Shaunie

I have one of these, I use it all the time at work. I used to use Weller stuff but it just got too expensive. **LINK**

Posted by Nigel R on 02/10/2018 14:08:09: In general, people seem unwilling to pay for 'services' rather than physical goods. Too true! I do electrical and diagnostic work on cars. Customers appear happy to have given the previous garage hundreds of pounds for parts that haven't fixed the fault, yet whinge like mad when I give them a bill for a few hours labour that has their car running properly again. As for hoarding, I'm one of the worst, I even keep sloppy servos for spares etc. It might work out though, I'm just about to make an animated zombie head for Halloween,some of the rubbish servos can go in there and keep the decent ones for flight.

Completed. Certainly seems to keep circling around the same topic several times before moving on. I feel that, properly applied, we have most of the necessary legislation in place already. My concern is heavy-handed use of any new legislation. i.e. most would consider "breaking the law with a drone" to be dropping drugs into a prison, terrorist activity or flying near to an active airport. I'm worried it will be interpreted by the police as "an unidentified complainant believes you are infringing his privacy, despite the fact he lives over 200 yards away, and its easier to make you land rather than tell the complainant he is being silly"

Just helicoil the stripped thread, kits are cheap on eBay. You'll be back to the original size but the thread will be stronger.

My rule of thumb which works for almost every two stroke is: - if it idles fast and runs down then it’s lean, if it bogs and then picks up its rich. Make a small adjustment in either direction and see if it’s worse or better. If it’s worse, go the other way, if it improves it carry on in the same direction.

You should have moved the car to a “place of safety” as you did not want it to get damaged while you pursue your lawful activity on the field. You are so sorry but you cannot recollect where you placed it, but receipt of xxx pounds as a contribution towards repair of the damage caused may refresh your memory! Edited By Shaunie on 14/05/2018 23:25:37

As a little aside, there has been discussion here about beefing up the supply infrastructure. Well it’s happening on the estate where I work they will shortly be installing eight container sized diesel generators which will feed into the grid at the substation they will be next door to. They will bolster supply at times of high demand. So basically all that will happen with all these green cars is that the source of pollution will be moved next door to me.

One of the surprises of UK business, is that the wrong people make the most money. Yes to the technician, the tradesman. But why should the middle managers receive far more than the doers? Why are the business rates so high, when the people paying the bills receive a very poor services, why is the money spent on those who say we deserve it, not those who earn it? Now that should have some spluttering. Edited By Erfolg on 26/09/2017 19:57:33 Never a truer word spoken, that's because those who get the most are the same guys who decide who gets what! With respect to spares prices, there is a difference between making a living from slow moving parts and holding customers over a barrel because you know the part cannot be obtained elsewhere. This is common with electronic spares for cars (my trade), I'm fed up with explaining this to my customers as they think I'm part of the profit loop, I get 4.5% on Ford electrical parts for instance, yet someone is making a lot of money for an engine ECU on a Fiesta Diesel at £1400 retail! Same as the cowl, just that the scale is bigger. You would expect smaller items to be worse relatively speaking, as the admin time is the same regardless of the value of the item but that seems not to be the case. Shaunie

Lapsed now but back in the day I was G8XJX. Shaunie.

As far as I interpret the regs, the intention is primarily to avoid conflict with full size and ensure the aircraft lands (crashes) locally to the flying site. To this end it is best that the aircraft has the minimum amount of energy when it does so. We cannot predict the attitude of the aircraft when the failure occurs so I would suggest that for most aircraft neutral controls and either closed throttle for electric and idle for I/C is the best that can be done. The last thing we want is for a transient lock out to stop the engine and creating a deadstick situation where idle allows the pilot to regain control and power. Shaunie.

Bob has got there before me but I was wondering whether an excessively rich mixture is causing en excessively high compression ratio which is causing the pre-ignition. Whilst a lean mixture can cause detonation and excessively rich mixture can cause similar symptoms You may have got yourself stuck in an "It's detonating, need a richer mixture" loop. Shaunie.

