Corrections:


In the February issue of the
Ampeer I mentioned Steve's article on making spinners.  Unfortunately I gave the wrong source!  Here's Steve's correction:
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Thanks Ken, glad to help other people with their projects.   And of course, it is good to support EFI (especially now that it is monthly!).  However, the article wasn't sent to EFI - it  appeared in EF-UK (the newsletter of British Electric Flight Association).
Steve Kerry - Yorkshire, UK
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motors is the ease with which you can bend the shaft on landing. I know I'm not the only one who has traced several wobbly propellers back to a slightly bent motor shaft. There are two ways around this: shaft savers and spinners. Shaft savers are great, I have a number of them and they work fine. But they don't look too good on a scale model.
A close fitting spinner is the other option. If you install a spinner so that it almost touches the nose of your model, you will eliminate 99% of bent motor shafts. Great! Unfortunately, the mass-produced plastic spinners available in most shops leave something to be desired. They are not wonderfully balanced, the quality is highly variable and the choice of shape very small. They also tend to distort at high speed, creating a lot of vibration.
So, sooner or later, the modeler with a taste for small scale aircraft will need to make his own spinners. Now before you run away in horror, I'm not talking about casting your own spinners in GRP or vacuforming anything. These spinners are made from good old balsa wood. My objective was to find a simple, cheap way for anyone to make their own spinner without recourse to expensive or

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If the correction above looks familiar, it should.  I ran it last month!  It seems that I had Steve's article all the time!  Here it is:

From the Pages of:
Electric Flight UK
edited by: Gordon Tarling
87 Cowley Mill Road, Uxbridge,
Middx UB8 2QD
gtarling@ndirect.co.uk

SCALE SPINNERS FOR SPEED 400
Some ideas by Steve Kerry

One of the biggest problems with Speed 400