Lazygit

I think the problem for traders, according to one I spoke to, is that they look to at least cover costs of going to a show. 20 years ago they did well and so could do show offers and still turn a profit. Now they sell small amounts and wonder if it's worth attending. Years ago they could make £thousands in a day, now it is likely to be low £hundreds. Not enough to earn a living. The problem? Us! We want things cheap and so buy from the likes of Hobbyking whose business model is to sell and take no interest in taxes of the countries of their customers. The customers have no interest in paying the taxes either. However, traders who operate in the UK have to abide by the tax laws. When goods are imported, the IMPORTER is responsible for the taxes and for the regulations the goods should conform to, such as CE marking. If a trader imports goods they take the rap, when modellers do it they brag about how little they had to pay. This is IMO a major reason why model shops are closing and why shows are not as vibrant as they used to be.

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Hey, don't wrap this up. There may be a lot more interest than you think. Just because people don't post comments doesn't mean they're not interested.  I've only just found the thread and it looks really good. Unless you are saying you are no longer interested. Edited By Lazygit on 31/05/2014 01:13:54 Edited By Lazygit on 31/05/2014 01:25:29 Edited By Lazygit on 31/05/2014 01:26:56

I use short pieces of 1/4 square hard balsa. Drill a hole through, smaller than the diameter of the pin you use, then push the pin through the hole and it grips.

Amazing, glue arrived today. Thick CA, maybe they are trying to tell me something.

Posted by Tim Mackey on 26/05/2014 23:12:37: I have advocated parallel balance charging of same cell count batteries for years - theres simply no good reason not too. As for imbalance with packs before you start, then providing the voltage difference is not huge, then just plug in the main plugs to the balance board first, and any "rush of current" from the high pack, to the low pack, will be via the main leads, not the balance leads. people often worry about this, but frankly its not an issue as any current flow from one battery the other will be over in a fraction of a second, and both batteries are now seen as one - its IMPOSSIBLE for two or more batteries to be at different voltages if their terminals are all connected to common nodes. You may be correct, the pulse of current between batteries of differing voltage will be over in a fraction of a second, The questions are, how big is the pulse, and how long is it and what effect does it have? Until those questions are answered saying it is not an issue is without foundation. Batteries are not capacitors which store charge directly, they are miniature chemical processing factories. Even charging batteries on their own, well within their specified limits they will never lay down the chemicals in they they were when first manufactured. This is one reason batteries have a life that eventually comes to an end, and the battery fails. Slamming high current pulses in will shorten their life, just as does fast charging, fast discharging, deep discharging, overcharging. Do these high current pulses make a battery more likely to fail catastrophically? If your answer is no, you should provide supporting evidence. If the answer is "possibly" you should stop doing it. Catastrophic lipo failure is, well, catastrophic. Ask someone with no house as a result. If the manufacturers say it's ok to parallel charge, that's fine, they have done the work to justify it, otherwise just buy another quad charger. Even at £100 it is still a pretty low cost, one time, insurance premium to help give batteries the best care possible, maximise their life and reduce the risk of catastrophic failure.

My goodness!! the number of names I have not seen before.

Many thanks Tim, Malcolm and CMFC. Excellent meeting. Must get some more builds done to use up the AJ Blades I seem to have come home with.

I'm really untidy and rarely do any housekeeping like clearing caches, closing windows etc. I might have 40!windows open at the same time. I don,t have much in the way of problems, and I use Safari. It's not by choice, it's just there. Try it out Tom, it might help. My cache requirements might be reduced as I search using startpage.com. It doesn't record your IP address either.

The balsa will vanish faster than you could imagine, so I use mine held in a stand and guides on a board underneath. I use 1mm dia carbide PCB cutters. You can get them on ebay. It would be worth making a stand to turn it into a table router too. An example Apologies if this has screwed the display but that's what happens when adding a url is so unintuitive. Maybe one day it will be sorted. It's not that difficult, lg! Edited By Pete B - Moderator on 25/08/2013 09:19:10

Not all PVA glue is the same. I have tried various to get something cheaper, B&Q does not work, Poundland Great Expressions doesn't work. Both will be ok for lots of general purpose gluing no doubt, but for covering film and irons, not. Any washable PVA is likely to be a failure too. Some of these are mentioned in the More Impex link above.

The TN site suggests a .61 engine, so I would think a .65 is adequate. I have a ASP .61 in a 60" biplane. It's a light build, but vertical climbs are easy. I didn't think much of the engine's running until I replaced the carb with an OS52 carb. It transformed it into a much better unit. Smoother running, lower fuel consumption, may even give more power, but I haven't tested that.

I suppose it's not so bad, **LINK** this is full of airfoils and airplanes, but it does provide the correct info.  Keep up the interesting vids. Edited By Lazygit on 31/05/2013 07:35:22

it would leave nice guide lines in soft runways. Drop the tail wheel in, and ground tracking will be easy.

Posted by fly boy3 on 29/05/2013 17:54:28: Hi Kevin, I'm sure our friends across the pond and probably many other countries are very interested with Shahid's exellent videos, so using American English will appeal to most people. Cheers Edited By fly boy3 on 29/05/2013 17:55:46 To appeal to most people it would have to be in Brazillian Portuguese. American "English" is ok for those who can't speak the genuine English as a stop-gap until they can learn the proper way. It was a Brit that invented the first heavier than air flying machine, but the US did a hatchet job on the publicity. So it's tailplane, fin, rudder, elevator, aeroplane, aerodrome, aluminium, etc, etc