{"id":313,"date":"2022-02-03T08:23:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T08:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/?p=313"},"modified":"2022-02-03T08:23:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T08:23:28","slug":"mk-2-rotor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Mk 2 rotor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Prop_MK2a-1024x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Prop_MK2a-1024x184.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Prop_MK2a-300x54.jpg 300w, https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Prop_MK2a-768x138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Prop_MK2a-1536x276.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Prop_MK2a-2048x369.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A revised lift-rotor is being made. The original test rotor works well, but was difficult to make. The Mk 2  is intended to be more suitable for production, but is functionally the same.<br><br>A new hub body was 3-d printed, and is also intended to be suitable for injection moulding.<br>But I do not know any supplier who can print suitable plastic to 0.05 mm repeatable accuracy. Any suggestions? So re-finishing of bearing seats has been necessary.<br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jtc-machining.com\/\">JTC Model Technologies<\/a> have supplied excellent\u00a0 prototype aluminium components and steel broaching tools for the new rotor. Their parts fit beautifully,\u00a0 they are very helpful, and Alice has first-rate command of technical English. So it doesn&#8217;t matter that I have zero command of Chinese!<br><br>Earlier, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jtc-machining.com\/\">JTC Model Technologies<\/a> also machined wing mounts from blocks of ABS. Although there was some post-machining distortion, these proved to be an excellent way to quickly<a href=\"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/?page_id=87\" title=\"Wing Test Rig\"> mount the wings<\/a> for testing. Strong enough to hold 20 kg\u00a0 of lift plus road shocks and wind-gusts!<br>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A revised lift-rotor is being made. The original test rotor works well, but was difficult to make. The Mk 2 is intended to be more suitable for production, but is functionally the same. A new hub body was 3-d printed, and is also intended to be suitable for injection moulding.But I do not know any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agileaircraft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}