Mowerman Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Lost a model due to flying in too high wind. Bought a loc8er. Model lost due to pilot error. Loc8er switched on, imediately pointed to the tool box in the back of my car!!!!! Whos 'a d**** head then ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ashby - Moderator Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 Shouldn't laugh but .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Peter 'Ivanna Crashalot' Savage Posted March 25, 2009 Share Posted March 25, 2009 hang on a sec, shouldn't your toolbox be with you at the strip, not in your car? i haven't even had to use the lost model alarm in my models, not really worth the extra weight when you don't fly out of a corn field!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 don't take it out of your models coz sods law you will then lose them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter 'Ivanna Crashalot' Savage Posted March 26, 2009 Share Posted March 26, 2009 the most valuble thing in that plane is the receiver! an AR6200! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Claridge Posted February 25, 2010 Author Share Posted February 25, 2010 hi folks, just resurecting an old thread. not really model related but sods law at work, our boiler started making funny noises when it tried to light, the fan would start then the pilot light lit up but the main burner would'nt light for a couple of minutes. a nieghbour is a plumber and gas fitter, he came and diagnosed the printed circuit board was us as boiler is twenty years old we thought that was it mega bucks for a new one but low and behold we got a new pcb for £134 waing two weeks for it to arrive, he fitted it switched on and the boiler was dead. refitted old pcb back to square one. three pcb's later i said to the plumber maybe its the pilot light as the flame didnot look as big as it used to he gave me that classic tradesman to idiot look and said ok i will take it off and blow it though with an aircan, refitted it switched and hey presto one workihg boiler, he looked rather sheepish and departed we thought thats it we had got the money back from the very understanding shop for the pcb as we did not use it in the end. then two days later boiler goes sick again sods law the force is strong, rather than calling the fitter out yet again i got to the shop to see if they have a pilot light and thermocouple, sods law relents he tells me they are obsolete but they still have one in stock £23 changes hands, i fit the thing myself in ten minutes flat and bingo boiler works perfeckly, so sods law made us live though a couple of months of realy cold weather not knowing if or when the boiler would die Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter 'Ivanna Crashalot' Savage Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Went to the field, prop comes undone, go home a nd redo it, go second time and the wire comes off the starter!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby159 Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Going to school parents evening and being expected to sit on a little chair like the 'little people' Nobby Edited By Nobby159 on 01/03/2010 22:13:00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Foreman Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Glassing models, tis the devils work, takes days for the epoxy to go off and weeks before you finish all the sanding, that's when you sand through the glass and have to repair it then you have the painting to look forward to which will show up all the bits you missed when you were sanding, which means more sanding! The epoxy dust is delightful! Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Grigg Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Dropping little things on the floor I was having trouble seeing before I dropped them on the floor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Claridge Posted March 2, 2010 Author Share Posted March 2, 2010 finding anything in my model loft tip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reno Racer Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 That is always sunny, with little wind when I'm at work; the weekend is then overcast and raining. You bang the wings or tail on the garage door or car door when talking out your new built pride and joy on its maiden flight. You end up with cyno all over your fingers, some on the hairy hinge which then drys toobefore you manage to get the hinges fully pushed in You don't read the instructions, glue stuff together, then realise its wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Jordan Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Gemma, Drilling holes in human flesh is not recommended as nothing will blunt a nice sharp scalpel blade or a drill than human blood. ( do not ask how I know this) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NigelH Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Pet hates ? Easy. Touch and goes. Why !?!?!???!?!?!!!??? That was a rhetorical question so please don't try and convince me that they are 1. fun 2. clever 3. anything else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 Stephen, as ever you hit the nail on the head. Just tonight I was fitting the riblets to the Pup wings. Then "ping" one spins out of my fingers. I hear it land "somewhere" on the building board/bench area. Its got glue on it so I really want to find it. Search everywhere. After 5 mins give up and cut another. Of course as soon as you cut another one guess what? I put the scalpel down and there right in front of me is the other *&(!$^ riblet! I should know better. Its standard aeromodelling wisdom, it should be learnt by rote by all of us.... "If you want to find the tiny bit you have just dropped, all you have to do is make another one - no problem"! BEB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobby159 Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 The words "and I've tided your work bench, dear" Nobby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buster prop Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Pet hate: bending wire to make u/c legs, I always end up with one longer or at a slightly different angle than the other. Another ph: covering wing tips and another: having to go shopping when the weather is flyable and then it blows or rains when I can go flying.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheldon Holy Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Sods law... Hmm... Got my 1/4 scale Stampe to the field, engine dosent work as there is a clog in the carb. Try to fly the heli, but stwitch goes mad on starter, i remove starting wand from model, but hey, the switch will quite happily turn on, when i dont want it to, and it wont't turn off. Anyway, starting wand removed ffrom model, starter still going, wand flies out of starter, and punches a nice hole in the canopy.I get home, fix starter, go down to my field to fly. 12v battery flat after filling up my last tank of fuel. I charge 12v battery, go down there, to find that i had left the tube off the engine with the clip undone... my last tank of fuel had drained out onto the grass.Next time with Stampe, carb clogged again.Next time with Stampe, everything working beforehand. I turn it on and see smoke pouring out of every possible orrifice. When soldering inside only recently before, some solder got splashed across the positive and negative contacts of the battery checker plug and had shorted out the very high power sub-c nimh 3300mha 6v rx pack.Pet hate:Someone crashes a plane due to loss of radio contact, turns around and says "thats the fourth time that reciever has done that!" That person is me. Solarfilm won't shrink properly.. More heat. Heat gun burns a hole in beatifully covered wing and you realise, despite you painting the whole model in balsaloc beforehand, that you have applied covering with backing still on. Go to America with your coaxial heli, turn it on to fly on the first night, to find that you have left the Rx crystal 2500 miles away... Sheldon (Shedlon Hobnob) Feel free to laugh... Edited By sheldon holy on 03/03/2010 21:30:43 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheldon Holy Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 Oh, i forgot one. At the Club, with people watching, starting my heli, taking it out to the strip, walking back to the flightline...I throttle up... nothing happens. I realise it is not turned on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheldon Holy Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 And lastly, starting the heli in Idle-Up (full throttle). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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