Fatscoleymo

If your car is on the drive at other times does it go off? Or only late at night?

I've been using canopy glue with Robart hinges for years - never had a problem. Much easier than epoxy. A quick rub with sandpaper before fitting. Edited By Fatscoleymo on 25/04/2020 07:51:51

Arming switch and kill switch. Use a kill switch on IC as well. fats

As KC suggests. I have used Hot Melt glue for decades now - never had one come loose. Don't even bother with the masking tape - just rough up the side of the servo. Easy to prise off if ever needing to change or use in another model. fats

John Stones - gawd bless you my son - you do talk a lot of common sense - which we need in bucket full's at the moment.

Posted by Richard Wills 2 on 23/11/2019 16:25:59: When I recovered my HK stick I left the glue on. Easiest and most secure covering job I ever did, film tacked to it and softened with the heat letting the film slide and shrink perfectly. Now you tell me!!!

Got it all done using Isopropanol - Isopropyl Alcohol. Mind-numbingly tedious. What worked for me was using cotton sheet offcuts (donated willingly by swimbo) - apply solvent to one cloth and rub a small area, then use another clean cloth to remove residue. Repeat at least twice for each area then move on. Change both cloths frequently as they both pick up glue and redistribute it...…. Then go back over everything, check and do 50% again.... Bert - It's no good leaving the residue on as it is too tacky to apply film over - the film would stick to areas in 'the middle' before it had been shrunk. Presently finishing off the addition of flaps, then will be ready to recover. Fats

As the title suggests. I have almost completed stripping back a HK Giant Stik that was covered in that self adhesive very brittle covering. Looked good but punctured extremely easily and had become 50% patches. I will recover in HK film which I am assured is good stuff.....but the adhesive residue left on all surfaces is very sticky. Can anybody offer any pointers as to what will best remove it?

Posted by Don Fry on 22/10/2019 19:38:41: A properly cycled NiCad lasts a very long time. And yours must be cycled, as you still fly them. If they work, they are good. But, if replacing them, LiFe are a good, solid, reliable battery. NiMh are a useless battery for our uses, made useful by bodges like Sub C cells , if you want power. Hard work to charge reliably, with a frisson of fear you messed up. Lost count of the times I've left a plane behind because the charger has cut out on a false peak. And that requires a brain cell to tell me how much it should need. I have one NiMh pack, in a plane under repair. It will see out the airframe, it's done as advertised. But if it failed a test, it's gone, and not replaced, like for like. b Beg to disagree Don...NIMH AA are all I use, just use a wall wart charger and never had a problem....all I do is check them the day before I am going to fly and top them up...easy peasey...

Lovely job Martyn....definitely going to finish mine this winter....

Posted by Nitro Flyer on 16/10/2019 14:58:16: what about the fact we are goverened by concent in uk,why dosent all model flyers withdraw their concent on this registration nonsence. and stop rolling over and accepting all that the theiving fraudulent lieing criminals in westminster are trying to do regarding registering of toy model aeroplanes quad copters ect,lawful notices of rejection should be sent to all the relevent parties that are trying to force this abomination on model flyers,the uk is fast sliping into a police state dictatorship, and our freedoms are being taken away on a daily basis once they are gone they are gone,once anyone registers anything your car,house,childeren,toy model plane you give ownership over to that third party,you are then only the registered keeper,thats how and why goverment can come and take (steal) your property because its no longer in the private, and you no longer own it even tho you think you do thats how it works,registration is only an offer of a contract you dont have to accept the offer and can decline it,our grand parents fought two world wars for our freedoms and you lot are just rolling over and takeing it JUST LIKE THE BMFA have done nothing for modelers, where is the challenge to goverment BMFA are also just takeing it,come on uk grow a back bone,,acts and statuates are not law and only have the colour of law through are concent, read our bill of rights 1888,,i will not be registering any of my models nor doing any online tests to comply with this fraud on the people,,, Wowser….you had a bad day?

Powerful engines, but they suffered from the coating on the liner 'de-laminating'. Worth pulling it apart to check. Fats

I've never had problem in 14 years leaving petrol in over the winter in both ride on and hand mowers - they start ok in the spring. But I have had a problem twice when the ride on was left with an empty tank and the feed hose dried out, cracked and had to be replaced. No other fuel related issues at all. Plenty of others though...

That Lee Richards design looks like the 'toilet seat' guitar that Ronnie Woods played on one of The Faces TOTP appearances....maybe Ronnie was an Aeromodeller?...….or....maybe Lee Richards was really Keith Richards and he loaned Ronnie his model?......it's late..I'll get my coat... Fats..

With a shot up rudder like that, the Fury might end up in a Pear Tree...very nice effort Ernie..