Martin McIntosh

I have done a couple of tiled plan resizes (during covid lockdowns) but it is a real pain. Much easier to get your local print shop to do it now; it does not cost a lot and will be on quality paper.

Had a look at the above link and it would seem that we all encountered the R2/R6 problem. The only pic I could find showing packing had 3x 3mm pieces of lite ply, presumably at around that point.

Just as Andy says, but I was not to know that at the time and brushed it on neat. Only tried it because there were concave parts.

The need for these depends on the circumstances. Some of my motors use crankcase pressure but none of these need clips. Others, Lasers in particular, have very short carb. nipples so I always fit the appropriate size of spring clip from Rapid R/C.

Whatever you do, do not touch Covergrip. Tried it on my TN Concorde because of the intricate shapes and it virtually ruined the finish.

Just tried to send a very long reply on this topic but despite being signed in it refused to send so shall start my own blog when appropriate.

I can only quote the way I have set mine up, it depends on whether you prefer nasty twitchy or nice and smooth. A club mate bought a reasonably fancy Spekky set but has never used rates or expo! `Don`t like expo, never tried it`. Here we go- lo hi expo ele up 10mm dn15 up 15 dn18 lo 30 hi 40 rud 30 40 30 40 ail 9 5 12 7 40 55 Hope that makes sense. Your Jeti gear should easily cope with it.

Very neat build and a fantastic colour scheme. I am sure that this will soon become your favourite `go to` model. Well done.

Gsky, You are very brave attempting this considering that it is only the second ever and an expensive model if it does not work out. I have been at it for 63 years now and this caused me problems, some due to trying previously untested materials. Search as I may I cannot now find my original build blog for this but the pics should still be on an old laptop. Good luck.

Did this work Craig? You never did tell me. Spoke to TN but he could not remember which fans he fitted but I would swear that they were the same as the 3s ones I have. He suggested to try 4s on them because the long wiring would reduce the voltage, but would need to greatly increase the battery hatch size. For various reasons I have never got round to doing it.

It depends on whether you are using an i/c or electric prop. APC electric extend behind where a spinner backplate would be, i.e., behind the prop driver, so beware. As above, if the gap is too small you can space out the engine mount and too large could look ugly depending on the type of model. Many require down and side thrust which needs to be taken into consideration. On my scale models I spend a lot of time measuring how much off centre the mount should be for say 2 deg side and down thrust to end up with the shaft in the centre of the cowl. Don`t always get it right!

In the same vein, I was once about to start my OS 91FX which is normally a pussy cat to operate. As usual, I primed it, connected the glow and with the prop firmly grasped checked for the usual bump to confirm the prime which it did. I felt nothing but looking down saw that the end of my thumb was nearly severed off! When I was a kid I saw someone lose all of the skin from the palm of his hand. The culprit? A mere Mills 0.75.

My first Laser was a 180 I think. On the test stand and primed as per instructions I gave it a flick, not expecting it to even fire. Ouch! I could not even dare to look at my hand for a while to see if there were any fingers left on it. Never again, starter always.

Somewhere one this forum I posted how to change one of these from the supplied heli mode to fixed wing, but blowed if I know where it was, maybe on Martin`s Hawk. Just google them and everything should become clear. It is difficult to get things very wrong.

Just looked at this thread and have not read all of it, but may I add my experience with one of these? Bought one many years ago because the Lanc is my favourite aeroplane, in fact I built the TN 11 ft one. As it came, the battery pack had been moved to the rear for some obscure reason but by cutting out some material at the wing centre it could be moved to the front to get the cg correct. I replaced the tail end linkages, got rid of the steerable tail wheel and put a micro servo in the rear, linked by carbon rods to now functional rudders. With a considerable amount of coupled aileron and rudder it flies just fine. A mate had one also and added flaps fixed down at 20-30 deg. but I have not tried that.

I have recently been looking at various super models and full size disasters on you tube. Many of these featured adverts for a drone with control by phone, hi res camera with recording, hovering over a spot, flying to a distant destination and auto return to home etc, all for £85. If it were not for the fact that I can no longer fly one from my club field I would be very tempted, as would many viewers who would never have heard of article this, that or the other so we are on a hiding to nothing here. Nothing whatsoever stopping anyone from buying one.

I assume that you mean the No. of models in the air at a given time. Since it has not as yet been beaten then why bother since I doubt if there would be much support. Forgive me if you are referring to other record attempts.

P De T, that spinner looks like a pressed out Traplet one similar to one I fitted to a Laser 180 powered Spit. On an early attempt at a flight the starter broke it up. Luckily I was not standing in front at the time it flew off in jagged pieces.

Just watched the informative video which should be shown to our CAA before they come up with some more crazy ideas. Our landlord must have been reading the Daily Mail too since he banned any form of multirotors including the tiny Ladybird and 250mm racers which some of us flew. A bit peeved because I had recently spent a considerable amount of money on some machines and a V3 viewer. Back to the OP. A club I was in years ago invited a shooting club to have a go at a small foamie model. After 2000 shotgun rounds it only came down when the Rx aerial was severed. Peppered in lead shot.

Nik, surely that is the same as any single motor model running from one Lipo? Plenty of power left for the Rx and servos if the motor stops.

Tony, your diagram does not show all four signal wires going into the Rx via the four way connector. Correctly wired, only one battery should be powering the Rx and servos. I have a TN Vulcan and wired it bat. 1, one inner and the other outer and vice versa for bat. 2 to keep the wiring similar. The Rx should easily operate four ESC`s, not always the case with some of the later HK MCR series retracts which need a 5V signal, not 3V which some ( Orange ) Rx`s do not do.

You should have disconnected the positive (red) from three of the four ESC`s, not the signal which they need, otherwise they will have no input and you will be powering the Rx four times over which is a no-no. The ESC leads need to go into a four into one connector which then goes to the throttle channel.

I too use some of those HK metal trunion ones as shown in the video. They are already quite slow but a word of warning. The mounting plates are very brittle so I make up further ones from GRP and fit these over the top because they will soon break otherwise.

I suggested to my doctor that I was considering going private because the pain was getting just too much, but he told me not to bother. Things then actually got going quite quickly with the NHS and the surgeon removed a vertebra, ground it down to relieve pressure on the nerve then replaced it. If they had done the adjacent one at the same time then I think that I may have been cured by now. I was mobile straight away and could easily have driven myself home that day.

Ha Ha. I had my eyes lasered to give me long distance stereo vision 10 years or so ago. I am left eyed but they did not get that one quite right and kept saying that it would improve over time, which of course it did not. Still infinitely better than paying £500 every two years for glasses. Over the last six months or so I have to take tablets for a heart condition and supposedly to relieve pain in my spine which they don`t despite an operation. A side effect is that they affect my sight. They keep swapping from left to right eyed and I can now see closer and closer with my right but distance is now blurred so the opposite to when they were lasered. I can still fly OK but need help to carry stuff to the patch. Will just have to wait and see what happens.