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I fix them in with a couple of beads of hot melt glue on foamies. Then with my small heat gun set to 100°C, I can easily remove them without damaging either the foam or servo.

I am, after nearly 3 years. Although I must admit I’m just looking for an excuse to change my Ender 3 V2 for a Bambu P1S!

If you’re referring to the silicone rubber spring substitutes Richard, yes they did improve things, but the bed still drifts around sometimes. I’m just careful to do a manual levelling exercise before I start a print run.

I found Tinkercad to be a good place to start in 3D CAD to produce .STL files for slicing & printing. I graduated to the free version of Fusion 360 after a while, but I’ve found that to be a much steeper learning curve.

These days I follow Martin Lewis and Which Magazine’s suggestions of getting on the insurance comparison websites and renewing 23 days before it’s due. Their analysis has shown this to be the cheapest time, and those who wait right until the latest possible moment to renew pay more. The insurance with LV on Mrs E’s Mini is due in early January. I had the renewal quote through from LV a few weeks ago, got on the comparison sites, and saved £30 on the original quote by just renewing with the same company 23 days before it’s due.

Or even a backing singer 😀!

Sounds like a phased array antenna. More commonly used to electronically steer a radar beam in systems where the scanner remains static, and only the beam moves. But working in reverse here to electronically steer the sensitivity of the receiving antenna. Think RAF Fylingdales

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Footballs! The 7 year old next door had an obsession with kicking and throwing balls around in the neighbour’s back garden. Tennis balls, netball balls and worst of all footballs, which would come sailing over our fence without warning. The day I had the wings from my large IC twin laying on the ground when a football came flying over and landed about a yard away, I quickly learned never to have any models in the garden if the young lad was around. This all came to a head in the summer this year, when one of his footballs came over with some force, and broke a window in my modelling shed/workshop. At this point I’d had enough of the balls causing damage to my plants and other property, and went around and had a ‘conversation’ with the boy’s father. He has paid up for the window, which I had to take time out to buy new glass for, and fit. And there have been promises it won’t happen again - but we’ll see next summer… Also: Dogs! I was landing my Multiplex Extra 330SC when I realised that a large black Labrador type dog on the loose was looking up at it, and pursuing it down the approach path (there is a public footpath at the end of our patch). Being concerned as to what the dog might do if it caught up with the model on the ground, I went around, and shouted out for someone to restrain the dog. I had to land as my timer had sounded, so my battery wouldn’t last much longer. Someone eventually caught the dog, and having been somewhat unnerved I continued to a bit of a shaky landing.

You can’t fix stupid.

The largest increase I had recently was for buildings & contents insurance. They wanted to put it up by a factor of around 2.5x over what I paid last year. Needless to say, I moved! So much for customer loyalty discounts these days.

With all the fuss that some seem to make over club, BMFA & CAA fees, a number in our club seem to take the opposite view. By which I mean that we have a surprisingly large number of paid up members who never fly, but seem to want to remain members just in case one day they get the opportunity to actually get to the field.

You said the word in your OP Neddy, ‘practice’. Practice, practice, practice. Get as much stick time as you can, and gradually it’ll become second nature, like riding a bike or driving a car. It took me two and a half years before I was up to getting my BMFA ‘A’ certificate. Others get it after a few weeks of flying, and others take years & years.

Some of my favourite TV watching these days is the ‘Look at Life’ series of short films made by Rank between the late 1950s and late 1960s, and shown regularly on Talking Pictures TV. Surprising (by today’s standards) how well dressed people were, and how slim they looked.