Shaunie

Press the up or down buttons at the top/right of the display. The clear button resets the timer to the starting value. With the DX7S it was the trainer switch. Good Tx, I still use one as my main transmitter, built by JR  I believe. Shaunie.   Edited By Shaunie on 12/03/2017 21:51:22

I'm not a professional electrician but I have always been led to believe that running a cooker off a ring main is bad practice. Every installation I've been involved with has the cooker fed by its own cable and MCB in the consumer unit. Shaunie.

Teapot fluid flow dynamics, only on this forum folks! Shaunie.

PG Tips teabag in the mug, add boiling water, whisk for thirty seconds and remove, add full fat milk and sugar to taste, job done. If the tea is orange you're not well, refer yourself for psychiatric evaluation 😇 . Shaunie.

Gonna throw my tuppence worth in and prepare to be shot down. The questions are important and valid, what however in my opinion is not important is knowing the numbers. Proof of this is that they have just gone and changed them. It is important to know the content and reasons not exactly what number is what. To use the motoring analogy, I know to stop for a red light, I have no idea what number rule it is in the Highway Code. Knowing the number has absolutely no bearing on the fact that if I fail to stop for a red light I am likely to collide with another car or a pedestrian and may cause injury, damage or death. Shaunie.

Used Southern modelcraft fuels years ago with no problems. Using Model Technics formula Irvine 10% now with no problems. I do wonder though whether we need so much oil in our fuels though. My Stihl chainsaw is over 20 years old on a diet of 50:1, that's 2% and revs at 13000 rpm with no problems. Shaunie.

Always repudiate the claim and ask for proof of the offence. If you wait until the charge is in the hands of a debt collection agency they are not concerned if the charge is valid or not, they are just there to collect. Shaunie.

Remember, it's up to them to provide proof of the offence, not up to you to provide proof of innocence. The cornerstone of English law is " Innocent until proven guilty". Shaunie.

Unlimited verticals on the 12X6 . Then again there's always the throttle stick. Trying to get parts for an engine rebuild then I'll get it back in the air. It really wasn't Looney Tunes it just went well. Like the Hi Boy, I've always powered my planes at the top end of the power envelope, I think it gets you out of trouble more often than it gets you into it! The throttle stick does more than control the volume. Shaunie.

All Diesel fuel by law is now 5% BioEthanol. A bit like government mandated coin clipping really as it coincidentally give around 5% less mpg. Don't worry about Adblue, Peugeot Citroen cars use Eolys at around £28 a litre and you usually need a refill of 4 litres at about 75000 miles as well as a DPF washout. Shaunie.

Twenty years ago the government only looked at the CO2 figure and none of the other pollutants. Developments in Diesel technology using higher pressures and smaller injector nozzles ( to further reduce the CO2) mean the soot particles are now so small they can pass straight through the lung membranes into the blood stream. Hence the development of DPF ( Diesel Particulate Filter) systems. Trust me, these are the work of the devil, if you do motorway work they are fine, but drive a modern Diesel mainly in town and you are in for a world of pain. Going back to petrol can only be a good thing as far as I'm concerned. The small amount of money you save with Diesel is just not enough to cover my bill if you need new injectors or a high pressure pump. The little Peugeot Citroen Diesel quite commonly destroys its high pressure pump and contaminates its injectors in the process, a couple of grands worth of parts and shed loads of labour to fit. Shaunie. Edited By Shaunie on 28/01/2017 18:58:46

I greatly enjoyed my Hi-Boy, but it was my second trainer not my primary one, quite slick and very responsive  for a trainer I think. I put an OS 45FSR in mine, maybe that was the difference. Built it around 1986 and only binned it a couple of years ago. Wish I'd kept it now! Low pass Pete, I built a Masterline Vandal, and still have it in the loft, it's going to get a rebuild soon. I put a Super Tigre 61 in mine with a tuned pipe, it was an absolute hoot, not over powered at all. It just worked really well together. I put an own design steering tail wheel on it. Take offs needed no more than half throttle. Went like stink on an MK 12X6 but sounded like a Stuka in a dive. Shaunie. Edited By Shaunie on 27/01/2017 19:47:20

I would have said that cable is likely to be too thin. As mentioned use some silicone cable as intended to extend LiPo leads, or of course use a glow stick! Shaunie.

Posted by Peter Miller on 22/01/2017 13:27:14: I was recently told this little story. The rear fuel injector on a BMW packed up. IT seems that it had a straight six engine. They could not get it out without removing the engine, a £2000 operation. There was no access throught the scuttle but someone (Not a BMW engineer) said why not cut a hole through above the injector so they did. Removed the faulty unit, fitted a new on and fitted a rubber hole plug in the hole which looks as it it was always meant to be there. Poor original design, blindness to see the obvious answer and so vast sums for a simple job. One more to the bodgers I don't know the specific model but on most BMWs you simply, remove the scuttle. Shaunie.

