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Lovely session last night. Such a shame that there was no Fury Maiden but it was the right decision. Here's a few seconds of video, turn up your sound. VID_20210423_185925.mp4

not had so much time of late but kyosho Spit still ongoing, wings now sanded filler added and glass cloth finish started Still lots to do but progress being made if slowly. Linds

So, the Dummy Radial went together ok, mucho patienco required. D.D. 9 of these little cylinders Number 9. The finished item.

If you get a text from phone number +447423596933 advising you that you have set up a new payee on your bank account and further advising you to click on a link to cancel the payee (in my case it purported to be from Santander) you would be wise not to click the link. If you are concerned go into to your bank account as you normally do and check to see if you have set up a new payee. Just saying.

Scam callers spoof a different number each call they make so it's very unlikely they will use this number again. This trick renders websites like whocallsme.com useless for tracking these scammers.

Hi all, Well yesterday, I had my first jab without probs, except a bit of a battle with the P-Card machine at the exit of the parking... Following Dwain's remark, I was expecting a nice sticker showing something like "Congrats, you have been vaccinated now". So when I asked for it, the doc simply answered that I already had a small sticker covering the needle puncture on my upper-arm... ? My next question, about getting a lollipop 'like in the old days', just made them all chuckle for a while though... ? Cheers Chris

The burbling idle is very evocative.

It’s not the age, if sealed from new, it’s the castor oil, disgusting stuff. 1st WW pilots used to have a ration of whisky, to balance the opening of anal sphincter. Chuck it out, a fair weed killer.

Pretty good match on the paint.

Alive , but working on the kicking -- LOL, I have been at home with Pandemic and all that, suffering from being Immune suppressed. The store has stayed open and never stopped regard Mail Order and Click and Collect in the last lock down and I'm pleased to say re opened on 12th April. Monday to callers. Its going well, we've had a slight refit improving the down stairs store to allow customers around it this time. The first lock down was severe with the counter across the front , but I think such measures proved correct when the 2nd wave hit. Now there's still perspex on the counter but at least the shop is open. Our upstairs showroom is closed. Most people understand ( not all do) that it has to be that way. Because of social distancing the upstairs can't be used. The mail order office is small and works fine, unless all the staff a need to be 2mtrs apart like now and so upstairs has been taken into office / mail order temporary until the all clear gets rid of social distancing. These measures are not optional and anyway people expect SWM to do the right thing and we do as far as I know. Its all about keeping staff and customers safe, while trying to stay open. One reason I came to post this is I heard from Paul Marsh via my personal face book pages ( Facebook at SWM is taken care off. Its not my realm) . Earlier this thread Paul mentioned he got a Force Engine from China , it was cheaper than the UK and apparently no UK stores had them at the time. BUT Paul said that his was a different colour to the ones we advertised. His was Black / Purple and ours had a silver head. At least you would think it had as our website had a pic of it with a silver head. This prompted me to say to Paul that sometimes there are European/ USA versions and there's Home Market for China. Its easy to understand this happens because when this is done in China we see it as copies the Chinese Government see as capitalism. A company like Tower Pro makes 9g servos. Everyone knows the ones and yet I would gamble that many 9g servos that at Tower Pro are not made by Tower Pro at all, but by many different factories. It can be like that with any product. Often the home market can sell things the European market cant . Like decent solder. LOL Hence when Paul said his was different that ours I presumed it must be that. Turns out our website had the wrong picture. So we could not fulfill Paul's dream of a Silver Headed one as they don't seem to be available. That's not to say that Chinese market version might be different than the UK market version. I don't know. I only found out about the website error and like Paul I believed we had silver headed ones as servoshop had that one in the main pic. How could his happen!! Heads will roll... seriously we had got the picture from the J Perkins website the UK distributor and so there was no reason to think it was wrong. The staff at SWM have been happily selling Force not realizing the ones we had were different than the picture. I should assure Paul the Anodizing wont effect he performance. I think he wanted the silver version as well. That might not exist it would seem. Its possible the engine JP photographed was a sample? Its possible its a later model? I dont know , the store will call JP on Monday and try and find out. Strangely most other UK stores have the silver pic. I guess they all used the distributors picture like we did. What could go wrong? Well it could be a different colour apparently. I just wanted to clear up one possible why it was different was it could be a different European version and now I'm not sure it is, If I find out I'll post back. Of course I have substance here that removes anodizing. We could always make one silver... LOL. Keeping on track with the subject of the thread. I have acquired and Super Tigre 2000 glow. Its such shame the low prices these go for on eBay. I picked up a hardly used version for £61. I had forgot what a huge lump of metal they were. I was after a 2500 , but the 2000 will do. I posted some of the Diesel Conversions Peter Tarn has done. I have quite a few 40 FP and I have Fox 60 Dieselized. That's my largest. I said to Peter ' could you dieselize and Super Tigre 2000. The answer was yes but it might not work and so we are going to try and see. If this works I want a Super Tiger 3000 next... LOL.. Why dieselize one? To see if it can be done I guess. I think what might let us known is it has a ring and ring engines dont convert as well to Diesel as ABC or plain Iron Piston/ Liners do. The SS 25,30 and 40 all Dieselize great because they have Iron Pistons/ Liners. I have an SS 40 Diesel and SS 25 Diesel. My Latest engines going into the collection are some I had for a while but they've been refurbished my a pal. A ED 2cc - not a Comp Special. The way to tell is the Comp Special has cut outs on the lugs. The 2cc doesnt it has straight Lugs. There's always Comp Specials for sale with Broken Lugs. I do wonder what a scallop out of the lugs did for performance? It seemed to make lug breaking easier. An Alag X5 - 2.5cc (15 cu in) and a Jenna 1cc (060 cu inch). Hopefully you will see the pics. I finally got a Saxby Nipper 030 also! Hopefully you can see the pics. Steve

