Don Fry

Posted by tigerman on 23/03/2017 15:45:38: I got fed up with my Spektrum radio gear and ( I will not go into detail why ).I sold all my Spektrum gear and have gone over to Futaba.In my opinion far better and I am very happy with what I have brought and they are in this country if things go wrong which I am sure the Futaba gear will not be a problem With what I am reading looks like I made a good decision It is such a shame H/H had such a good reputation to.It is sad to see! Tigerman, you had some gear that did not let you down. You lost confidence in it from what others said. You seem, having ditched the gear, to have joined the stone throwers. And you have had the new gear for less than a week, so less than 20 flights?. Throw stones if you wish, but duck this returned brick.

Iqon, you are so right. Over the years, in deals with Inwood and Just Engines, in cock up, they sort the problem. And when I am the problem, they are philosophical about it. And I return.

Tom, you used to be in retail.

As you say KC, deal with your seller, it's the sellers problem. And one reason to place a downside marker when you weigh up who you do business with.

Probably is , but the sheer pleasure of hanging yer bags, without pressure, or risk of gentlemans bits being exposed, braces are good. But I do admit, I have a mindworm of wing struts doing the job.

To make ghee, unsalted butter in a pan over low heat, leave, and it foams a bit as the water boils off, then it goes clear. There are white bits on the bottom of the pan. Pass through a sieve into a jam jar, keeps for weeks out of a fridge, in a fridge lasts forever. For a better flavour, leave on the heat longer, and watch those white bits on the bottom ( I believe they are milk proteins), when they START to brown a bit, the ghee gets a nuttier flavour. Note brown as in light oak, not ebony, and START to brown, not all over brown. No need to stir at any time. About half an hour start to finish. And if you want to taste heaven but not actually see Gabriel for a reservation, try roast potatoes done in ghee and duck ( or goose) fat

Anyway I'm a couple of quid up. I have dug a pack out of the going to the tip bag, consigned there because it was puffy, and on assumption not a good one. And it seems it does perform. Numpty with batteries me.

Peter Millers recipe, if you take out the bacon, and add anchovy, capers, and olives gives a dish named, in translation from Italian, as "lady of the night". Who would not want to eat a dish so named. I have this morning baked bread, and helped with the heavy bits of SWMBO's production of a huge batch of meatballs, to freeze, and tonight with paprika sauce and pasta. but a favourite is what can I do with this soup. Old vegetables, carrot tops, leek tops, bits of bacon, nettles, nasturtium leaves, hawthorn leaves, sprouts, broccoli stems, mix and match Chop an onion, sauté in butter for a few seconds, and then add the other chopped bits, lid on, sauté 10 minutes, no colouration. For a thicker soup, I can't remember the English word, here it is a pottage, add a chopped floury potato. Add chicken stock, or one of those jelly stock pots, or water, season, and boil, to cooked through. Wizz it in a stick blender, perhaps through a sieve, perhaps add cream, soured cream, créme fraishe. The cabbage varieties go with bits of blue cheese floating on top. Costs nothing, delicious, and is good training in sorting out what flavours work together. Today I had cauliflower and potato, with tarragon and something sweet like basil in the background. The freezer pots have basic labels only, no detailed ingredients.

Posted by Nigel R on 21/03/2017 08:34:48: gangster, mattyb, the effects of brownout are something you can mitigate in SW, obviously you can't fix the issue because it's an external problem (as far as the RX's software is concerned). For our situation here; it is electrical loads causing volt drop, you would probably have several lists of loads to remove when the voltage dropped to different levels. As a first line of defence you'd stop driving (or return to a failsafe position) non-essentials; flaps/gear/aux stuff, then as a second line (if voltage doesn't rise, or drops further to a lower level) you might return to a standard full failsafe position for all controls. Subsequently if voltage drops so low the CPU can't operate you'd want the 'warm reboot' operation to be performed much, much quicker than the cold start (first switch on). Fixing warm reboot might involve radio protocol changes (e.g. to allow the RX to continue working without a full negotiation with the TX) as well as SW fixes (store your last operating state to allow instant return to last know positions and so forth). This kind of strategy is what goes into full size power systems (my day job), the big boys get highly concerned if your electrical system goes down unnecessarily and/or stays down in an emergency. From the sound of things, Spektrum have concentrated on sorting the warm reboot time, which at least gets you out of a hole when the battery goes south. But is not Matty saying that the RX works to voltages where the the servos are dying from lack of volts. So how does the battery find the power to move 4 or 5 servos. Keep it simple, I just shove this stuff into airframes, and remember schoolboy physics. I can follow the arguments of the above couple of pages.

