Clemco said...

This is the Class5 I am presently sailing. I am happy for anyone to copy.

Hello Clemco,

do you have more detailed plans for this landsailer? your help will be highly appreciated

best regards


juan enrique

jeqs said...

Clemco said...

This is the Class5 I am presently sailing. I am happy for anyone to copy.

Hello Clemco,

do you have more detailed plans for this landsailer? your help will be highly appreciated

best regards


juan enrique

Gday Jeqs, good to see you back, how about an update on landsailing in Chile for all the newcomers, there are heaps of them
cheers Paul

Hello,

I have been following the forum, quietly, from far!!!

We have been focused on promoting landsailing to younger pilots!
From march until a couple of weeks ago, I took groups of college people to introduce them into this sport, now the seeds are in its place, now I hope to have a good harvest of new pilots!!

With a friend we try to make a class 5 with the plans the french people gave us.
as we do not have aluminum available, we made a chassis of steel pipes, but it is not finished, yet.

I hope to be able to make more people interested.

now, with winter coming, colder days, almost no wind, I guess we will wait until september to reassume landsailing.

Until last year it was easier to get people together to go to "the pampa del leoncito" in argentina, 350 km from my home in santiago. I guess it is because of the economic crisis, the swine flu or who knows.

Anyway, as soon as I can get someone to go along, I will go landsaling.

Our objectives now is to build a team to go to the world championship next year in Belgium. I hope we can make it again.


muchos saludos

juan enrique
juan enrique

Clemco... nice looking construct you have there

Where would one generally find nice looking wheels of the sort used on your 5?

Yesterday my Dad did some work at a property with racing horses and spied some 5 spoke buggy (sulkie??) wheels, have these been used or appropriate? I guess many are homebuilt (like AUS230's)?

I'll get back to work now (telling myself helps.....sometimes )

the 5 spokers are made by Starfire wheels,and sadly they have a tendency to shatter.they are not really stable enough for a Cl 5. last price I got was $650 per set. Then you need to make plates for the bearings. the yanks use them and bolt 2 discs of ally plate either side to stiffen them.
realistically the best bet for wheels in Australia would be to have a go at following Vics wheel building exercise. Vic tells me hes going to fit an alloy rim into the building of the wheel in his next version
Hope I havent let any cats out of bags there VIc

Finished the first wheel (protype2) today. all up weight with tyre and heavy duty tube is 4.5kg 3/4kg lighter that last years wheel and I think it will be a lot stronger.
Process
1. Lay up discs 5 layers of 8oz woven fibreglass. (epoxy resin used for all parts)
2. Glue 26" mountain bike rim with one side cut of to disc (pic1 and 2)
3.Make up joining strip and 4 spokes from 4 layers of 8oz woven (pic 3)
4. Fit spokes and joining strip to one side of disc. (pic4)Spoke holes work as key in
5. Trim joining strip and spokes and join both halves. Check that everything is square before epoxy sets ((pic5)
6. epoxy 1 layer of 2" fibreglass tape to tube well. (pic 6)
7. finished wheel.

Awesome job! I have no doubt that you make it look 1000000x easier than it actually is. I hope they perform every bit as well as they look