EvilC57

It’s sometimes worth getting a second opinion on whether a tyre can be repaired. I had a screw in a tyre fairly near to the side of the tread a few years ago. I took the car to a local tyre dealer, where the chap said “Ooh no mate, too near the side wall. We’ll order you a new tyre, that’ll be £130 please.”. However I did some research, and it seems British Standard BS AU159 specifies how near to the edge you can go, and a chart is available to download and print. Armed with this chart in case I needed it, I went to another tyre place I know, where the chap looked at the tyre and said “Yes mate, we can repair that, that’ll be £15 please.”. £115 saved, and I drove around on the tyre for several years afterwards with no problem. (Internet photo)

Couldn’t get in at all yesterday evening. Using Chrome on an iPad.

Probably worth checking the channel monitor on the NX8 as well, to check the Tx is actually opening the throttle as far as the Tx itself is concerned too.

Just my opinion, but there’s nothing more boring than watching video of a model (even one of my own models) just going around and around doing circuits. Half the time, due to the wide angle of the lenses used or autofocus hunting, when played back they just look like a little out of focus dot going around the sky.

I use a Mobius Maxi 4K Action Camera. Either Velcro’d to the peak of my hat, or mounted on the model. Much smaller and lighter than a GoPro.

I have printed a couple of Planeprint’s models with ColorFabb LW-PLA. After the first one broke apart spectacularly in an area of high stress, I’ve learned that you need to reinforce any potential high stress areas with longitudinal strips (5mm x 1mm) of carbon fibre. I’ve not had any problems printing LW-PLA with my Ender 3 V2, as long as you follow Planeprint’s instructions to set up the correct profiles in Cura.

You need to speak to John Norris on 01992-558226 at Logic RC.

I know the feeling!

Never been sure what Jay Blades actually does in the Repair Shop.

Just bought this parrot from some German bloke. I think it might have some right wing tendencies! c68ada2b-73c0-4e30-a361-920ce7131e68.mp4

Doubt he’d have heard it coming due to the racket he was making himself at the time 🔊🔊 🎶🎵🙉.

That actually happened to my grandmother’s dog. In the early 1960s we lived in a house with a railway cutting at the end of our garden. One Christmas, my grandmother came to stay with us, complete with her dog Laddie who was nearly blind. On Boxing Day morning the dog disappeared, and my father thought to himself ‘I bet that old dog has gone through the fence and blundered over the edge of the cutting’. So he went to investigate, and sure enough, found the dog dead and frozen stiff at the bottom of the 60 foot cliff. Having returned home to pick up his wheelbarrow, he proceeded to wheel the deceased dog back along the side of the track (while wondering what he was going to tell my grandmother), when he came across a railway fireman stoking up a shunting engine, getting it ready to go. “What you got there?”, calls down the stoker. “My mother-in-law’s dog.”, says my dad. “Want him cremated?”, says the stoker. So poor old Laddie went in the fire, and with a puff of white smoke he was gone! I seem to remember my father saying that rather than tell my grandmother what really happened, he just said he couldn’t find the poor old dog.

Ofcom have already done it in their ‘Offensive Language Quick Reference Guide’. I won’t link it directly here, ‘cos we’re not supposed to. Makes interesting reading though 😱🤐🤫!

Dare we risk watching it 😶!

I watched the episode on iPlayer as a result of this thread, let’s just say I won’t be watching any more! With regard to the Reliants, my mother had a pale blue ‘Trotter’ type Reliant Robin van in the 1970s, which (as I think I recall) had a lower rate of road tax than the equivalent car. So my father did a mod which I believe was common then, of cutting holes in the side panels and fitting the flat rear windows from a couple of scrapped Ford Anglias, along with a modified back seat from the same - although others may correct me on the source of the bits. I believe he also mentioned bolting some lumps of pig iron underneath to give it some ‘weight’, and stop it jumping around so much on the road. I certainly remember it being a very bumpy ride as the centre front wheel caught every manhole cover etc. which would go between the wheels of a four wheeled car. I also learned to drive on it when I was 17!

This beer is giving me a sense of déjà vu!

There have been a number of videos shown on the news over recent years, of people (subsequently prosecuted) filming themselves driving at 130mph+ on a motorway, and posting the evidence on ‘social media’. Can’t fix stupid I guess.

Me too.

“He used binoculars to watch the drone and thought this was acceptable because it was in his line of sight.” He doesn’t sound bright enough or knowledgeable enough to have been using FPV equipment.

Has anyone here successfully used one of the iRangeX IRX4 or 4+ multi-protocol modules with a Boldclash BWhoop B03 Bayang protocol drone? I recently bought an IRX4+ module to use with my old JR PCM9X PPM transmitter (see my original thread here). Having climbed the steep learning curve required to install USB drivers, update the bootloader and install the relevant PPM .bin file, I managed to bind it with a Spektrum DSM/DSMX receiver OK, but cannot get it to bind with my B03 drone - which is the real reason I bought it. The IRX has Bayang - BAYANG / H8S3D / X16_AH / IRDRONE sub-protocols available on 4 different switch settings, but the B03 won't bind with any of them despite it binding OK with my little Jumper T8SG Tx in <BAYANG> mode. The Jumper has the channel order AETR rather than TAER, and it has been suggested that this may be the issue, however (with the relevant PPM .bin file loaded) I have tried both, but to no avail.

Toolstation 20g cyano for me. I stick (no pun intended) with the 20g bottles, because the 50g ones tend to go off before I can get half way through them - or the spout becomes too manky and clogged up over time.