But in fairness KC, while I broadly agree with you, the extra costs to Germany are not much. I am thinking of buying a DX 6e, and in France it is £120, plus postage. Inwood £97, will get it France for less. And if I wait till a friend travels, I am up 20%. Then the temptation to deal with any seller becomes tempting. I understand this is a shallow, brutal view of the relationship between buyer and seller, but in 2017, that is the world we live in. And perhaps our downfall if we keep driving for a lower price, at a better quality.

Very well written Matty. And the edit is nowt to do with me, but my inability to keep up, and in particular get to live with predictive spell checkers.  Edited By Donald Fry on 20/03/2017 19:20:17

Cheers Ern. And I have just ordered 40 various grade high tensile machine screws, 6 mm, 80 mm long. Cost to post, £ 2.50, international small packet Uk to France. That's more weight and bulk than a receiver..

Pasta on a Sunday? But that looks sore.

I have never had a transmitter failure in 50 years. The odd receiver fail, but then the majority could have a crash damage component. It's the switch, extension lead, and battery you have to watch. And installation.

I get a load of Chinese Groceries from Bristol to SW France for twelve quid. The courier bends with the load. A receiver is about a quid more than UK postage. And if under in the phrase of saleable quality, or whatever the current UK sales law is, your seller has the problem, not you. And Erf, I love you, but I believe Submarine May has bigger concerns than Horizon moving to Germany. Just as the German Chancellor, on her current journey to the States, apart from not holding hands, will not be congratulating "the Donald" on this small movement of American industry.

SWMBO does, " yer nowt a pound, mucks tuppunce". Get that you are in deep do do.

Got most, but what on Gods earth is a bo, and a wo. And Dave, second knowledge acquisition or the day, thank you.. And George wubblewee is a pale shadow to the present incumbent.

Or "can't knock skin off rice puddin"

Dave, I think this is a reference to the Sin Eater of rural Welsh history, one who eats a meal laid out on the corpse, and takes the sins of life, in exchange for the calories.

From a police force a long time ago before computers and correct thought processes, closing thoughts on police incident logs. Incidents involving violent, aggro, verbal abuse, etc. NHBO, for no human beings involved. Incidents like bee swarms, cat up tree, NTDOB, for nothing to do with old bill. There are obscene version of this. And a favourite from a man mountain ex colleague, growled out, "pond-life". Not forgetting another colleague universally known as Bungalow. Or the coroners officer, Dai Death.

Paul thank you, my can't educate pork is obviously a shorthand of yours. I have always wondered where it comes from. I new bit of knowledge for the day

Lovely Welsh expression, "can't educate pork". And one my Welsh mum came out with, "none more blind that they that won't see"

Try finding a 5000 6s battery on their finder. After 40 minutes you will find, if you live in Europe, you are out of luck. The old site would have told you in 10 seconds. Their stuff is OK, but you can't find it. Yesterday, their prop finder told me, in all seriousness, they do not do 12 by 6 counter clockwise plastic 2 blade props. How difficult is it to write a site where I am not offered stuff from places they will not post from. And we are months down the road from the old clunky site to the new platform which is 2 steps back. Perhaps the owners are happy that it even works a bit, after their disasters.

Anyway, after another year from the six nations, we have, Italy last, again. And a load of others, in a rank, but nothing too much between them. Fancy hammering the Blacks anyone? Did we see the accuracy anyone? Or much of the relentless hammering of the line, with a belief they will break before the fat lady sings. Methinks not. For me a work in progress.

Jameson, heathen brew.