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My partner has purchased a JP Perkins Sky lift twister (Chinook) does any one have any ideas of how to strengthen the blades, as when you are learning to fly it you seem to go through hundreds of blades. They are made of plastic and extremely brittle?

annietommo Thurs 31/07/08 13:15

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Hymie
Fri 01/08/08
17:45

When I was a child – my brother and I amused ourselves by shooting at suspended Airfix models with an air pellet gun. The models were rapidly reduced to fragments, having been carefully constructed from kits.

I found that by painting the models with a coating of the cement, used to glue the models together, significantly increased the resilience of the plastic to withstand the pellet impacts.

Coating the blades in a similar way may significantly strengthen them, but may also change their aerodynamic properties, such that the helicopter will not fly.

hundreddolla
Wed 13/08/08
11:59

'Coating the blades in a similar way may significantly strengthen them, but may also change their aerodynamic properties, such that the helicopter will not fly.'

Completely correct.

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