Square or circular joiners
I don't see a difference except that round rods are probably
easier to find.
Carbon or steel
Carbon is lighter and more expensive
Steel bends before it breaks (I think this is safer)
Carbon just breaks
floating or fixed rods
a fixed rod ties the wings to the fuselage through the joiner
rod. This stresses the joiner rod even further becauset it has to
carry te weight of the fuselage as well as the load imposed by the in
flight load.
A floating rod has two other pins that connect the fuselage to
the wing that will carry the weight of the fuselage thus allowing the
joiner rod to only have the inflight loads to worry about.
I fix my rods into the fuse.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "E Wikran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was using the wrong words in my earlier post so most of you people
out
> there has misunderstood my questions. I should have used the term
wing
> joiner or wing rod (corrected below). The question regarding the
retaining
> system wasn't the issue, but any advice on this is also welcome
since I have
> to start thinking of it soon.
>
>
>
> Erik
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "ewikran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:25 AM
> > Subject: [RCSE] Wing to fuselage connection.
> >
> > I am working on a 1/3.5 scale DG600 and need some advise on wing
joiners
> and
> > connection to the fuselage.
> >
> > I am having trouble deciding on the wing joiner. Should I choose a
> circular or
> > rectangular joiner? And what materials is best suitable, steel or
carbon
> (as
> > the
> > F3x type planes use).
> > Anyone have any pros - cons they would like to share?
> >
> > I have also the option of making the wing joiner floating trough
the fuse
> or
> > to make it firm into a tube trough the fuse. I am most familiar
with the
> firm
> > connection from the F3x planes, but I know many scale ships use
the
> floating
> > joiner, and also many full-scale planes. What are the pros and
cons?
> >
> > I hope that a discussion on this topic can help me decide upon the
> > arrangement so I can go on building.
> >
> > -----
> > Regards
> > Erik Wikran
> > Tromso, Norway
> > -------------------
>
>
>
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