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Balsa skin on wing
david james 1 replied to Joe Newrick's topic in Building from Traditional Kits and Plans
I am scratch building a 1/6 warbird approx 70 in span. I am thinking about using 0.8mm birchply instead of balsa to skin the wings. I know it has been tried before but would be grateful for comments - the pros and cons. -
Complete-a-Pac (CAP) Bucker Jungmeister
david james 1 replied to david james 1's topic in Scale and Semi-Scale kits
Thanks I have just phoned them and they have the plans and cowl but could not do the ribs. Someone else has put me on to SLEC and I am getting a quote from them. Basically all the ribs are the same apart from a few in the centre section which are just variations so not too much to convert to CAD -
I want to buy a set of pre-cut wing ribs for my old CAP Jungmeiseter. Does anyone know here I could get them. As far as I can ascertain, it is uneconomic to get them laser cut without a CAD file.
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The wings on my old but, still enjoyable to fly, CAP Bucker Jungmeister are looking past their sell by date. I have had a couple of bad landings/ crashes and the repairs on the wings have not been too straight. I thought a good winter project would be a pair of new ones and renovate the fuse. However CAP are now out of business and, unless anyone knows better, a set of wing ribs can't be bought. I could cut them out myself but nearly 60 balsa an 12 ply ones are required. I seems to be uneconomic to get laser cut ones unless you have the CAD files. How would I go about converting paper files into these?
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I have just bought a second hand model with a Super Tigre 2000 engine in it. This is obviously quite an old engine but it seems to be in good condition with plenty of compression. After a bit of fiddling about, I had it running quite well but couldn't get a clean transition from tick-over. I have taken the carby apart to clean it and now want the "factory default" needle settings as a starting point to tune it up. I have the original leaflet that came with the engine but it is no help. Can anyone give me a starting point?
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Vortex and Steve Davis are definitely who I am looking for. But the facebook email address doesn't seem to work and he doesn't seem to answer his phone. Does anyone know if he is still in business? Edited By david james 1 on 25/02/2016 14:16:06
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Vortex Vacforms
david james 1 replied to Chris Bott's topic in Building from Traditional Kits and Plans
Does anyone know if Vortex are still in business? The website and facebook pages still exist but I have tried phoning this number several times and it rings but is not answered. I tried emiling the facebook email address but it pinged back to me. all the previous post are a bit ancient so I wondered if Steve has given up -
I know there is a supplier of vac form of canopies etc called Steve something. Does any one know his name and how to contact him?
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Thank you Engine Doctor -SUCCESS !! The self tapper and 30 secs in boiling water and it came straight out. easy peasy ! Now all i have to do is change the piston ring and re-assemble
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I am no stranger to dismantling model engines but this OS FS 70 is giving me the gyp. The cap socket head and backplate screws were in so tight that I have had to drill their heads off !! With the aid of boiling water, I have got the liner out and the plastic pad on the end of the gudgeon pin. But I can't now get the pin out. There is a hole at the back of the casting to get it through but no hole at the front to put a drift in to push it out. I have tried whittling down a bit of dowel and driving that in to pull it out. I have also put a bend on the end of a piece of piano wire to try and hook it out -all with no success. what else should I try? - would boiling water on the piston help? Edited By Pete B - Moderator on 10/01/2016 19:02:10
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Im giving up on this and drilling the heads off as soon as I have got some replacements. I put the mini-blowlamp on the screw securing the rocker bar, but all I have got for my trouble is a ruined screw head. My torxs head removers are either too small or large to be forced in. The actual head screws are recessed into the head so most of the heating/ freezing suggestions are impractical. I am not new to dismantling model engines (including FS ones) and I have never found one as difficult as this. The sockets for the allen key seem to be more than usually shallow
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I have got both an electric heatgun and a pencil type blowlamp. So which bit and how hot?
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I want to fit a new piston ring to my OS FS70 as I think the compression is a bit low. It has done plenty of hours! These little cap headed cylinder head screws are really hard to shift. I have got the allen key bending quite a lot with the pressure but the screws don't want want to shift. I feel that any more pressure will only cause the key to turn in the head and I know from previous experience that then the only option is drilling the head off the screws. Anybody got some suggestions?
