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A built Vario MD 900 kit (by Vario)
The real thing in UK Air Support Colours
October
30, 2009
Well, still do
not have the Vario parts, so am pretty well stuck right now.
Therefore I decided to give my trusty old soldering iron some work
to do, and started to try to make up some windshield wipers for the
MD900. These are quite hefty, and as you can see, have a
secondary control arm that goes from the main pivot up to the blade
itself.
I found some
old Piano wire used for shaft drives for the tail rotors many years
ago, and went to work.
The first
thing was to make the main arm, which you may just be able to see is
actually two pieces of wire soldered together along the full
length. These will of course be filled to appear to be a slid
piece of metal when finished.
Next came the
wiper arm supports, which are made from some thinner piano wire, and
soldered to the top of the main arm. The final trick for the arms
themselves was to make up and fix the secondary arms, made from the
original diameter wire, and solder them in place.
Yet to work
out is how to make up the rubber blades themselves, so I really need
to dig through my odds and sods boxes to come up with something
suitable for this task.
The final
trick will be to gently bend the arms and blades so that they fit
the curve of the windshield.
As you can see
from the steel rule in the first picture, these are about 8 inches
in overall length...
Here they are
after bending to fit the screen more accurately and being painting,
and fitted temporarily to the windshield... There is also the
newly elongated camera pod, as the owner decided he wanted it to be
longer than it was originally, to more closely match the prototype
camera pods.
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