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Permalink Reply by arashi on December 21, 2010 at 11:45am

I was thinking about just using the sheets of styrene foam insulation. Just laminate two 1" sheets and cut the shape out.

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Permalink Reply by Sanbernar on December 21, 2010 at 1:45pm

after last crash I found that foam will be too weak.

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Permalink Reply by Christopher Cooper on January 25, 2011 at 3:19am

I'm still a noob pilot so I've broken quite a few props. To protect my props I've bolted on aluminium extensions to each arm that are slightly longer than the radius of the prop (see my attached pic). They're not as light as foam but they've saved the props on several occasions. My plan was to eventually attach a guard ring to these arms (either one per prop, or a large one around the whole quad) but this setup seems to be working fine.

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Permalink Reply by Olivier Binette on February 4, 2011 at 3:23pm

Hi, 

 

I you have a quadcopter, you could make something like this: http://solsie.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/image8.png

You can probably make this by yourself by sculpting different materials like styrofoam. If you want something stronger, I would go with styrofoam covered by paper (or any other light fiber material) and resin.

 

I wish this helps you a bit!

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Permalink Reply by kuxz on July 14, 2011 at 7:58pm

http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/14/11/18/34/connec10.jpg
Will this protection of using the carbon rod of covering around the frame works?

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Permalink Reply by Sanbernar on July 15, 2011 at 12:17am

Hi, I think that this stuff will work only at elevation of less then 1 meter.
At higher elevations even the aluminum supports will be broken.
Vic

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