Racer frame emphasising durability and low cost

[late trout]

First - yes I made a forum post when this should be in #1020410292070531093 . Fight me.

So I've got a few bits and bobs and I want to look at putting together a racer that is for really "sending it" on practice days. My design goals are:

• Low cost - cheap arms, that sort of thing
• Durability - not going to end my session after some bad impacts

I am not aiming for performance with this at all. I'll be using Eco II motors, a cheap 35A stack I have, and analogue.

I'm looking for any suggestions on cheap and durable frames for racing and also any building techniques for keeping them durable. Thanks!

[thorn quiver]

Are you familiar with the OpenRacer frames? https://hypernovafpv.com/products/openracer-frame

[late trout]

yeah nice that is an idea, seems really cheap, but no stockists in the UK

I swear cncmadness just go out of their way to hide which country they are in

their phone number even looks like a UK mobile

so that is interesting but I would have to have some cut

[thorn quiver]

Yea i guess so, not sure how cheap you can get it made if you order it cut?

[late trout]

if I am going to do that I thought I might as well just use my current frame design but increase the arms to 5mm and fatten them up a bit

[late trout]

I can get it at an OK price, comparable with retail, but I need to order like 10 replacement arms

[thorn quiver]

maybe get some of the other club members in on it?

[late trout]

we actually already have a club frame

it doesn't have quite the same design goals, and I was looking for mass-market kinds of pricing

e.g. I can get tbs source two arms for £2.45 each which is about half the cost of the smaller run frames https://www.hobbyrc.co.uk/tbs-source-two-5-spare-arms

the source two is one of my frontrunners but idk how durable it is

[thorn quiver]

that is cheap yeah, it needs to be a lot less durable to end up costing you more money lol