Hammer

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Mark - you can't keep all the gliders forever - give'em to the chaps

Picked mine up off the BoyBarnes this evening. Tis a damn fine kit for the money! The wings are very nicely finished, and seem to be surprisingly strong. I gave them the old "bend them over my belly" test, and I can confirm they are stiffer than a Filip400/600, about the same as my old Graphite 2e wings, but not as stiff as my Viking mouldy. That said, it is probably cheapest of the lot, so I have no complaints!

the fuselage is nicely moulded, and just needs a touch with some sandpaper to flatten the moulding seams back a touch. It has a fair bit of carbon down its tail too, so should survive some landing abuse nicely!

Now I need to get the thing built.

Oh, and Rob, I'll check the graphics fit this evening, and give you a shout about some sticker sheets if you are still interested?

Andy

Thanks for the feedback Andy - I'm very happy to hear you like it so far
Yes please let me know about the stickers .

Nothing to exiting to report at the moment, just gluing the wing joiner in

So this is the bit where you decide to build a one piece wing then?

nope still 2 piece just careful use of the glue

M

Wing prep nearly done, took along time waiting for glue to dry, and doing bits in betwen GP Quali and football.

This feels like building and I hate it even though its going well. Hardwood blocks mounted in the wings, wing joins done and now the capping ribs are glued on. So near as damm it done.





Thats it until next week as I'm off to Barkston Heath early doors tomorrow as for some reason I'm competing in the first UK Classic Pattern event at the festival of flight.

M

Here s a few pictures of my build - I'm just 1 step behind Mark



I have also wood blocks glued in - will post picture tomorrow
So far so good - minimum building skills needed
Looks like the wing joiner bit is the most tricky and needs to be done correctly the first time - cleaning the channel from epoxy will be right pain in the back side

Nice one Robert, I will be back on with mine this week for a weekend maiden hopefully.

M

little update
Not much more done, but I have the wood blocks in place and the plywood strips glued over - so now waiting for servos - should be with me on Monday - then covering with white Oracover

Beloved part of the build started - covering...
Rudder will be done today - wings are waiting for some room, and some ideas - the gap in the ailerons/flaps is really tiny - may have to sand it a bit



Got to say - Oracover is easy to remove all the wrinkles - if they ever start producing anti wrinkles cream for woman's - they will make a fortune

And last picture for a few days - tails is covered

Nice one Rob,

I found the hinge gaps very close so have took the sander to them to make the job easier, should get mine covered or sprayed this week hopefully.

M

Progress has been slow on my Hammer due to "real" life getting in the way but Ive managed to get a couple of coats of varnish on the wings so there now ready for spraying.

Shame to cover up the wood really as they have come up really well. I used Ronseal Diamond Hard Clear Gloss Varnish dead easy to use and gave it a light sand in betwen coats.

Pic tonight if I get chance

Already decided that next one will be just Varnished, I'm useless with Iron and wife do not want to help
Show us the pics mate !

Small progress - wings are covered



Now is time to drill some holes in the fuss ...
Also - got hs82mg on the table - but got also few corona wing servos DS-239mg - which should I use ?
Or which one should I stay away from ?

Hi-Tec.

Or which one should I stay away from ?
Gorse bushes!

All servos are in - Hitec is the servo of choice - most vote for this one - and hitec will be to thick to fit into my next project

servos in the fuselage


temporary fitted servo covers - blenderm tape holds them down - but the edges got dust already and looks not very nice :/


Old saying is - he didn't have problems so started FA horns...
Instead of just drilling holes thro the wobbly parts to mount the horns - I went for the Blejzyk way - 2 small holes - foam removed around the place where the horns go - filled with epoxy and everybody's happy... ailerons and flaps will be nicely flat on the upside - without any plastic cups to hold the horn in place.
It looks nice - but ... next time I just drill the holes thro.... or get a syringe before I start ...
picture to follow soon.

I'm veeeery pleased with the model, CG as per manual, no ballast (video shows Neals Hammer with 700gr of lead) - the weight makes difference if you are after some speed - if you want just sail from left to right then no ballast is needed.
I have coupled the ailerons with flaps (flaps moves aprox half what ailerons) and it rolls fast enough.
Defo needs all the rest of mixing and playing with differential - but I failed with programming my radio in time so it was all "hand mixing" - that means C.... mixing - Neals felt like on rails - my was all over the place.
Crow needs a lot of movement -but we had a lot of laugh when Neal was landing with crow and just about 2 m above the ground he got some thermal and model just went up few meters - so avoid landing with crow where the thermal is LOL
I had 2 quite rough landings - first I went about 20cm nose into the ground ..... 1 bolt snapped
then I had a half circler (?) - left wing cough the ground and it went nose in again - another bolt snapped
no more damage - hey - lets try that with a mouldy

Here is Sunday flying with Neal S - location Horcum

Ok guys - get yours done - already booking day off to meet you at the Great Orme

To be fair it looks awesome in that vid,

BB - note to self get the damm thing finished

BB - note from RB get the damn thing finished after the 55cc model.

I found complete set up for my radio for f3f model
http://www.rc-soar.com/multiplex/4000/model_setups/vf3fsnap.pdf
If you know anybody who has to much time and will do it for a reasonable amount of beer - let me know - I'm up for it

And here is finally the video of me flying the Hammer.
Nothing special, but you can see what difference makes 700g to the same model.
and the flying skills

Some more spamming from me but as I know you were thinking of E version this might be handy .
Another Hammer - E version


Few more pictures and bigger size can be found here >> E-Hammer pictures