Wayne Delisle wrote: > Have you looked at Mark L.'s spinner page?
That spinner page is at http://www.n56ml.com/spinner/. It happens that I made a spinner last weekend, and another one yesterday. I had to make the second one because the first one was floppy (2 layers of 5.85 oz "KR cloth"), and I neglected to put deck cloth on the outside. Both took about 2.5 hours to make, although they are only fiberglass and not nearly as gorgeous as Jeff's carbon fiber one. I thought about making them out of carbon fiber, but carbon fiber is more stubborn about following compound contours (like the nose) in a wet layup, and the CF would be more difficult to match drill to the existing backing plate's nut plates (can't see through it!). And I was a bit more concerned about the tearout at the fasteners, as CF doesn't wear well when thin (although I'd have done like Jeff did...cover it with a fiberglass tape to help with that). The one I made for N56ML lasted just fine the last thousand hours I flew N56ML, with no signs of wear. It weighs just 235 grams, and is two layers of RA5277 9 ounce fiberglass with no other reinforcement. The one I built yesterday is just like it, with a layer of deck cloth on the outside to smooth it all over and reduce the finish work on it. It'll probably take me an hour to smooth it out with micro and sanding, and another hour to fit the blade cutouts (I have a head start with the old spinner) and another hour to match drill the backing plate. As it turns out, Steve Glover sent me a fiberglass fiberglass backing plate that fits the contour of this new spinner, so I'll be using that and saving more weight. See the enclosed photo for the weights and the spinner examples (mine are in the foreground, and the "molds" are in the back). And again, the rest of the story is at http://www.n56ml.com/spinner/. I did get a little more professional about it this time and waxed and PVA'd the spinner rather than duct tape. Note from the enclosed photo that my new spinner (far right) is a less than a third of the weight of the white mold that it was made from. Mark Langford ML at N56ML.com http://www.n56ml.com -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: spinners.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 141641 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://list.krnet.org/mailman/private/krnet_list.krnet.org/attachments/20150413/fb30ebe5/attachment.jpg>
