Steve_Wright

Well I had enough of my stuff being outside so it has all just gone in the garage. 1200 litres of cider storage (1/2 full) and a 1mx1mx2.4m cider press soon eats up space. Press will go down to my container in a few weeks. Just waiting on the sparky (still!!) and the fabricator to to my bench frame. Still need to re varnish the side door, just too cold at the minute, would like to at least get the frame shut varnished then I can fit the draught seals

blizzard turned to blue skies in 10 minutes, since then had rain & now getting heavy hail. Waiting for the predicted frogs now

well a blizzard just started here! never trust a weather forcast

Just looked & could be clear, cold & 9mph wind. That or 6ft of drifting snow & a blizzard, we shall see. Ever an optomist I will make sure everything is charged up

Came up in conversation with someone today, seems a good friend of the chap I was chatting with owns the farm a few hundred metres down the road & he is happy for me to fly electric there Keeps sheep so nicely mowed grass, just need to watch for the sheep eggs. Whats the chances every weekend for the next month or so are going to be windy! 5 minute walk to a flying field rather than a 15minute drive, happy days

My concern now is curing time. specs are 24h for hardening good enough to walk on, 7 days for full cure. Went on it last night and there was still a few areas that were slightly tacky (curing not helped by temperature at the moment) Will have the heater on in there all day today and may move in some of the static items like shelves and my desk. Currently everything is outside under a tarp which is not good Jeep is going to stay outside for another week. Edited By Steve_Wright on 15/01/2015 10:46:20

Lots of shelves and hanging stuff for the planes, still working it out myself!

Posted by Luther Oswalt on 13/01/2015 20:43:21: Are you going to put the electrical wiring in thin wall conduit? Be sure to put lots and lots of receptacles, then add a couple more! Leo Have a big reel of clear pvc coated silver armoured 3 core cable I plan to use, with lots of wall sockets +1 Edited By Steve_Wright on 13/01/2015 21:28:47

Posted by cymaz on 13/01/2015 20:37:51: With such a lovely workshop, should we not expect top notch builds....yes? errm I can knock together a good artf kit

need to give it 2 days drying time now, will be touch dry tomorrow so I can get the heater back in & warm it up to speed the job up a bit, full cure takes 7 days but will take foot traffic after 2. Will have to be really careful putting my shelves back in. Fabricator chap is coming over next week to do the steel frame along the right side so I can build my workbench up Just waiting for the sparky....still.....

2 coats of epoxy paint later.... Will tidy up the line between the wall paint / epoxy with white paint, the epoxy has a 30min work time so easier to be less accurate with that and tidy up with normal paint once it has cured BTW, got the stuff from TA Paints in Wolves, very good product to put down, luckily 5 litres does 1 coat & they sell in multiples of 5litres

Video/photo evidence first, they I would mull over sending to police or go and speak to neighbours. From my POV I had next doors sprog drive his dads car through the fence into the back of my shed years ago, you couldn't see it until you went into the shed so went un noticed for a few days. Wifey convinced me to talk to neighbours rather than phone police (did around £1000 worth of damage) so foolishly did. Mother was terribly appologetic up to the point I gave them the bill. Flat refused to pay and haven't spoke to me for 8 years. (wifey wouldn't let me go through small claims court, I really wished I did)

I have managed to kill a DX-6 Tx and 4 battery packs for my twin star by driving home with them on the car roof

Depends what u drive off, glide slope isnt so great though

cider production is taking up 1 side of the workshop, R/C the other (have to squeeze a Jeep into the middle too). Will have the rest of the fleet mounted up when the blacksmith has finished making my brackets (using 1" bar folded into a U shape that screw to the trusses, planes just sit into them)

Wifey got me a new R/C toy for xmas that doesn't go in the sky, and it is rather good Axial G6 Wrangler Never done scale rock crawling before, only 1:1 stuff, getting hooked on it, it is a bit easier on the wallet than the full size stuff. My R/C Jeep has a working winch, my full size Jeep doesn't LOL #3 sproggo got a fast 1/10th buggy for xmas, so he races around the local park while I play on the hills where they built the new slides

Oh and it took 99litres of masonary paint to get an acceptable finish on the blocks, not perfect but had enough of chucking paint on the walls now

First model in the new hangar, still need to paint the floor but its too cold at the mo Storage in too

Stainless steel brick ties, difficult to see in the photos. Insulated the roof last night, will give the walls another coat then just the floor to paint. Still waiting for the sparky to turn up

First coat of paint done inside, fresh blockwork is like a sponge, 30 litres of masonary paint used. Hopefully a bit less on the second coat! Edited By Steve_Wright on 14/12/2014 17:20:51

front roller shutter door now finished, floor chap is coming tuesday to level/seal it, then epoxy painting it week before xmas. Walls are getting painted this weekend if lazy offspring #1 gets out of bed . Kingspan for the roof comes next week too, sods law the spacings between the trusses are 50cm and the kingspan comes in 120cm widths, going to have a lot off offcuts, may stick it in the attic as extra insulation. Can move my planes in once the kingspan is fitted

Roof is complete, glass in the windows & frames sealed. Side door frame going in after the F1, front door wont be here for 2 weeks so made a door from plastic sheet LOL Steam cleaned the floor and walls today, hope to put the self leveler down next week.

Roof nearly complete, short of 20 tiles, will get finished tomorrow morning. Jeep has a home now Edited By Steve_Wright on 19/11/2014 17:15:49

Posted by Allan Bennett on 18/11/2014 20:09:27: That looks to me like it should do the job, with 600 watts potentially available with a 4S LiPo. If you scroll down in your LINK, you'll see in the reviews that someone tried a 13x6 prop and got only 400 watts at 28 amps, so I would suggest at least a 14x7 for starters, to try and get close to the motor's continuous rating of 40A. I find that WebOCalc is a very simple program for predicting motor amps, watts, and general performance. Click on the "Software" tab at the left. But, whatever advice and information you use, always check your actual amps at full throttle with a wattmeter because each motor and prop may be slightly different. Thanks for that link. So in my TravelAir on a 12x10 should pull 38Amps. How close should you aim to the motors peak amps?

Thats always going to be the case with any aircraft. I am not ditching my current stuff. Future ones will be aimed at electric