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it is hard to tell from the photo but I think these may be it http://www.sussex-model-centre.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=46719 thanks Glasshopper
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We are getting warm here - it is like four of these in a single moulding
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No - I don't think these are what I am after
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Thanks for the suggestion, Mike. I have had a look at power boards but they are not what I am after. Servo extension leads from the receiver plug into the bottom of the "manifold" . You then push the leads from the wing into the top of this object, so the leads are not floating around inside the fuselage. It is a bit like four servo lead clips moulded together which you can screw down inside the fuse. Edited By david james 1 on 30/12/2015 20:34:36 Edited By david james 1 on 30/12/2015 20:35:00
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A couple of club members have turned up at the field with so-called "manifolds" fixed inside their fuselages. These are strips of plastic, which can be glued or screwed to the fuse into which two or four servo extension leads from the wing aileron or flap servos can be plugged. They make a very neat installation. They seem to be a very extravagant price at the local model shop for a very simple plastic moulding. Does anyone know their proper name so I can Google or Ebay them to get some at a more reasonable price?
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No - I have never lived on the Island. I and my friend( who lived in mid-Kent) used to weekend in the chalet there. This was years before there was a flying club at Bartons Point - we had to dodge the sheep to fly I beleive the CYC merged with Sheerness YC and effectively disappeared
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I came across this by accident In the 1970's, my friend and I were members of the Catamaran Yacht Club and had chalets the other side of the canal from you. We were also tyro RC fliers and, after sailing, we would take our models to the sheep pasture your field was then, We had no training so often we left with model and came back with a bin-liner full of balsa. Happy days! Then in (I think) 1979, the bulldozers arrived and ripped the pasture up, put in the lake and turned it into the council park you know fly on.
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Posted by vic evans 1 on 07/10/2015 15:24:40: This relative newbie learnt to fly using Phoenix sim & a Dx6i Tx. I've since tried the PicaSim on my tablet & it's like chalk & cheese. Seriously , I don't think any novice, even the game savvy young, will succesfully make the transition from a PicaSim type sim to actual model flying with a 'real' Tx without tears. Phoenix type sims might be 'a little sophisticated' but are as close to real model flying you will get whist sitting in your armchair. I am in total agreement with your second paragraph. and that is why I want a proper mac/ipad compatible sim that uses a proper tranny. Buying a windows only sim and then having to use a win emulator on a mac seems a complex solution so that is why I tend to rule out Phoenix So for you tecchies - if i bought a trannie with a usb output -like this http://www.banggood.com/Wholesale-Httpwww_banggood_comWholesale-6CH-G4-XTR5_0-RC-Remote-Control-Flight-Simulator-For-Helicopter-Airplane-p-55419_html-p-55419.html would I be able to configure a mac/ipad with picasim to work?
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Can you use a proper RC tranny with Picasim - I found that flying the keyboard isn't really the same thing. It appears to be a free download -is that right? Edited By david james 1 on 07/10/2015 15:08:19
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My two grandsons (9 and 12) want to fly RC. I said I would buy them a simulator and, if they stuck with it and could fly the sim properly, I would set them up with the real thing. The snag is that their home is a microsoft free zone, full of Macs, ipads etc. As far as I can see, Phoenix is only Windows compatible and a little sophisticated (and expensive) for what I need. Any suggestions?
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You are taking me back a bit! I bought two plan/wing packs when Chris Foss launched them in RCME. A friend and I learnt to fly properly on them using the latest thing in engines - a Merco 60 I have had all of these plus the latest ARTF and a Foam-e. Can I suggest the photo is not a W4 at all- as you say the slope of the rudder post is too acute and there seems to be no change in slope between the windscreen and motor cowl. I think it is a look-alike.
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I don't think you did. Realising that there are no drawings of the front engine bearer section, I thought Icould work it out from the wreakage -it turned out quite well!