Tailbeacon on a Waiex

[Bryan Cotton]

Rev 2 of the mount:

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Rev 2 may not be totally accurate. But next I glued it on with 5 minute epoxy. Once it seemed strong enough I did a trial fit.

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I cut the heads off some long #8 screws and sharpened them. Then I screwed them in, with some WD40 on the threads. Put a piece of heat shrink tubing over it and then glassed over with 4 or 5 layers of thin glass. Before I put resin to it, I cut up to the edge of the mount around the perimiter of the part so the cloth would lay flat around the corner.

[Bryan Cotton]

Ready for paint - finally.

Before paint I weighed it, + 0.06 lbs so far.

[Bryan Cotton]

Here is my wiring scheme:

I need to touch up the paint. Good enough for now.

Powered up, configured, and registered:

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Awesome! Weather is spectacular, let's go try it out!



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