{"id":1751,"date":"2003-08-27T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2003-08-27T20:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/08\/27\/burning-through-props-quickly-jaybyrds-cant-fly\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T12:39:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T20:39:39","slug":"burning-through-props-quickly-jaybyrds-cant-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/27\/burning-through-props-quickly-jaybyrds-cant-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning through props quickly, Jaybyrds can&#8217;t fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been burning up a lot of props. The black plastic press-on  spinner has gone loose a couple times. Each time, I have to get out a new  Gunther prop-spinner combination. I think what&#8217;s happening is that my home-made  EPP motor mount and motor strap are trapping extra heat in the motor. This heat  goes down the axel and melts the spinner. I think this is the case because I  noticed a couple spinners where the black plastic looked like it has been  deformed by heat. To fix the problem, I&#8217;m changing how the strapping sits on the  motor to increase airflow a bit and following a recommendation by Kenvil Hobbies  and using clear silicon sealant to glue the spinner on. I also scraped up the  axel with tin snips to improve it&#8217;s bite and adhesion. The silicon takes 24  hours to dry so I&#8217;m sitting here twiddling my thumbs while it dries. Maybe I&#8217;ll  also scrape out some ridges on the motor mount so more air gets to it.<\/p>\n<h3>Jaybyrds can&#8217;t fly<\/h3>\n<p>I took the plane down to my cousin Jason&#8217;s house and we flew a little on  Tuesday. Before the spinner (held in place with CA) melted off, I let him try  the controls. Ha. Jaybyrds are a flightless species! But that&#8217;s ok, we had fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been burning up a lot of props. The black plastic press-on spinner has gone loose a couple times. Each time, I have to get out a new Gunther prop-spinner combination. I think what&#8217;s happening is that my home-made EPP motor mount and motor strap are trapping extra heat in the motor. This heat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}