Sorry I missed this. So funny. The AM - while on lockdown my son was having a go at eBay with much help from Dad. We repaired the lug on the AM10 and it looked in great nick. Now I've had many diesels pass thorough my hands and there's something I got wrong. When we repaired the lug it was perfect but a different colour and so we coated it with the black cylinder paint. Very honestly we ( put it on sale on the family eBay account. Very honestly I wrote up with my son it was a dead engine , an Ex parrot of an engine. It was bidding up and continued to reach £37/ An engine that didnt work, but had a Black Shadow box. I thought £15 anyway. I looked at the photos after the fact and I could see liner in the ports. Yep. I put the liner back wrong. The winner must have noticed. But then so did someone else! Damn. I've done that twice to AM in the last 6 weeks. I know better as well. We dont sell diesels in the SWM store . We had a handful of Red Fins but that was a one off. I would like to see PAW back in the shop but that's another story for another time. I keep meaning to contact Tony. The diesel thing is something of my own hobby. I just love them. I used to have some long chats with the late David Boddington as he was as enthusiastic about diesels as I am, if not more so. I do miss those chats. Some lovely stuff came from them. Such as when he found out my Dad gave away his comp special ( when he went on National Service) and he was after one, but had failed to get one David sent him a ED Comp Special from his own collection. My dad was bowled over. My dad passed away 5 years ago, but on the shelf in his bedroom , two weeks before his passing he asked for the Comp Special to be put on the side so he could see it. More than just an engine to my dad. My dad was in the Glorious Gloster's in Korea. He never ever spoke about what occurred, but they had a rough time of it from what I can figure. My dad always told me he was there slightly later than he was actually there and that my Uncle Sam had it bad, he was there before him. At my dad's Funeral Uncle Sam said your Dad had it bad in Korea. I said he said you did and it fairly obvious he didn't talk about it directly, but I think what he said about Uncle Sam, really was what happened to him. I never knew. It was 1951 - Dad always told me he was there in 1952 and Uncle same was there in 1951 and Uncle Sam said it was the other way about. I think DB knew. National Service comrades , although DB crashed an Vampire and was subject to Court Martial. That's what he always said. Flying low impressing the Camp Commanders daughter he said. I think it could be true.. Lol. So when putting AM's back together. The liner lines up with the 3 pillars, You cant get it wrong , unless your me. LOL Steve

? Danny congrats on the taxi maiden. Looks and sounds fantastic. Love that big prop and the wobble as she taxies along. Must get back on mine.

