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    Brian, Been driving since 1976! trust me I know the difference between dipped beam and main beam! The bend and rise is not severe enough to cause dazzle on dipped headlamps. Typically it always seems to be drivers with additional main beam lamps that do it. Shaunie.
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    Chris, Any new project can appear daunting if you have not tackled anything like it before! While you should keep an overview of the project in your head, you need to break it down into small tasks, each of which you feel you can achieve in one session. If that task completes with no problems, prepare the items for the next but think carefully about cramming another one in because that is where cock-ups lie! you will use the next session righting your last whoopsie. Take satisfaction from each task correctly completed. Look forward too much and the journey seems too long and disheartening. If at the end of the session you can think to yourself "that's the aileron servos in, tomorrow I'll do the linkages for them" you will enjoy the build more and it will be finished almost before you know it. Who knows, may be in a year or two you'll be thinking "perhaps I'm ready for a full kit build" or "there's a plan build I fancy having a go at". Remember, even the coolest scratchbuilders started at the bottom. Shaunie.
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    I have two points to make, hopefully without going to far OT. So many bicycle lights (or more accurately, lights used on bikes) are just basically torches. They have the wrong beam pattern for road use with no cut-off at the top, thus causing dazzle to other road users. Sometimes this can be adjusted out, sometimes not. How many motorists "dip for oncoming headlamps" and have been taught this is the proper way. By inference this means they don't dip for cyclists, pedestrians, wildlife or people waiting to pull out of side roads. What they should have been taught is to dip for anything with eyes that could be dazzled. Every night I pull out of a T-junction turning right which sits at the top of a small rise and on a slight left-hander. Now the dark nights are here you can guarantee that several times a week I will be waiting for a car from the left that strafes me with its main beams as it approaches, pointless, thoughtless and destroys my night vision when I need it the most. Rant over, Shaunie.
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    They let any old fruitcakes on this forum nowadays! To answer the OPs question I have several orange receivers for Spektrum and they've been faultless. In fact both planes I flew today had orange receivers, the only equipment failure I had was the nut holding the sticks 😎. Shaunie.
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    I think the problem with this question is our interpretation of the wording and the way the question is posed. As I see it the only effect of the conveyor belt runway is whether or not the safe wheel speed is exceeded. If the pilot was to open the throttles then the engine thrust will drive the aircraft forward with it accelerating until take off occurs. The question does not include this information i.e. If the throttles are opened or not, this is an assumption on the part of the reader. Shaunie.
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    I'm waiting with bated breath, don't hang about BEB! Shaunie.
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    Danny macaskill is truly gifted. Please take a look at his other videos on YouTube. **LINK** Imaginate, way back home and inspired bicycles are my favourites Shaunie.
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    Edge 540:- Fuselage, check. Two wings, check. Wing joiner, check. Transmitter, check. Flight box, check. Glow stick, check. Retaining bolts, check. At the field:- Build plane, no worries. Fuel plane, no worries. Check radio, no worries. Fit canopy, where's the canopy? Oh d*mn, fly the J!ve then! Shaunie.
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    Treat yourself, you know you are worth it! Like that handbag of hers that just mysteriously "appeared", "Oh that, I've had it for ages"! Shaunie. Edited By Shaunie on 05/10/2016 09:05:38
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    Posted by Peter Miller on 05/10/2016 08:33:52: Posted by Tom Sharp 2 on 05/10/2016 00:22:09: You can halve your problem by immediately by fitting only one aileron. I am puzzled by your answer Tom I had a control horn break on my Oodalally and the model was almost uncontrolable because the drag ofthe down going aileron turned it away from the turn direction so applying right aileron made the model bank right but turn left. Common practice in pylon racing circles I believe Peter. Slippery wing sections and small deflections probably help with adverse yaw problems. I've just built an Equaliser E2K (from Gavin Barden at Evolution Models). Which will also fly incredibly slowly but With no rudder suffers from adverse yaw at very low speeds, luckily it has two ailerons so I've added some aileron differential. Conventional centreline hinges though so I can't help there. Shaunie.
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    Just one little thing I'd like to add and this is for crimping in general, not just servo leads:- If the wire's cross sectional area is too small for the crimp do not be tempted to double the stripped portion back over the insulation and then crimp that in the connection portion. This is bad practice for several reasons; 1. The contact area is reduced (obvious really). 2. If the wire warms up or as time passes the plastic will migrate and what little pressure you had holding the connection together will cease. 3. And this is the most important, as you crimp the wire the plastic extrudes out of the ends of the crimp which stretches the copper inside it until it breaks. You have what looks like an acceptable crimp except if the wire is not broken immediately it will fail in service shortly after with obvious consequences. It is perfectly acceptable however to double the copper over in the crimp, that's fine. I was involved in a fairly lengthy failure analysis program many years ago, where I found that one wireman building looms was doing this and it gave us no end of problems, particularly working out what machines his production had gone into! If you wish to be picky try not to touch the stripped copper before crimping as oils from your skin can upset crimp joints too. The MIL spec method of twisting the copper without touching it is to partially strip an overlong wire, twist by the insulation and then cut to length afterwards. Shaunie.
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    It all depends on which direction you need to master and slave of course! If the OPs Tx is to be slave to his tutors Tx and aircraft then the original set up would not have worked. The one problem I have always had is if the student has his own aircraft and Tx you cannot buddy a tutors Tx to it. The student needs to get used to the feel of his Tx so his aircraft needs to bound to the tutors Tx with the student Tx cabled to it. A sort of "reverse buddy system" would be useful. Shaunie.
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    Do not add acid unless it has been spilled. When a battery dries out only water leaves the cell, replenish with DI water only. Lead acids are a topic all on their own. Visit battery university for loads of useful info. Basically, do not run them too flat or for too long, when recovering them keep the current low until fully charged or at least until they have trickled for some time and check the voltage, 14V for regular types, 14.5 for Calcium. The longer they are flat the more permanent the damage. Shaunie. Edited By Shaunie on 20/09/2016 23:31:35
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    When funds allow I might buy a second one, so I can have two different temperatures, one for tacking, the other for shrinking. Just used Oracover for the first time, my word that can take some heat! Had a wingtip that wouldn't behave, ended up at about 190 degC, it went where I wanted it in the end! Apparently it'll take 200 degC. Shaunie.
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    I forgot to say, I love mine. If you keep fiddling with the controls you are not allowing it to do its job, you are fighting it and it is fighting you. (bit like her indoors when you are trying to drive . Shaunie.
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    The instructions are on the box on mine. Switch it on with the on/off button. Set the temperature using the up and down buttons. Wait for the temperature to settle. It's a PID controller and has a little overshoot. It will go slightly too high and then come back down to the set temperature. When you change the temperature it will overshoot less than when warming from cold. The problem is that with a display you can see what is happening and worry about it. With an analogue thermostat the problem is worse, you just don't know about it. Its a fact of life that it's possible to machine something to size tolerances of microns fairly easily, to control its temperature to within a couple of degrees is quite hard. Take it from me, I used to work with injection moulding tools that had eight control zones to control a mould tool about 600mm by 300mm. Shaunie.
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    Hi FB3, Evolution Models Fusion. Gavin Barden who designed and sells them and I are in the same club, so it was rude not to build one. It's bare white on top as I haven't printed the graphics up for the top yet. Covering with checks is fun but came out spot on I think. Overlander 3548 motor, corona CS238MG servos. They go well on 3S, climb like homesick angels on 4S. Shaunie.
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    Really hard to post photos from iPhone!
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    Nearly ready, just a little fettling to do .
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