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DIY Wheel Pants
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Sunday, 19 April 2009 14:36
DIY Wheel Pants

Don't go naked with depron plane. Get yourself a wheel pants and start kicking those dirt out.

Building an airplane out from depron is fun. There's a time when building it come to an extend where you want to see your depron plane looks cool and beautiful. This is where the idea to have the wheel pants come in. It add that extra looks and feel of an actual airplane.

ADB2 has posted a nice and prcatical way in creating your own DIY Wheel Pants out from depron sheets sandwish together.

How do you make wheelpants from 3mm and 6mm Depron scraps? I was asking myself this question this morning and just sat down to draw the basic wheelpants shape on a sheet of paper.

These are for the Owl-RT 3D lightweight model which I describe in another thread. You start with the wheel itself, of course, but as I am a newbie I just drew freehand a basic wheelpant shape, from memory.

First try was waaaay too big, so second try I took a real wheel and drew around it. This gave me the basic shape which I cutout and laid on Depron scraps to cut the various layers. I am using 5 layers arranged 3-6-3-6-3mm Depron. That gives me 15mm internal space which is fine for the wheel I am using (12mm wide). The 5 layers are glued together using polyurethane glue (Gorilla Glue equivalent). I then shaped the wheelpant roughly using a cutter. Still needs sanding and painting, but looks OK to me!

Certainly gives the Owl-RT a more aerodynamic look.

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Basic shape on right.
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5 layers 3-6-3-6-3mm Depron.
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Enough space for the wheel.
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That's the second wheelpant just glued.
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Glued and roughly shaped with a cutter.
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Final result should look like this, only smoother!
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Test fit. Not sanded or painted yet, and it will fit the wheel better when finished. But it looks OK already! :)
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Sanded.
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Another test fit.
Original post can be read here.
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