Marc Osbourne

Yes please!

Glider Guider, our local (ish) model shop, pegasus models, has a large stock of both aircraft and accessories, they also do mail order. Not sure what takes your fancy but you could always look at their site, if any questions about anthing, they are only a phone call away and very helpful. www.pegasusmodels.co.uk

Hi guys, apologies for the delay in getting a report on the heater, it took some weeks after my previous message on this forum before we actually got the heaters (shipping, customs, bla bla bla). Anyhow, I am happy to report, that the heater, although arriving a bit battered, was strainghtened out and has done quite a number of hours service without any problems. We have since ordered another for a friend, of which, he too, has found that it provides a great quantity of heat for very little in running costs! It has been relatively easy to use, does not burn through much fuel and spares (when required) do not appear to cost very much, i will be purchasing over the summer, before the heater will be required again, probably a spare fuel pump and glow plug assembly, just in case either is required upon reinstatement of the heaters!

Hi Martin, we are still waiting for ours to arrive, I ordered two heaters, one for grumps, (my father) and one for myself. I also ordered two of those mufflers as linked to by Gary, it seems they have run out of UK stock now as they had 3 left in stock yesterday and none today! I too will be reporting back on how good these heaters are, it seems that a friend of ours is now interested in one now that my dad has told him about it! This link is to the heater which I have bought: https://www.banggood.com/12V-5KW-Diesel-Air-Heater-4-Holes-All-In-1-LCD-Thermostat-for-Trailer-Truck-Car-p-1368620.html?p=6J161816237002201711&custlinkid=117256 I know theyre on ebay, but they seem to all come from china anyway!

Gary, Peter, thanks! They were very similar to what I was looking at, I will get one ordered!

Hi guys, we have got one of the 5kw heaters coming for our own workshop, what is everyone using as a 12v power supply other than a 12v battery of course, any ideas for a 240v to 12v transformer etc that could be used instead?

Did you ever get this pitts finished Pyro?

Did you ever get this running??

Voted for my fixed wing 'B' on this, really need to get it done this year. Gary rawlings and another examiner did my test back in about 2001 but despite my many phone calls at the time after i waited over a month, gary never sent off my paperwork and so i never got my 'b' certificate! Due to life I came out of r/c flying from between about 2002-2012 so hopefully this year if i can, I will get the opportunity to do it at some point! Edited By Marc Osbourne on 13/01/2016 00:57:01

Good evening all. I am looking for either an ARTF JP (or similar) 97" span gee bee model y senior sportster OR, plans of the model Y of around the 90-100" span size. Not afraid to build if the right plans come up! Thanks, Marc

Hi, Thanks guys, I did think that maybe it may be a duff one, I do seem to be a Lemon magnet I'm afraid, what with a out of the box duff Hitec 5085mg and two duff 7955tg's out of the box I am beginning to wonder about the quality of hitec servos! Wonder if the standard savox ones are any good? I wouldnt mind but i used to use futaba 148's and 3001's many moons ago and didnt have a problem with them but the modern ones seem to be varying quality all the time, or maybe its just me getting older and wiser!? Marc

Hello all, Just curious to know on here if anyone else has had a standard hitec hs-311 servo fail on them? I have bought about 30 of these as a standard servo to use in several models and the latest model i have equiped with these is a 80" piper cub with an SC 52FS in the front (not exactly a rocket ship). Anyhow, fitted one of these servos to each of the aileron servos and after just half an hours use the servo had stopped in the centre (half way through a flight!) and didnt move under power! The servo moves fine when moved by hand but not anything else! Tried disconnecting the extention lead for it... still nothing, then tried it on my hitec servo tester... and once again, absolutely nothing, no noise, no movement, no nothing! We are not exactly inexperienced in model aircraft and the servo should easily be rated for the job, its just running off of a standard 6v battery pack and the aileron itself moves freely and there is no binding of any kind. I just thought it was strange for a 30 minute old servo to do this? If anyone else has had problems with these servos i would rather know know as next time, if the servo is on an elevator or rudder etc the outcome could be far worse! Thanks, Marc

Hiya, Thanks for that but i think thats the 59" version and not the 72". Marc

Evening all, Just finished overhauling a used 72" Cap 21. Does anybody have the centre of gravity measurements of either this, the model tech cap 21 or the great planes version of the same or similar size? This just gives me a rough idea of where to start! Thanks, Marc

Still no one with an available manual I could use? 😯