Piers, as it has a foam wing a new fuz drawing would be easy, but putting it on OZ, not a clue. When I do my own stuff, drawing is usually limited to formers, the rest being drawn on to the wood or foam, then I fly the plan. For now it's back in the mouse larder, the little beasts come from the farmers field ( handy in the lockdown ). Once they bit through a bottle of PVA which ran down into a box of power tools. Roy, the model isn't going anywhere, so unless I bite the bullet and fix it , the offer is still open. If you do build one don't fit a 40, mine flew best on a 19 with no extra nose weight. It needed tail weight with a 40, and was not as nice to fly. Ron

Gents, Many thanks for your thoughts reguarding my Merco Silencer enquiry. After giving it more thought I have decided to replace the engine with a more exhaust friendly one. I do appreciate your time and thoughts and will look into your suggestions. Aiso living very close to the Shuttleworth Collection may be I find a suitable exhaust at one of their model days.

Remember air bleed slow running adjusts the opposite to twin needle carbs, turn in for richer and out for leaner.

Cor sounds like you don, t want to get on the wrong side of him. Is he Fighter Sweep ?

John laser engines....when unlocked down, visit the museum of internal fire, the live engine museum near aberporth in Wales, a really good day out and well worth a visit. The coast road from Aberystwyth down to aberporth is a very scenic run too and great on a bike.

Shame you can’t use the rigging wires as aerials!

Brilliant answer Kim Determination can be expensive Good Luck with it

Update on the damaged flap, The model shop I bought it from decided the best solution was to replace the whole kit as the flap was beyond repair & replacement flap would not match the wing I had due to the print, so they just exchanged the whole kit which arrived today & all looks good ? I have to say that Kings Lynn Model shop were brilliant in terms of Customer Service, hard to find good CS these days so it's good to know there is still some out there who look after their customers still! ? I'm going to start the build over weekend, I also picked up a Boomerang Trainer to learn on, ? next on list is TX which I've decided will be the Futaba 10J, I'm going to give the Boomerang a once over to check/tune engine & setup the servos etc, then next weekend I shall visit my local RC Plane club ?

Flew the Cambrian 109 again today, has to be one of my favourite models bags of performance on just 3s, ok it does have a really hot motor in it, phenomenal climb rate ?

I have been involved in this hobby for over 50 years, from early days with small diesel engined control line models, to the present day with four stroke glow engines. To me there is just something about model engines that I find fascinating. Having said that I do fly a lipo powered electric glider from time to time. I think it can be best summed up when you you see the enthusiasm generated by steam railway enthusiasts as opposed to electric railway engines. There is just something about a steam engine at full chat that cannot be explained. I think it lot of it comes from the fact that ic engines can be tinkered with, taken to bits repaired and returned to their former glory, something that is difficult to do with an electric engine. I have a particular passion for the OS 40 FSR engine, possibly because it was my first real RC Engine. Over the lockdown period I have bought several of these engines in various states. I have stripped, cleaned ,replaced bearings and tuned them. I will shortly be listing them on a well known site, probably not making a profit but mainly for the enjoyment of being able to do it.

There must be some psychological condition that causes some of us to anthropomorphise machinery like this! I quite like the phrase 'mechanical sympathy' although I fear my other half would call it something else. Perhaps if you sniff too much oil during some critical period of development...... I love the variety and personality of IC engines. Even two of the same make and model can be different and you get to know their quirks and foibles. I find that my modelling process starts with the engine, something unusual, new to me or an irresistible ebay bargain which then provides the inspiration and direction for the rest of the project. What would suit the engine best, scale model, classic aerobat, old timer or maybe a biplane? Next comes the airframe to fit, (thank you outerzone). I can't imagine doing this with an electric setup despite many obvious advantages to that choice of power. I do have some small electric motors in very light models and a powered glider where they make perfect sense.

