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  1. During this COVID lock down and losing employment because of it I decide I liked being home and it was time to start my own business. I bought a 3D printer to help with design projects- prototypes etc. It’s been fun trying stuff out, and I’m going to see if I can rebuild my old Revo truck board using printed parts. I’ve designed the main truck housing to use tradition skate truck hole setup as the original Revos have a specific setup which means drilling into your board. I’ve printed this first test setup with PETG, which it the same plastic used in plastic drink bottles. So I’m hoping they will be less prone to shatter and may have a little flex. I also printed the bushings using TPU filament, not an easy thing to get right, damn stuff just wants to keep clogging up the extruder. But I managed to get two pairs done and they are a perfect fit, if a little stiffer than I want at shore 30D. I’m no plastics expert, so I don’t know what to expect when I try them out. The wheels may break as soon as I start kiting, the truck housing could just shatter on my first turn- no idea. But I’ve got new tires and tubes, will re- laminate my favourite board, probably treat myself to some new bindings and see if I can make it work.
  2. Version 1.7.4

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    Foilmaker Installation, Setup, Manual, Profiles & Resources for kite building.
  3. I had a zipper on my 16m venom 2 give up on me last week. Bloody frustrating, as it was the inflate zipper and I was about to launch ?. The slide was so worn out that it won’t close the teeth anymore. anyway, I have fitted new waterproof zips to an arc before, but they can be a bit expensive and hard to find. So I thought it was a good chance to test out a Velcro alternative. its basically just a short sock and Velcro opening similar to the deflates in the flysurfer kites. the Velcro valves work quite well. I inflated the kite and slowly opened the Velcro. No air was escaping until it opened far enough to for the end of the sock to open. Sorry, no pictures before they got sewn in. But a few pointers I worked out for anyone wanting to do this mod. -Make the sock width about 50mm more then the zipper opening in the kite. - place sticky ripstop inside the kite where the zipper stitching was removed. - measure from the opening in the kite to the cell wall, subtract 1cm. This is how long the sock needs to be. -sew the sock in the direction you would use it to inflate the kite (pointing towards the centre) - sew a deflate valve into the trailing edge to replace the deflate zipper.
  4. Yep, I'm thinking of building a light wind kiteboard. This will be my first attempt at building a kiteboard so I'm trying to keep it simple (and cheap), but also don't want to have to build it again after only a few uses. So I'm after a bit of advice and ideas from those who have gone there before. the basic plan a broad 1600mm x 500mm. Use a bottom layer of 4mm hardwood ply brace and a top (smaller) layer of 7mm construction ply. Glue them together with epoxy resin. then coat the entire thing in fibreglass and epoxy resin. I'm hoping that the 4mm ply on the bottom will still give a bit of flex on the tips and the 7mm will stiffen in up through the middle. Hopefully it won't weigh a ton either. some of my questions are... will it work or just snap in half? is the size too big? Too long? Too wide? is normal woven fibreglass ok? Was thinking 1 layer of 200gm. How should I taper the top layer of ply to the bottom layer so as not to create a stress point? There's a picture below with 2 options of how I was thinking of tapering the ends of the top layer. Which would be better? obviously there is going to be fins and straps on there somewhere too.
  5. I think we need one of these for the next overnight camping trip to sandy point
  6. Following on from one of my previous threads on Buggies with Skiis, here are the links to the FoilMaker software to design your own twin skin foil kites or pick from tried and tested designs. Once the shape is dailled in it then gives you the option to print the flat pattern to paper ready to cut out and manufacture the kite. FoilMaker: Source: http://www.bicycle.eclipse.co.uk/fm/download.htm, Full installer: http://www.bicycle.eclipse.co.uk/fm/setup.exe Manual: http://www.bicycle.eclipse.co.uk/fm/manual.zip Samples: http://www.bicycle.eclipse.co.uk/fm/Profiles.zip VMRL viewer: http://www.bicycle.eclipse.co.uk/fm/cortvrml.exe To avoid the MFC71.dll not found error (this happened on my Win2000 system) go to http://www.dll-files.com/ http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?mfc71 Good place to get tried and tested designs (these also come with the software) a must look is: http://wingine.nl/ These guys are full on for buggies and kites. Have hints on the sewing aspects as well. And it's in english as well. The kite I will be making first will be one of the junkies. Here are some of the comments from the wingine site on this kite: "Plans for the Kitejunkie series. The S50 has been a very popular design since its release, being built by foilmakers all over the world, and with glowing reports. Make this foil if you want a cutting edge proven design for buggying." Also a good write up on this junkie kite at: http://kitelife.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=367&st=0 This a 2004 to 2005 write up, used it for snow boarding and could go upwind. First kite made was a 5 meter. Here are some screen shots of the software: If you want to see how the profiles work aerodynamically, try xfoil at: Source: http://raphael.mit.edu/xfoil/ This in turn linked from: http://www.aae.uiuc.edu/m-selig/ads.html For the junkie, using the xfoil software to look at the aerodynamics, if you wish, here is a sample of the pressure distribution. Note the region just under the nose where the pressure is inward, ie the ram effect can work here. Put it too far up and the air gets sucked out (ie vectors pointing inwards). The xfoil software is only two dimensional, that is does not examine span wise effects, but will give you a good idea of what the pressure distribution chord wise is going to look like. Well that's all for tonight. Enjoy,
  7. I spent many hours working through the great kite resources found on the web and decided to build a NPW5 for my first large project. The information available to scratch build this kite is great and I had no trouble sorting out the building process. The NPW5 since it's a single surface kite wth a low number of parts was not so complicated to sew except for the seam construction that took some tests on scrap material to get right. It built up in about four evenings, about 16 hours to complete. The bridal is simple arrangement and worked up with not too much fuss. Use the procedures listed on some of the NPW sites and it comes out good. First flights were troublesome for me as I had the angle of attack all out of wack and it never got off the ground more than 5 feet. It pulled like heck in a 20mph wind and was tough to keep it's shape... So after plenty of adjustment of the main panel center bridal lines I adjusted the angle of attack to perform better but it was still tough to get higher than 20 feet. I began to tune the break lines and let them out, alot... The kite zoomed up to overhead and stalled and collapsed. I think I got it by this time. (7 flights later) I find that this kite works much like many of the last posts in this listing indicate. However, I struggled for quite some time to tame the kite and stop it from folding up, flying backwards, not climbing, spinning, and get control of... I have scared myself twice as the gusts came up beyond 25mph and found that it was pulling me so that I lost foot traction and was getting close to trees at the end of the field... Make sure that you fly this kite 4 line as it can pull you more than you may be prepared for and you need a way to get it on the ground. It's been a real challenge to learn with but after fighting with it I can probably work any other kite available. It's turns fast but goes slow, pulls hard and is plenty surprising when it collapses and changes shape... It's a fine first kite for the first time scratch builder if one takes a little care and attention. It will help you build up all your skills for the first season in building and flying big traction kites. I recomend it for a beginner project and suggest you make it four line or it will pull you to where you really don't want to go on the first day you dare to take it out in moderate to strong winds... Lot's of workout and lot's of laughs... Spent $130.00 and my time to build... Go for it... By : Bruce Feaver
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