Mike T

Ditto. The line-drawn illustrations were superb - made everything look straightforward and 'achievable'

The HP Proliant server PSU hacks are so simple I really wouldn't bother considering anything else (but the PC PSU hacks are good if you want a variety of voltages). MattyB linked the relevant thread; all the info is in there and the HP hack pretty much meets the OPs desire to just 'solder a couple of female ends'...

I'd also try these tests with the linkage disconnected, just to ensure there's nothing 'external' to stop the servo centreing.

@John Lee- Pretty much describes my experience as well. The trade area looked smaller, but outfits like SLEC were 'hosting' smaller concerns like Belair (sorely tempted by the Sopwith Triplane) and Permagrit. Despite my earlier reservations, three of us went up and had a 'Grand Day Out'.

If you do as Geoff suggests, make sure you reference the front face of the removable part of the engine mount, as this has downthrust bent in. TBH, it's easier to fit a prop and make sure that a line through it (vertically) is square to the fus. top/tailplane using your Mk I eyeball. Side thrust is already built into the mount. Note that newer versions of the kit have the lower mounting screws at the rear packed out with washers to effectively remove the downthrust bent in at the front!

My money is on the MM Avenger. To be fair to the kit (and the ad.) I suspect the original builder was a bit shy with the razor plane! These kipper designs require aggressive removal of wood from the corners - that's what the RA fillets inside the fus. are for! I've seen Phases of all sorts built as boxes with the corners just rounded over - absolutely vile!

OK - I was hoping for something a little more square on, but I stick with my original judgement that your thrustline is OK: PS - if that break in the rear fus. was severe, you might want to check that the carbon boom hasn't splintered. If your rear fus. is excessively bendy, it might have. If so, run some thin cyano down it from the wing seat end and hope that it binds the fibres together. (If it doesn't, then limit your 'G' accordingly!!)

The motor centreline needs to be parallel to the top of the rear fuselage (i.e. //el to the tailplane). Although in the pic shown it appears to require downthrust, it doesn't. Can you put up a pic showing the entire fuselage side - as square-on as you can get it? PS. - preferably with your back to the window...

One charge should last you all day.

Control line in the parade ring! 🙂 It was still fairly packed in the early 2000s, but back in the day you had major distributors and manufacturers exhibiting on the top floor as well as the 'cottage industry' types in the basement. Latterly, it became a competition between the big retailers to see who could sell you a Futaba 148 the cheapest!

Hmm. I see that the Friday ticket price is £15 on the gate only, which probably reflects the reduced trade and display. Maybe a miss this year...

Good thing it was all over in '45. Gawd knows how we'd have coped with the shoelaces they planned to bring out in '46...

The first time they opened on the Friday (several years ago) it was crepe. Half the stands not arrived or just not open. Still paid full price. I hope they've got their act together as Friday is the only day my 'posse' can make it this year. Have the Fridays got any better in the meantime?

If it's any consolation, you may have had a lucky escape as mine was a pain in the proverbial. The action was stiff from the off, the peristaltic tube kept blowing off and the spindle housing broke. I got fed up of repairing it. Replaced it with a commercial fluids dispenser - 30ccs at a stroke.

Why not get together, find a field and form a Club? It's a long time since I've been up there, but I recall some nice flat spots on the A489 between Newtown and the Caersws turn-off. There are a couple of other people in the area that I know of who are 'lone-wolves' and not necessarily by choice. Only takes 5 to be fully affiliated!

For years, I used a SLEC 'blue' in an OS40FS-powered J60. Flown sedately (1/4 to 1/3 throttle) I used to get 20-25 minutes. I've had the FA Sportster plan for some time and intend to use a Saito 30FS in it - with a SLEC 'bue' tank 🙂

Good to know, Beth. Please update us when its fully 'rolled out' and I'll remove my ad-blocker 🙂

Maybe a MFA design? The tail end looks a lot like a 'High Sierra'.

Aha! A 'mid-roll' (to use a YouTube expression) ad has just popped up on another thread, so I've had to reactivate the ad-blocker on this site. I'll remove it when the problem is solved...

The bigger problem is that suppliers insist on stocking rod and tube which is a non (or ill)-fitting mish-mash of both systems! What about soldering on the mm tube as a stub axle, then using the next size up for the rotating part with the cotter, etc?

Blade & box work fine. I like the idea of 'stacked' tubes though - never seen that before! I'll give that a go when the opportunity arises.

Adverts at the masthead or in the footer are fine and ads in the sidebars would be too. Ads between posts are a no-no.

Thanks Graham. 👍 (I'm aware of unsubscribing of course, but the signing up for things on t'internet is a bit like the Hotel California...)

I've not subscribed so to me, at the moment, it looks as if you get alerts UK-wide. I'm not going to wade through a raft of alerts completely irrelevant to me, so can anyone who is subscribed tell me if the alerts can be 'tailored' (as it says on the website) to a specific locality? Even alerts centred on local ATCs or main postcode areas would be better than blanket notifications.

Ditto. Cyano...