Tim Kearsley

Got you. I seem to remember from reading about it a while ago that it uses compressed air "rockets" to achieve that sort of acceleration as it's pretty nigh impossible to achieve sufficient traction from tyres to do it. I have to ask "Why?". My car is listed as doing 0 - 60 in 3.2sec and, frankly, it isn't a particularly comfortable experience. Doing it in less than a second - no thanks! But there will always be the wealthy who just look at the numbers and have to have the best, fastest, longest etc, etc....

The other thing about the Roadster is that Elon has been promising it for years and it never seems to quite get to fruition. Since owning a Tesla, and subscribing to the Tesla Motor Club forum I've learned that there is a phenomenon generally known as "Elon time". This seems to run at a much different rate to the time experienced by us lesser mortals. He was quoted in 2019, I think it was, that Tesla cars would be fully self-driving within a year. Here we are five years later and he's being sued by UK buyers who shelled out another £6,800 on top of an already pricey car for "full self-drive" capability. What FSD, in this country, actually achieves is no more than automatic lane-keeping, lane changing and a few other bits and pieces, none of which are reliable or work well. I bought my car because I like driving, so the FSD side is of zero interest, but I'd be very peeved to have paid nearly 7 grand for not very much at all!

I'm intrigued where you get the "0 to 60 in under a second" from. When I open the link you posted it says 0 - 60 in 1.9sec?

Good to meet you on here Dave. Your articles are always interesting and humorous!

A quick question - where are you Revolver builders installing the Rx? I'm getting the impression that the LiPo needs to be well forward into the nose, for balance reasons.

What a very good idea - why didn't I think of that?! Thanks Richard, that's what I'll do. 😀

Thanks Richard. The only possible reason for this that I can think of is that the dimensions of the M2 balsa component in the Sarik kit are incorrect. I guess I can cut two new M1 liteply side panels and a new, correctly sized M2 balsa piece, to suit a 6 X 13 mm mast.

Thanks Richard. I don't understand it. The M former components are laser-cut so there shouldn't be any error there and my assembly looks like yours but the mast slot is 6 X 9 mm (1/4" × 3/8"). I don't know where to go from here.

Hi, I don't know if any Revolver builders can advise, but I seem to have gone wrong somewhere at an early stage! I'm building from the Sarik short kit. I've constructed the formers F5, F6 and M1 but when I put them together in the "H" structure I'm left with a rectangular slot for the mast which is a lovely interference fit for 6 X 9mm spruce but not 6 X 13 as required! I'm at a loss to see where I've gone wrong. The components are laser-cut so presumably the dimensions there are all OK. The rear edge of the M2 balsa "filling" in the M1/M2 "sandwich" is aligned with the rear edges of the M1 sides. See photo taken from the top of the "H". Any ideas?

They do in the short kits.

Thanks Andy. Sarik acknowledged that they had omitted the additional wood pack and shipped it out to me the next day.

Did anyone else use Corona CS238MG servos for the Revolver and find that the rudder servo is a very tight fit?

"Generally SARIK hobbies include the magazine article with a purchased plan." It may have been an accidental omission but there was no magazine article included in the Revolver II short kit I just bought from Sarik.

To answer the question in your original post Louis, the mast and tail boom are designed to be removable.

You can also find lots of useful stuff in the thread here.

As I said in the previous post it would be worth your while getting hold of the May and June 2019 copies of RCM&E. I got mine as digital copies from Pocketmags. In those issues, Richard Harris, the designer, describes the build and the trimming and setup - vital info.

I think it's the second law of thermodynamics you're thinking of Erf. The first law concerns itself with the conservation of energy and the third with the entropy of a system as it approaches absolute zero. I don't think the laws of thermodynamics are attributable to Newton. And what all this has to do with electric cars I'm no longer sure!

Louis, I've just started a Revolver II build also. The build was well documented in the May and June 2019 RCM&E.

Thank you chaps. I'll wait for a response from Sarik.

It was the short kit.

I've just this afternoon received the above mentioned short kit from Sarik. It contains three plan sheets, the vac-formed canopy and a laser-cut wood pack. Should there not be an additional wood pack of strip wood etc? I've contacted Sarik, but no response yet.

Slightly different one here: My bank called me this morning warning me of a 22p transaction on my debit card from an outfit calling themselves Jet Frog. No money lost but the hassle of a new card coming in the post. As others have said, the small transactions are "testing the water". If the small transaction succeeds it is followed by much larger transactions. Scum bags!

@GrumpyGnome it sounds like you are one of the few who has an open mind and looks at the pros and cons without prejudice. All the points you make are valid and EV ownership wouldn't be very suitable for you.

I've come to the conclusion that the pro/anti electric car "debate" is very analogous to politics, in that people, in general, are polarised one way or the other. Both sides are firmly entrenched in their views and actively seek out stories or propaganda to support those views. For my part, I hadn't considered EVs until 2018, when my partner bought a BMW i3. The first time I drove it I was genuinely staggered by the acceleration and ease of driving. No gear changes, never stalling etc, etc. It was 2020 before I bought my own EV and there is no way I would ever go back to petrol or diesel now. I completely accept the downsides of EV ownership, the main one being the need to plan longer journeys to include a charge break. For me, having access to the Tesla supercharger network makes that slightly easier. Overall though, for my situation, the pros considerably outweigh the cons. Fuel cost of about 2.5p/mile for 99% of my driving, almost zero servicing cost plus unbelievable, IC-killing performance clinch the deal.

Quote from an online article by Autocar: "Another study by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency also revealed that petrol and diesel cars caught fire 19 times more often than EVs." The article can be read here.