{"id":21,"date":"2012-11-17T21:41:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T21:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21"},"modified":"2015-02-21T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T13:49:08","slug":"the-duct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"The duct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/f02513a975283106235a70a7be186457.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/f02513a975283106235a70a7be186457-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"VLUU L200  \/ Samsung L200\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/f02513a975283106235a70a7be186457-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/f02513a975283106235a70a7be186457.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The duct is 1M in diameter, quite large for an F3 but I figured it would be about right for this craft. The duct was made by my old friend Dan\u00a0 who was doing it as a plug for a duct he was building and it was no longer required.<\/p>\n<p>I collected it on a filthy night, strapped to the roof of the car as you can see. You can make out the Kevlar containment area that should hold everything together if a blade lets go and tries to leave through the side.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a flat &#8220;plate&#8221; running all round the duct. This is to help to keep it circular, particularly where the blades run. It&#8217;s quite hard to stop a duct from flexing and as long as the part with the blades in stays circular, the rest can move around a little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The duct is 1M in diameter, quite large for an F3 but I figured it would be about right for this craft. The duct was made by my old friend Dan\u00a0 who was doing it as a plug for a duct he was building and it was no longer required. I collected it on a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=21\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The duct<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c82-random-orbit-3"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"andy","author_link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}