Weather has been so good progress has been rather pedestrian. However, the wing is growing gradually. The Sea Fury has a flat centre section and then the outer panels angle up to create a polyhedral type appearance. Once the centre section was completed a 3 3/4” high block was placed below the outer rib on one side of centre section and then the opposing outer panel built over the plan and sheeted. With that complete I am now ready to do the same on the other side. Once again the trailing edge has 0.4mm ply let in to the 3/32 balsa sheeting to mitigate against hangar rash. In the background of the top picture is my P47 fuselage hanging up. Sadly a hangar queen currently as my new club insists I have my B test before flying her as its a little over 7.5kg. Getting 2 examiners together at the patch on a favourable flying day during a pandemic is proving a considerable challenge. At least I have been able to get out flying my Laser 180 powered Extra 330 to practice for the test, which by the time I can hustle both examiners together I should to be able to do the routine with my eyes half closed.

Just a thought, is there a capacitor (condenser) across the points? they can fail shorted when hot.

Jesus looked across the table and asked "So, where have you been the last few months"? God replied "I've been all round Yorkshire". Jesus was shocked. "There's been a pandemic for a year and you've been in Yorkshire! What were you doing there"? God smiled and quietly replied "Working from home lad, working from home".

ooorr...you could repair the damaged flap you have. find the damaged section and see if you can cut an access to that section that will not show once the model is finished, or can be easily touched in with a little paint, you can probably get some glue in there and repair the damage. As you say, building is half the fun and some balsa bashing skills will be needed during your flying career. Its going to be mighty expensive if you dont repair minor damage and just get something new. While i cant fault your enthusiasm, i would very strongly recommend you build a few simpler models first as a mistake there will be less impactful and less expensive. Pick up whichever trainer it is you desire and at the very least build that before getting too far down the rabbit hole on the P51 as you are likely to find that your inexperience causes you a substantial issue which cannot be easily fixed. Again i am not trying to be mr grumpy, its just that you have a great model there and it would be unfortunate to make a costly mistake so early in the process. GD3, plenty of these are flying with Lasers. Not sure its fair for me to recommend one though.

...and for you animal lovers out there; HOW TO GIVE A PILL TO A CAT 1) Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on each side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow. 2) Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat gently in left arm and repeat process. 3) Retrieve cat from bedroom, pick up and throw soggy pill away. 4) Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm, holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for count of ten. 5) Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse in from garden. 6) Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into cat's mouth. Drop pill down ruler and rub cat's throat vigorously. 7) Retrieve cat from curtain rail, get another pill out of foil wrap. Make note to buy new ruler and repair curtains. Carefully sweep up figurines and vases from hearth and set on one side for gluing later. ? Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with head just visible from below armpit. Put pill in end of drinking straw, force mouth open with a pencil and blow into drinking straw. 9) Check label to make sure pills not harmful to humans, drink glass of water to take taste away. Apply sticking plaster to spouse's forearm and remove blood from carpet with cold water and soap. 10) Retrieve cat from neighbour's shed. Get another pill. Place cat in cupboard and close door just enough so that head is showing. Force mouth open with dessert spoon. Flick pill down throat with rubber band. 11) Fetch screwdriver from garage and put cupboard door back on hinges. Apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of last tetanus shot. Throw T‑shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom. 12) Ring fire service to retrieve cat from tree across the road. Apologise to neighbour who crashed into fence swerving to avoid cat. Take last pill from foil wrap. 13) Tie cat's front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table. Find heavy‑duty pruning gloves from shed. Push pill into mouth followed by a large piece of fillet steak. Hold head vertically and pour 2 pints of water down throat to wash pill down. 14) Get spouse to drive you to the local casualty department. Sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearms and removes pill from right eye. Call furniture shop on way home and order new dining table. 15) Arrange for RSPCA to collect cat and ring local pet shop to see if they have any hamsters.

Oh, the irony...

Well 7 months later and I decided to address the problem I had with one of the engines. To cut a long story short I took the problem motor off the 'plane and then it was obvious what was wrong, the carbs on that engine were not mechanically balanced, in other words the barrels were opening at different angles, I don't know when that happened but I adjusted both so that they were in sync, put the engine back on and bingo, it ran perfectly. I then balanced the low and high end of both engines and with no more excuses I took it up to the field today for its maiden flight. the following video shows that flight which didn't end quite the way I was expecting!