Frank Skilbeck

Afraid not, if you've 18% oil in the fuel it's come out of the exhaust. I am running my OS 55 AX on around 12% oil so it's a bit cleaner, but still messy. Cracking engine though and fairly quiet with the supplied silencer.

So if you're going to electrify a DH Beaver, why not keep it scale.

While I tend not to use Y leads where possible, I do have several planes with a single aileron servo 😜

My choice would be a 4 cell sub C pack around 3300mah, it wouldn't even blink at the max load all the servos could pull, where as high capacity AA cells will see a voltage dip. Also check that the switch is in good condition and not an inline resistor.

Good to see you out and back in the air, probably some of the best therapy you can have. I had a much less severe TIA almost 20 years ago, I forced myself to do jigsaws left handed to retrain my left hand, I now use the rudder (Mode 2) more than many other clubmates!

What happens if you plug a regular servo into the retract channel, if the retract switch makes it go from end to end as the switch is moved, then it's not a transmitter programming issue. But what you might have done is set the end points to the same end, i.e. so a servo goes end-middle and back again rather than end to opposite end, hence reversing the servo direction makes it cycle from the opposite end. Plugging a servo in will let you see what the actual output is.

If it's too windy, go sloping, was up on the slope yesterday and a newbie was there with a stablised rudder elevator Radian, was a bit of a handfull in the wind, he actually managed better with my very old Wildthing delta, sometimes you can't beat the oldies. Been tutoring another flier with an old DB Mascot with an OS40, what a cracking trainer.

Tuesday and Friday, power flying at the club patch Wednesday - floatplane flying Slope session today Not a bad week.😀

It's a device that has one input but can set up and drive several servos, on the model it was used on there were 4 flap servos, only needed one tx channel and the 4 servos direction and travel/end points were set up on the matchbox. The Powerbox units can do the same.

Glad you've got it sorted. Having problems with a friends Saito 150, which keeps spitting props, new plug is the next stop.

Yep, basically to ship to the UK the goods must have either a sellers or purchasers VAT number on it. Overseas companies can register for VAT, for the big companies, Banggood, etc it's worth their while, for smaller companies it's not. If they set up an Ebay shop then Ebay would do the VAT, but also take a chunk of commission too.

Friend (no longer with us sadly) flew his 1/4 scale DH Vampire on a Dx8, he had to use a JR matchbox so he could couple and adjust some of the servos together.

The bearers do actually reach, it should have an engine mounting plate, but whoever built it just stuck some more wood on the inside of the bearers rather than make make up an engine plate.

Dan, the answer is yes they are worth something, just not a lot unfortunately. Friend just bought an unflown trainer (all servos and unused OS 40LA plus glow stick and fuel pump) for £80, seller added a couple more engines for an extra £10. You could contact your local model club, or Ebay is probably your best bet. Or list them on here.

Interestingly a broadband router uses around 5-10 watts, so for 24 hour back up you'd need a 240 w/hr battery, say a 12v 20ah battery. A mobile phone would operate on standby for longer than 24 hours and would only need a small powerbank to charge it up. So maybe the back up position is to provide those that need it a back up mobile phone and have the landline divert to that. BTW when we upgraded our broadband a couple of years ago we went to a digital landline, but it's so infrequently used we might as well disconnect it. The only time we had a power cut we called the power company on the mobile to find out when it was coming back. Don't think I've given anyone my home number in the last 10 years.