Using the milling maching, I carved out a working fixture from delrin that bolts to the indexing table and accepts the kart hubs and allows them to be held for machining.
In 2009 we set out to conclusively answer the following question... Can a vehicle be built which can go directly downwind, faster than the wind (DDWFTTW), powered only by the wind, steady state? On 3 July 2010 we established a world record by going directly downwind at 2.8 times the true wind speed with the Blackbird. Now we have begun to modify the Blackbird with the intention of going directly UP-wind faster than the wind - steady state.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Please hold me
As we're using kart axles to spin all our bits, we have quite a number of kart hubs that we need to modify to fit our various components. We're fitting bicycle disk brakes rather than kart brakes (too heavy), three freewheel ratchets (one per wheel and one for prop) and of course our actual drive components (sprockets, spools, etc. depending on the phase of the project.
Using the milling maching, I carved out a working fixture from delrin that bolts to the indexing table and accepts the kart hubs and allows them to be held for machining.

Using the milling maching, I carved out a working fixture from delrin that bolts to the indexing table and accepts the kart hubs and allows them to be held for machining.