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On the day they closed, and for a few days afterwards, there was a message displayed on their website giving the contact details of who to contact regarding their stock. I e-mailed the person concerned, Robert, but never received a reply. Unless somebody bought the stock, I suppose it have been, or will be, sold off at an auction at some point, as is usual in the case of company liquidations, in order to pay any creditors (usually the liquidators themselves are at the top of that list). It may then reappear either through another company or on ebay or similar. Here is the page as displayed at the time. Subsequently the website went off line permanently. Brian.

As others have said, most SC engines are available new once again, which are the same as ASP and Magnum. Whether the distributors in various countries intend to hold much in the way of spare parts remains to be seen. In ‘the old days’ many bought their spares through a third party (Just Engines more recently, John D Haytree further in the past in the UK) because that was often a more reliable route than ordering from the distributor via the local model shop (when these existed). I suspect that the days of suppliers keeping a proportion of spares on the shelf has long gone. It’s the same in all walks of life. Yes still plenty of used engines available, many are only really suitable for use as spares anyway. Brian.

Not so much of a dark age as Spain was in recently… it came to a halt when there was a widespread power cut. Brian.

Did you try flying the Laser with a coarser pitched prop than 6” Ady? I think a 6” pitch prop turning at 7100rpm would have limited the model’s performance a bit. Brian.

There is a Kamco Kavalier plan with instructions on the BMFA Classifieds site at the moment… https://classifieds.bmfa.uk/acadp_listings/kamco-kavalier-plan Also available (from a different seller) is a complete model, with engine and including a plan… https://classifieds.bmfa.uk/acadp_listings/kamco-kavalier That gives you a couple of options. Brian.

The Rare Bear is now in stock at the UK Warehouse Brian, for £131.34. Two colour options. Brian.

If you go to a model show, have a rummage through the bring and buy and the used model traders. Last year at Old Warden I bought three used Irvine carbs for £10 out of a big box of mixed 2 stroke engines. These carbs were also fitted to Laser engines for a number of years (which was my reason for buying the carbs). Brian.

Extremely unlikely, and made even more unlikely by the fact that these ‘symptoms’ have not, as far as I’m aware, been reported by anyone else on here or elsewhere. Were the carrying of a ‘phone to be an issue, we would be hearing a lot more about problems that it was causing. What is far more likely in my opinion is either incorrect setting of the failsafe reacting to a signal issue, or some incorrect setting of the functions in the transmitters concerned. Rightly or wrongly, many fliers have their ‘phone in their pocket when they are flying yet we don’t have a lot of unexplained incidents. I have also taken part in competitions, run by a BMFA Technical Committee, where the judges, who are seated in front of the competitor, have mobile ‘phones and do use them on occasion. I fully agree with Peter’s post of yesterday. Brian.

My Myford lathe came from the factory that I used to work in. The place was literally being demolished for housing as we were still working there. It would no doubt have landed up on the pile of scrap girders, workbenches etc. When I was told that I could have it, I didn’t waste any time getting home and back with my trailer! Brian.

Sorry, the above post should have read ‘functional’ not ‘performance’ cookies. Brian.

I agree with Ace’s last post, I always reject cookies on You Tube but can still watch it (with the frequent advert breaks). With this forum, I get a different outcome to Ace though, as I’m able to select the ‘performance’ cookies only and all is ok. Brian.

Not almost at all.. In the recent thread about a 'problem' with a Saito 100, he started the thread as Flying Daddy, then continued part way through as Rocker. Must have got mixed up as which persona he was playing that day. Brian.

Different to my experience then. Perhaps it is down to the type of tacho and how sensitive it is to the on/off transition. A torch is fine as a light source but it won’t check the calibration. Brian.

Well done on your intention to ‘repair not replace’. I can’t imagine that the weight difference between a 160mAh battery and a 180mAh battery would be enough to prevent the heli from flying, so perhaps the battery is faulty or there is something else at fault. Sometimes the tiny nylon gears on the motor shafts split on these small helis, then the gear slips on the shaft so the rotors don’t reach full speed. Worth checking. I fitted one of these batteries to a Syma heli last year and it works perfectly. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/185390188007 Brian.

It has to be a fluorescent lamp… modern LEDs and proper old-fashioned incandescent lamps won’t work! Brian.

Glad you got to the bottom of it. I wonder what in the other model memory was causing the issue. Interesting. Brian.

Ok thanks, that has eliminated that line of enquiry then (apparently the 2019 versions do not support LR12). If the tx that won’t bind is identical to the others except that it is running Edge TX instead of Open TX that points to an issue with Edge TX I guess. Brian.

Yes but is the transmitter the X9D+ 2019? I think it’s the one with the roller to the rhs of the display rather than buttons. And you charge the battery using a USB lead. Also, it will say ACCESS under the display, the older ones say ACCST. Brian.

Is the tx that won’t bind the 2019 version by any chance? I’m not clear from your last post whether you have one tx that won’t bind (No. 3) or two that won’t bind (Nos. 1 and 3). Brian.

I guess you have tried binding with the tx moved further away from the rx? Sometimes they don’t work if too close. Also worth binding a known good rx with the X9D+ just in case it has developed a fault. Brian.

Do you have any receivers with the UNI firmware loaded and working? If you do, if you bind one to your ‘unknown’ QX7, you can then use the UNIStats LUA script to find out what version of ACCST the internal module is running. I was under the impression that the LR12 protocol was a different one to ACCST and there was only one version (no V2). Am I wrong? Brian.

I think he meant 10dB down is about 10% of the full power, which it is. Brian.

Some of us did. And still do… The same with cars… as long as you have something that isn’t of the latest generation they can be home repaired if you really want to. Brian.

It’s easy enough to set up a volume control on a Taranis to reduce the sounds to a low level, or even to zero. Suggest to him that he does that. Brian.

Totally agree on the trims, though you have to remember to reset them when changing model memories. The FF7 Super had 4 model memories. Back in the 90s I modified one by adding a 4 position rotary switch on the top cover next to the aerial, and wiring it to three extra EPROMs that were piggy-backed onto the existing one on the circuit board. Used in conjunction with the standard model memory selection, this gave 16 model memories, unheard of back then. But it was easy to get confused and select the wrong memory so I eventually changed it back. The other mod. to do was to solder a flying lead to the charge board so that a normal battery pack could be used to replace the original one which had stud contacts. Good times… Brian.