Don Fry

El gobo here, exiting, as in interesting times.

Exiting, thought Wales were going under at one point, but their fitness got them through, and a bit of mental resolve.

Actually, the cost of being a sellers market. Supply and demand.

What’s the Perspex do, Toto?

You want to write on that bog paper, your call mate.

We are in the first year of a El Niño cycle, if true to form, next year the hotter of the two year cycle. Really looking forward to that.

Quite right Brian, and get the fuzz sorted, to clear the tracks quicker. Off left thought, some of those mechanical shovels, as used on that film Soylent Green, springs to mind, then fuzz can sort out the contents of the skip at their leasure. Then again, why bother with the pitchforks et al, use a mechanical shovel, and out-gun the fuss. I have a mate in the UK, runs a fourth-hand plant business, cheap as chips. Can put you in touch.

Wick

Stand corrected, regs have changed since I needed to bother with them.

A Speedo needs to be within +/- 10% to comply with Contruction and Use regulations. So cameras are set at 33 mph. Not to do so would open the fus up to a defence, “my Speedo reads slow”, and to prove it the fus would need to seize the car to check its Speedo calibration, to refute the claim, what they can’t do, so you get 10%. And more if generous. Just don’t assume generosity.

Yea, right Tim. Some time back I’m returning home from the UK, via Roscoff, and first leg, travel along the Brittany peninsula, to get on the A10 south. So it’s a 90 kph duel carriageway. I have a sat nav so know my velocity. I have cruise control so I can set my speed. I know, as in the UK you get a 10% leeway, ( speedo error, Construction and Use regulations only spec 10% either way to comply). I know in France there is an additional 2 kph leeway. Got the maths wrong in my head as I sailed along, set the cruise control 3 kph above all the add ons, and proceeded to sail through 3 cameras in 65 minutes. only good thing, small amounts only get point per offence. Still cost though. At least the government say thank you as you pay here.

I suggest you start looking for a 4.5 kg plane kit, or a 3 kg plane kit. Or both. The inertia of bigger stuff is a challenge; ie, the extra energy on impact, rough landings, causes issues. As in exponentially more difficult repair, and/or expensive repair. Toto, I love you, but concentrate on the challenge in front of your nose. Spend money, enthusiasm on that goal. I tell you again, a cause of failing in this hobby is, “ I’m spending a load of dosh on this, I’m not seeing much reward” . Usually spent on not NEEDED expenditure. Buy shmbo some flowers, chocolates, better investment.

Living in a pretty place, and the shop is lost, I’m not sure I would want the tourists. WW 3 is breaking out round the corner, about a space, surrounded by three houses, owned by persons of 3 nationalities. Divided to three gardens, no common ground in outlook, and one owner, a hermit like (shy, introvert?) allowing the bamboo to grow. Even complaining about his fig tree overhanging the lane. Nice figs. I just borrowed a huge set of step ladders off the village green team. Picked 2.5 kilos. Payment a couple of jars of courgette and fig chutney. I didn’t grow the courgettes either. The figs I dried in the air fried. I won’t even mention the other two. They both grace my table, but not together and I keep my mouth shut. Innocent entertainment.. Holiday season gone now, it’s tranquil.

Butt the sheets together, and tape, all along the butt. Then open the joint, like a hinge and glue. Close the hinge, and weight it to dry. I keep some iron t-section fence posts for these sort of jobs. Heavy, and absolutely flat.

That’s interesting IDD, seems they are round the corner, battery factories don’t get built on a whim and a promise, the money men like them. But as you say, let someone else try it out on the street. That is actually my main gripe about EVs, (apart from subsidising rich people to drive electric guzzlers) is I havn’t yet seen one that gives me the feeling I got from Fords in the 60/70s, arrrr, this is right, escort, cortina, transit el al.

Small point IDD, sodium batteries have been coming in the next few years for as long as I can remember. Flyin, don’t need a lecture from a random Ossy thank you. Prefer someone with some background and track record.

I think that’s some clever airbrushing, the French blue, sprayed over the bog green. The colour ways repeat, on the fusalage. Very nice.

Tough love, model aircraft. Onwards and upwards.

Yes you can, someone throws a banana skin on the pavement, you slide on it, and suffer damage or injury, you can try to make a case that it was foreseeable and careless. Trouble is, prove it, and bear it mind (cynic I’m afraid), most folk go to lying toad mode. Also, one problem, car drivers, being in charge of a tool capable of great harm, are required to have a bit more care. So the balance is against the driver. Try driving in France, here there is a presumption, hit a cyclist with a car, cars at fault unless you can show otherwise. Just bear in mind, travelling up a one way street the wrong way is not considered a reason to say you were not at fault if you hit the biker. So the peasant on foot is bullied by both groups. And bikers en mass is a sight to put fear in the heart. I am a cynic I know, but i’ve had to live life with the motto, no lowest common denominator for human behaviour. Then you have good bits, and don’t get disappointed.

Afford a car, send a lacky to find some, while you get down the pub. Simples.

Arrrrr, but when dun with, nice curry. Also on an educational note, Napoleon, on his invasion of Russia, planned to do the job when oats were available for the dobbins, by plunder. Wet seasion, no oats , and his army was short of dobbins. Makes range anxiety pale to nowt.

Welcome, but can’t help.

I’m not the one who reckoned two deaths were nothing, and then spouted off with suppositions and wandering assumptions. Note also, what part of ignoring a speed limit (with impunity) is part of the reason for the high death rates in France.

I have just bought a 30 amp supply. Huge for my use, with a fan. Not mentioned in the advert, it’s got a pot to adjust the voltage . So it now works off 15 volts. €29 delivered. Well pleased.

Data Paul?