This is a reinforcing brace for the GWS Slow Stick wing to replace the provided brace made of aluminum. The provided dihedral brace is weak, and looses it's strength, fatiguing and becoming useless after any force is applied to it in flight. This may happen after a while of regular flying, or multiple loops, strong pullouts from a dive, or any other such aggressive flying. If you have any upgraded motor, or the stock motor on more than 7 cells, then your provided dihedral braces will ware out soon. When this happens, the brace becomes completely useless, and the wing becomes very weak. The next time you pull up violently, the wing panels will bend upward, and if the enough stress is pulled onto the wings, they will bend upward violently enough so that the tips nearly touch above the fuselage, and the wing will snap at the center. This is called folding.

     To prevent this from happening, there are a few modifications you could do to strengthen the wing. And this is the most important one. Most people use Brass to replace their dihedral braces, but mostly, I use Stainless Steel, which has twice the strength of brass, and nearly 4 times that of aluminum, but since the stainless material costs me more, I sell these out of brass as well. Also, my braces have thicker walls, and the angle is actually a radius. When GWS bends their aluminum tubes at the factory, they bend in an angle, but I bend the degrees over a radius. This keeps the tubing from "creasing" at the bend, and rather spreads out the weak spot over a larger area, thus increasing the strength again.

      So you're asking, Why am I making these for you? This is because I realize many of you out there might not want to go through the trouble of making a set for yourself. Not everybody out there is willing to make one, and everybody has their excuse, be it that they don't have the time, the tools, the resources, don't want to buy what they don't need a lot of in bulk, etc. And when you put all these reasons together, I thought that there would be a lot of people out there with at least one of these reasons. And so I began bending these braces for myself and friends. That's how I got started.

      But all things come with a price. As much as I love to help out fellow flyers, and especially with a beginner plane, I still cannot make these for free. To cover my time and costs, I ask a small fee of $10 for a set of Stainless Steel Wing Braces. Shipping is on me if you live in the US, but please add $1 to cover shipping elsewhere. However, an extra dollar donation is really appreciated to help cover the shipping and PayPal transaction fees. I accept PayPal, money orders, personal checks, and cash (ship at your own risk however). I prefer PayPal but it is entirely up to you.
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-Michael Berger. Please contact me for any questions or comments at penguin53@yahoo.com. You can also meet me on the ezone, where my username is aeropenguin.