Keith Sharples

I have been using insulation tape from my local DIY store, they have it in white, black, red and green. I did wonder if it would stick, but it does!! in fact I have just had to take some back off whilst doing a repair on a foamy. It was reluctant to let go and it pulled the paint off. Edited By Keith Sharples on 23/07/2018 17:42:31

Not 100% sure of my clubs membership purely as I don't really meet many at the field. I do regularly meet one member there and we have great fun with a club type atmosphere all but between the two of us, he seems to think we have 7 members. When I joined I was asked to do one flight and passed as safe to fly (not an A test). Our field has 7 day, dawn till dusk access which is great. Initially when I went up there I sometimes could not fly as the grass was to long so went home annoyed. After this happened a few times I did complain and it improved a bit. It also turned out that another member was having the same problem so offered to cut the grass which they now do every Monday so now we have a great bowling green patch. It turns out this member is one who is now my flying buddy mentioned above. I did offer by email to the committee to also be a listed grass cutter and got no responce. The committee don't seem to fly or want to get a club thing going which is a bit sad really. Anyway the two of us enjoy getting together and having some fun, when it's not to hot that is!! Edited By Keith Sharples on 08/07/2018 16:23:12

Football, Football can't even escape it on an airfield at a model show, give me strength!

Traveling up from sunny South Wales for Saturday's show. Went last year which was a brilliant day so going again. Have a list of a few bits and pieces needed. Could we not do with a easy visable forumite badge/logo to acknowledge each other?

Hi Shaun. Try this link , 30mm extension leads from Dalewood models on Ebay used them loads of time they are very good.

Hi Hansie. Have a look at Hobby Kings ASW 28 V2, 2540 wing span. It comes complete just add battery and radio and off you go, Plastic fus and epo wings with lots of added strength spars £95 all in. Just bought one and it's brilliant. Edited By Keith Sharples on 16/05/2018 19:20:41

Hi Fly Boy3. I have set some of my IC planes for tick over with the stick fully back (as you stated) but I have adjusted the servo/pushrod travel to allow some back movement on the trim pot thus cutting the engine. You do have to remember to reset the trim pot back to centre for the next flight though. I have not tried it but I suspect that you can program a switch on flicking it to pull the throttle servo back a little more than the stick to kill the engine, much like the trim pot but at the flick of a switch. Others will hopefully advise on this as I would also be interested if it can be done to alter mine (I'm relatively new to all this programming of switches to do tasks) Hope it helps There you go beaten to it as I was typing   Edited By Keith Sharples on 25/04/2018 14:07:06

I'm retired so time not a problem, weather in South Wales the last 4-5 days perfect flying weather, my lovely understanding wife is happy with me flying when the weather is good. A perfect combination. The let down, I have a stinking cough and cold so house bound!!!!!!!!

Posted by Dai Fledermaus on 02/04/2018 17:21:33: The climate here in South East Wales seems to have morphed into three months of Winter and nine months of bad weather. 😋 That is very true Dai Fledermaus. I'm South East Wales as well. I keep weather watching, either to windy or to wet or both and when it's accceptable I cant get to the field. I have a DLG glider ordered ready for those calm warm summer evenings. A bit optimistic I think!

Hi Steve. Check this link on ebay a lovely DLG glider and a great price. I have messaged the seller as I wanted it and to see if they would post as I live to far away. But they won't post it, somewhat gutter!!!. If you live near it's deffo worth a look.

Posted by Percy Verance on 27/01/2018 09:38:04: I've never bought anything off ebay, and looking at some of the ebay postings on this thread, I now know I made the right decision........ Some of it looks to be just complete junk. Your so very wrong on that comment. On here you nearly always hear about problems with EBay, you very rarely hear about the good transactions of which there must be millions. I have used it loads of times with great success and got some great bargains. Know your product, know it's new cost, read the discription, look hard at the pictures, ask guestions about the item from the seller if needed, check the sellers feedback, have a max price you would spend and go for it. Ebay does work very well on the side of the buyer and will step in and help if required. It has happened to me only once and ebay sorted it and I had a full refund. If you do have problems only talk to the seller through the ebay message system that way there is a paper trail of who said what which Ebay look at and use to resolve problems. Edited By Keith Sharples on 30/03/2018 15:21:47

