Saturday, April 20, 2024

Homebuilt Helo #42


After a good deal of heart-searching and visits to my priest and psychoanalyst I have decided to mount the cantilevers around the sides of our airframe, so that the whole design effectively features snap-on modules.

To do so I've mounted conduit-clips where the rivets penetrate the tube-connectors and the frame is thickest. If you don't think this meets aerospace standards, trying getting these off with bare hands: it features in Britain's Strongest Man as I write.

The clips fit 22mm electrical conduit and we'll be mounting 20mm alloy tubing, simply because it's all we have left in terms of the leftovers of which our proof of concept is being constructed.

As you will see though, much in life is fudge-able besides your CV.