Quote from: Rheged on March 27, 2025, 09:39:09 AM

Quote from: zenrat on March 27, 2025, 03:49:41 AMNew tip nozzles.  Quieter due to Laminar Boundary Layer Turbulent Interference Sound Compression Shearing Division. 

Well done!  Obviously you have "advanced technobabble"  as one of your languages.

You could write the script for Star Trek!

Quote from: Rheged on March 27, 2025, 09:39:09 AM

Quote from: zenrat on March 27, 2025, 03:49:41 AMNew tip nozzles.  Quieter due to Laminar Boundary Layer Turbulent Interference Sound Compression Shearing Division. 

Well done!  Obviously you have "advanced technobabble"  as one of your languages.

But it'd be easier if Fred could figure out a way to turn BS into an appropriate acronym

Quote from: scooter on March 27, 2025, 09:53:35 AMBut it'd be easier if Fred could figure out a way to turn BS into an appropriate acronym

Yeah, 'LBLTISCSD' doesn't really trip off the tongue too well.........................

I was trying to read it, and then realized it wasn't a word... ya got me, Fred. 

Not BS - more like 'McGuffin' or 'Hand-Wavium'...

Quote from: scooter on March 27, 2025, 09:53:35 AM

Quote from: Rheged on March 27, 2025, 09:39:09 AM

Quote from: zenrat on March 27, 2025, 03:49:41 AMNew tip nozzles.  Quieter due to Laminar Boundary Layer Turbulent Interference Sound Compression Shearing Division. 

Well done!  Obviously you have "advanced technobabble"  as one of your languages.

But it'd be easier if Fred could figure out a way to turn BS into an appropriate acronym

I'm working on it.  An earlier version was ALANs.
I think i've got it licked.  Compression Layer Inter-Turbulant Shearing...

Oh, I can hear the Book being slammed open from here!    

Quote from: Old Wombat on March 28, 2025, 04:36:50 AMOh, I can hear the Book being slammed open from here!    

     I'm working on the basis that it could be taken as a medical term. I've certainly heard it used as such as well as a vulgarity 

Those however who suggested he seek a "more appropriate acronyn" 

I attacked the resin 1/48 tail rotor parts today.  Cutting them up and combining them with the styrene Airfix parts and some scratch.
I've reinforced with wire where possible but its not going to be a very robust construction.

Quote from: zenrat on March 30, 2025, 02:51:25 AM...............but its not going to be a very robust construction.

Rotor hubs in styrene never are, almost all model helicopter rotors are fragile, but there's not a lot we can do about it, and keep them 'scale'.

Yeah, but this hub is now resin and thus even more fragile.

That's why the wire in handy. I used wire reinforcements on my Rotocrane for exactly that reason as its rotor blades were almost twice as long as the originals, and wider too. 

Examination today showed the 5 minute epoxy I used yesterday to glue the resin hub part to a styrene shaft hasn't completely set yet.
I am hopeful time will cure all (sic).  It did allow me to correct a slight misalignment.
The rotors now have resin end fittings superglued to them with jumbo paperclip wire reinforcement.  These hub has D shaped male parts which fit into similarly shaped sockets on the rotors.  These are the joints I am worried about.  The D shape prevented me from extending the reinforcing wire through into the hub as I would have been trying to drill down on the flat part of the male D and it would not have stayed aligned.
Given the areas and tolerances involved I think liquid superglue might be the go.