Two things Percy. I am a member of a BMFA affiliated club so I need BMFA membership for that. I am not dissatisfied with the BMFA, I just think they should level the playing field, that's all. Shaunie.

I'm a country member and proud of the fact! I've not always been a club member when I've been actively flying and have no idea why my membership should relate to the club I currently fly in. Now here's the rub, just because I am a member of the BMFA without going through the conduit of a club, why should I be a second class citizen and not get a vote? I know it's not an end of the world thing but I pay the same money, I should get the same rights. I am aware this might require constitutional changes and is probably due to poor setting up of the articles of the BMFA many years ago but it should be changed to ensure equal treatment of all members. Shaunie.

Replacement is the first option but if the crank is not available, as the OP first thought, then straightening is an option providing the deviation is minor. If the tip runout is only a couple of mm then surely if the bend is in the crank and not the prop or driver then the bend must be quite small. My engineers mind says that nothing is ever perfectly straight, round or true! How much runout you tolerate depends on the application. The largest machinery I have worked on is a Vertical Turning Lathe with a 12ft dia table, the smallest, a gold wire bonding machine working with 1.2thou wire, (two different careers). Shaunie.

If the engine is, as I presume, of a conventional design then the bend would be confined to the threaded end of the crank where the prop bolts on. The area between the two bearings is of a much larger diameter and is much less likely to get bent. What I am saying is that straightening the nose of the crank should be fairly straightforward and there is unlikely to be any runout implications on the bearings in my opinion. Shaunie.

Well, I'm a left-hander flying mode 2, I still can't chuck left-handed! I have excellent throttle control at take-off! Shaunie.

Chris, two strings of LEDs placed in inverse parallel will work fine. The blocking voltage of an LED is not great but is better than the forward voltage (Vf), if in doubt place a diode in series. I know that's how I would do it. Shaunie.

I strongly suspect it will be two strings of LEDs back-to-back (known as inverse parallel). Apply voltage in one direction and one string will light, reverse the polarity and the other string will light. For effects, the controller is probably generating a square wave ac waveform and controlling the brightness of each string by varying the duty cycle of each half (positive for one string and negative for the other). Shaunie.

Hi Donald, really not sure about your first paragraph, read it several times, makes little sense to me. With the rest, I'm not sure if you are criticising or complementing what I am trying to say. Backing off is what there seems to be too much of, with newbies standing on their own while little cliques chatter around them, I am not saying be pushy, I am saying be inclusive and welcoming, what is wrong with that? Life is full of risk, risk management I am familiar with. In our club the brain dead may of course be amongst the established members, not the newbies, I couldn't comment . Shaunie.

Our club has a nominal limit of 70 IIRC but we currently have around 73 members at the moment. So we must be doing something OK. I only joined a couple of years ago (long time country member of BMFA) as I already knew the Chairman and at least one other member. Nevertheless I still got the "stopping of conversation and turning heads" effect. Took a while to break the ice, then it was absolutely fine, now I love the friendship and banter. Now I realise we are mainly a group of grumpy old men gathered together to fly our toy planes but,  and this is important, when a new member arrives at the patch feeling as nervous as hell about flying and feels he is amongst a group of strangers who he feels may be judging him, his plane and his skills, then in this situation it is important to be friendly, to talk and listen, make the new member feel welcome, you may never see them again otherwise. Then he may go home having had a great day and talk to all his mates about it, presto, more prospective members. Hope that make sense, been a trying day. Shaunie.     Edited By Shaunie on 20/12/2016 19:30:00

The terminal voltage of a NiMh is only a nominal 1.25V anyway, perhaps 1.4V when bursting at the seams. Does this go straight on the plug or via a lead? It doesn't take much lead length to lose a significant amount of voltage when you've only got 1.25V to start with. What plug are you using? Enya No3s work well on a NiMh glow stick as they are 1.3-1.5V rated. A 2V plug driven by a NiMh on a leaded glow clip is never going to end well, in the winter anyway. The other thing is I never expect my plugs to glow bright yellow, reddish orange is fine for me. Too bright a glow can make an engine over-advanced when starting and make it bite back. Shaunie.

Thank you all for your advice, I will pass the info on. As I do not yet own a Laser, I made several attempts over the evening (it was club night) to steal it but he was watching it like a hawk 😎 Shaunie