You could convert to 2.4Gigs with an Frsky hack module. Shaunie.

Not sure if it's been posted here before, for anyone who's a biker https://youtu.be/T2QFxoDHU9o Shaunie. Edited By Shaunie on 23/08/2017 21:40:32

I have to agree with all that McG has put. It is important to remember that an LED is a current operated device and not a voltage operated one. Difficult for non-electrically minded folks to get their heads around! The higher up the colour spectrum the higher the LED voltage. In the absence of specific data 20mA is a good guideline current for a small LED. Shaunie.

My business insurance as an autoelectrician, which is road risks, contents and liability combined was gradually racking up with my broker and every year I got a renewal quote and statement saying " we can confirm this is competitive". It was £2800 then £3400, then £3800 culminating in £4300. My next renewal they wanted £4800! This was the straw that broke the camels back and went to a broker whose first response was "that's far to much" first quote was £2800, with "we can do better than that" ending at £2000! My current insurer said " we can match that", my reply "tough, you've ripped me off for too long, I'm going elsewhere out of principle" this is a big company with a three letter name that is the same forward and backward. Six years on my premium is substantially the same! A good broker is worth his weight. Shaunie.

Think of it as a delayed double post! Forgot I'd already put it here, I blame my age! Shaunie.

I went to the Doctor because my throat felt like I had a fish slice stuck down it. He thinks I've got Utensilitis! Shaunie.

I went to see the doctor last week because my throat felt like I'd got a fish slice stuck down it. He thinks I've got Utensilitis. Shaunie. Edited By Shaunie on 08/05/2017 23:14:35

In the Olden Days, cars had sticky out aerials. I have an old car aerial, dismantled and with the end sharpened which I use for cutting holes in suitable, forgiving materials. I also have a shotgun certificate, I can't imagine empty cases from this being any use in this application 😜 Shaunie.

I don't know if this is relevant or not but with my DX7 (the original one, which apparently was made by JR) you had to set "trim include" to on so that trim is carried across with the mix. Shaunie.

I've also had problems fluffy hinges delaminating. I had some Mylar hinges come loose... on a model I built around 1992, then flew the pants off it, hung it on a ceiling for 16 years and then started flying it again around 2011. Spotted a problem on a workshop preflight and reglued them. As the plane was about 18 years old I wasn't too worried. I never normally pin my hinges but I do aggressively sand the shine off. Shaunie   Edited By Shaunie on 26/03/2017 20:49:25

Got the Edge preflighted and in the car along with the Fusion. Got to the strip and there was no point putting the windsock out, we would have lost it. The two barden boys were playing with a crane bag intended for grass mowings. With it tied onto some plastic tape it made a passable kite. Went home without getting the planes out of the car! Shaunie Edited By Shaunie on 25/03/2017 21:54:01 Edited By Shaunie on 25/03/2017 22:02:28

What made me think about this is that many horticultural derived engines have a relatively small number of far apart fins whilst specifically designed model engines can sometimes have very fine fins. No doubt in my mind that fine fins look nicer and give more surface area but do they really cool any better? My suspicion that turbulence helps to break up the boundary layer seems to be right then. Shaunie.

So when it comes to flying surfaces we all know about boundary layer effects, to a greater or lesser degree of course. This layer can be a couple of mm thick I believe . So logic would say that with many of our model engines the fins are often only one or two mm apart. So in this case do we get much airflow between them at all? Is it simply that the airflow is already very turbulent due to the prop, cowling etc. Expecting BEB along at any moment to correct my thinking. Shaunie.

I can't imagine there will be a problem. I have a set of Futaba 148s (5) and a HiTec servo running from an AR7000. I also have a set of 3003s running off an orange Rx. Three things to remember, Plug polarisation methods are slightly different, ensure you get the connectors in correctly, if you get it wrong you will do no damage they just won't work. Servo travel is slightly different between the brands, measure control surface travel before and after the change. Only run a supply voltage that does not exceed that of the lowest voltage device. Shaunie.