Hi David. You will find the plane great fun. I've had mine since December last year. Yes the flaps are on a Y lead. I dont dismantle mine at all it fits in the back of the car no problem. Two reasons for this, a bit lazy and the main reason, I have heard/seen on Utube and other forums where people have had trouble with the wing auto plug in electrical connections for the flaps and ailerons. So It stay assembled! I secured my battery in the gaping front cavity by using a strip of velcro stuck to the floor of the plane (in the right position with a battery to give CofG). And put the other half of the velcro on the batteries. I also hot glued a velcro strap thing (off the the shelf type or you could make one) at the front end of the battery for additional security. To get the battery always in the right position I put a black felt tip line on the plane floor just infront of the stuck down velcro. Pop the battery in line it up with the line push down for the velcro to grab strap up and off you go. WIth your different weight batteries you could have a few different line positions (each made after checking the CofG with each different battery). My ESC is again velcroed to the side wall of the same compartment giving no airflow restrictions. My receiver (6 channel Lemon) is in the rear compartment behind the wing. The maiden was totally event free it flew (as they say) straight out of the box. Very agile if required, also very docile at half throttle. Great undergear for rough terrain. Advise getting a spare carbon prop! The carbonfibre one is great but not forgiving if you have a hard landing. I have bought a plastic one but I will be replacing it with an original carbon fibre. Reason, at 50% throttle it flys arond nice and sedately, with the plastic one I feel to maintain the same flight speed I need 57% throttle. My interpretation of this is a heavier prop is needing more power to rotate to give a simular (to me) speed (I expect others will agree or disagree or come up with some over the head formula for the reason) anyway thats what I think! Enjoy and have fun with it but watch out for those barn door flats, even half way down the plane balloons, I have yet to get around to mixing some down elevator into the flap switch. All the best Keith Edited By Keith Sharples on 29/03/2018 17:53:58

Posted by MaL on 08/03/2018 13:06:46: Keith - if you look this particular item is advertised as only being available from the global site at the $2 price and the €12.57 price is the item from the global warehouse with free shipping so its not a moan about the cost of shipping it is a moan about changing the price between the offer and the actual....... Point taken, Sorry Mal.

It amazes me how people don't check things on the HK site. See an item listed as a big sale reduction, think "I'll have that" then moan about the postage from another part of the globe. After all they are a global company and some items sell better in some countries and not others so they have to shift stock and have a sale!! It doesn't mean to say that they are in your specific country at the sale price. I'm waiting for a HK plane to be in stock in the UK warehouse which is in the sale, I can get it from Hong Kong but after checking the postage It's more than the plane so I'll hope and wait. I fully expect when it gets to the UK it will be back up to the presale price.

BEB is totally correct. I can vouch for it. I have a Tundra and did exactly the same but realised that it didn't reverse the rotation. I had already stored in the grey matter after doing some research, about changing any two of the motors feed cables and it's sorted. The tundra flys like a dream by the way straight out the box. Happy flying

Here in South Wales, if it would stop snowing and the wind died down, I would put the skis on the Tundra and fly! Edited By Keith Sharples on 01/03/2018 15:24:29

Looks like they have a problem, just tried it and it won't load at all! Tried Sussex Model Shop and it was fine.

Great Cliff glad you got it sorted.

Point taken. I'm a belt and braces, try every angle kind of guy so would still try it ...........just in case! The "according to the Horizon website" I would rather confirm it!

Its looking good Mike, a new lease of life!

Agree with Phil 9, scrap it and fit a new one. The cost against the model in a black bag is a no brainer!

May be barking up the wrong tree but could you possibly borrow a DSM2 Spektrum transmitter to see if that will bind. Then that confirms your transmitter is probably a DSMX.

I made this one, the curved sides unbolt on one side, they are hinged and fold out, the tray comes off and then the main frame folds away for easy storage.

Hi Jeff. Welcome to the forum, a mind of info on here. Try Sarik Hobbies, link When Traplet stopped trading last year they bought all the plans etc, oodles on there plus other stuff. Others on here will probably come up with other outlets. I did much the same as you about a year back, I do wonder why I didn't do it earlier!! Enjoy being back with this fantastic hobby. Keith

Went today after about 4 months lay off. More or less zero wind, bright and not to cold. It was a maiden of a plane my lovely wife bought me for my birthday, as the club field can be a bit rough and grass a bit long sometimes which meant I couldn't fly some of my models. I I had my eye on the Durafly Tundra. Birthday Saturday there is was!!!. I'm normaly an IC, balsa and plan builder so this was something new. It is my first foamie, first tail dragger, first electric and .... the first maiden I have done of my own model (I get another club member to do it), so it was a bit of a nerve racking experience. I have to say it was brilliant, flew as straight as a die with NO flight trimming required at all. Excellent model very stable and I'm looking forward to lots of fun flights.