much to do with them in person, just video.
So I did just that.
It's presently still in two pieces - wing and fuse - but with the ballast tube being nearly done, I'm a big psychological barrier closer to completing this, and this thread should help people crack the whip on me too, keep me honest.
I'm out to prove you mouldy-old pretty-boy Carbon-bird-brain dsers that you better move over k? Callun's comin to show you how it's done
Now where the hell is my Tx? I need to get that POS fixed
"What's this??" you may ask; "A post in the build thread from Callun?!?!!". Yes. Well kinda.
As some of you may remember, some time ago, Steve and I imported a JW60 each. I eagerly began construction, while Steve was distracted with trivial matters such as family, and driving across the country.
I approached this build with such vigour, I got to the point of constructing and pouring my own ballast system (with Steve's guidance) and, that all went swimmingly, and only took a few days. But not long after that, my wheels fell off and it sat on my bench in a state of rather sad-looking incomplete... ness for several months.
The mirrorball is for feng-shui okay? You should get one for your work bench too!
Well, something happened last night!
With the girlfriend out of town for the weekend (yes, she's partly why I fell off the radar, I'm whipped, it's okay) I dutifuly measured up the ballast tube, and carefully marked its revolutionary location - against (nearly) all advice, I'm sinking it in a North-South orientation, in the underside of the fuse.
Each slug of lead works out at nearly precisely 80g, so what you see there is about 640g worth of ballast. People have called this idea crazy because of the sensitivity of these craft to CG, but, the way I figure it, you don't know til you've tried it, and that's how I roll.
The beauty of the JW is that you can bench-fly it nearly straight out of the box, which gives you a great sense of what it's going to look like (if you've not had much to do with them in person, just video.
So I did just that.
It's presently still in two pieces - wing and fuse - but with the ballast tube being nearly done, I'm a big psychological barrier closer to completing this, and this thread should help people crack the whip on me too, keep me honest.
I'm out to prove you mouldy-old pretty-boy Carbon-bird-brain dsers that you better move over k? Callun's comin to show you how it's done
Now where the hell is my Tx? I need to get that POS fixed