hootowl
Elite Veteran
Location: Garnet Valley, Pa.
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| Hootowl, When you have a little more experience in the aircraft industry you will realise that carbon will not form a stress crack, so as time passes nothing on the heli will change due to frame flex. 17 years as an airframe tech.
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Been in manufacturing all my life. 10 years of it at Boeing with a major part of that time involved with 767, 777 fixed leading edge manufacture (much of which is composites) and the V-22 Osprey of which is mainly carbon fiber.
Composites can delaminate when subjected to continuous vibration induced flexing. I shouldn't have said "crack". Yes, the composites can take an awful lot of shaking and not be effected.
What type of airframes do you work on?
r/chelisrme,
There is a difference in power available with this mod. I'm not just saying this, I am experiencing it. All axial loads now run on properly raced thrust bearings instead of bearings designed for radial loads. They are 10mm. I got them here or you can find them at Ricks.
No it's not possible that my thrust bearing mod is causing more flexing. The original bearings are still there.
Those new Align metal bearing blocks look great. Looks like they have a retainer for the bearings instead of using a locktited press fit. See the four screws?
These would be a nice addition to my thrust bearing mod. The thrust bearing would be sitting on a nice flat metal surface instead of a split between two plastic halves.
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It flies just fine and I am sure your main blades flex more than the frame in the air.
