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Wind Turbine Blade Kit UG 42285 V0116
Creating Chipboard Blades
1. Cut out the blade design you plan to use from the blade design sample sheet.
2. Trace the blade design onto a chipboard sheet and cut out the blade with scissors (Figures 5 and 6).
Repeat this five more times.
Note:
More than one blade can be created per sheet.
3. Measure an inch on three dowel rods. Each blade needs at least one inch of a dowel rod exposed so the
dowel rod can fit into the hub on the Wind Turbine Experimenter’s Kit.
4. Put a line of glue into the middle of a chipboard blade and glue the rod to it (Figure 7). Repeat two more
times.
5. Tape a chipboard blade without a dowel rod to one with a dowel rod so that the dowel rod is in the
middle. Tape the edges so there are no gaps (Figure 8). Repeat two more times.
Figure 5
Figure 7
Figure 6
Figure 8
