I'm still here..................
Sept 30, 2008 10:34:38 GMT -4
Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2008 10:34:38 GMT -4
Hello all,
I haven’t posted any thing in the pass few mouths so here’s what I’ve been up to.
The mouths of July and August weren’t good to me.
First of , I was in my basement using my heat gun to apply the covering on my R/C plane , a severer thunder storm came right over my house. I payed no attention to it until I got a electrical shock from the heat gun thru my hand and then as I was jumping around , coming off my stool , I took a arc shot from my butt to the stool.
I had a nice little raspberry spot on my butt cheek from that one. I guess we had a lighting strike hit the ground very close to the house.
Then my computer died. It had been acting up for while. I would take two or three time of starting it up and shutting down before I would get a picture on the monitor. One day I got nothing at all.
A friend of a coworker who is pretty good at building and fixing computers had a look at it. Turns out the video card had burned out. This comput had come with two video cards. You could hook up to the TV set for use as a monitor. So he trash the bad one and replace the good one into that spot.
Then in August , My 2002 Mitsubishi Galant died. I was park just down the road from where I work in a park reading my news papers and magazines as I do a lot before work. I went to start the car to leave and got nothing . The engine was turning over but no firing . I blew out the timing belt.
If I went by the book , mileage wise , I would had been on my sixth timing belt. That’s a new belt every year at about 600.$$$$$ a shot.
This car has been nothing but bad luck . Now I’m the prod owner of a 2009 Toyota Tocoma 4X4 truck. I’ve been in need of a truck for some time now. The kids are grown up now so a family car isn’t needed as much any more. I still have the car park here in my yard waiting for me to come up with the money to get it fix. Then I’ll pass it on to my son.
Then around the beginning of September , I wasn’t feeling right at work. I went to the dispensary . They thought I was having a mild hart attack and sent me to the hospital where I spent the night all hook up to monitors and such . Nothing came of it just a false alarm. I still don’t know just what came over me but all is well , so far.
Soooo………….. The colder weather is coming soon and soon I’ll get back into the plastic stuff.
First I have to find the boxes of stuff that I started before the flying bug had bit me.
Here’s a few shots of some R/C planes that I just finish up building.
E- flite electric powered ARF kit
Diamante 25e
Design by Peter Goldsmith
Wing span of 48”
Length of 50 “
4chn R/C
Powered by a E-flite 32 brushless out runner motor 770Kv
ARF means Almost Ready to Fly . You have to glue up the tail fins , hinge up the control parts, install the motor and radio gear . I added the crazy man head for a pilot.
Out of the box , I was amazed at how very good every thing came covered. Most of the time with other kits you have to take the heat gun to it to get rid of wrinkles and to tighten up the covering.
Flying this thing is super great. Very fast , very aerobatic. Nice and stable at slow speeds too.
A Balsa USA kit of a WWI Fokker Eindecker
Wing span of 54 “
Fuselage of 43”
Engine is a Magnum XLFS 52 AR 4 stroke
4 chn. R/C
Building the fuselage by the book wasn’t working out for me . I was getting a bad twist in it. I had to use my building wing / fuselage jig to get it right. I don’t use it much but it’s a God send when I do need it.
When it was time to pre balance the model with every thing in it to fly it , as I had thought , it turn out very tail heavy. NOT a good thing to fly with.
The fuselage is or was sheeted balsa wood on all 4 sides . I cut out large squares in between the bulkheads to lighten it all up., but still needed some added weight up on the fire wall.
I covered the whole thing with some Dacron dress or coat liner material .Dope on paint.
Not to many hobby shops around here carry much for paints any more . I wanted a light tan or cream color of the finial color but that just wasn’t going to happen. I had to settle with olive drab. OH WELL.
Flying it is great, not a fast flyer nice and slow like the real thing.
I haven’t posted any thing in the pass few mouths so here’s what I’ve been up to.
The mouths of July and August weren’t good to me.
First of , I was in my basement using my heat gun to apply the covering on my R/C plane , a severer thunder storm came right over my house. I payed no attention to it until I got a electrical shock from the heat gun thru my hand and then as I was jumping around , coming off my stool , I took a arc shot from my butt to the stool.
I had a nice little raspberry spot on my butt cheek from that one. I guess we had a lighting strike hit the ground very close to the house.
Then my computer died. It had been acting up for while. I would take two or three time of starting it up and shutting down before I would get a picture on the monitor. One day I got nothing at all.
A friend of a coworker who is pretty good at building and fixing computers had a look at it. Turns out the video card had burned out. This comput had come with two video cards. You could hook up to the TV set for use as a monitor. So he trash the bad one and replace the good one into that spot.
Then in August , My 2002 Mitsubishi Galant died. I was park just down the road from where I work in a park reading my news papers and magazines as I do a lot before work. I went to start the car to leave and got nothing . The engine was turning over but no firing . I blew out the timing belt.
If I went by the book , mileage wise , I would had been on my sixth timing belt. That’s a new belt every year at about 600.$$$$$ a shot.
This car has been nothing but bad luck . Now I’m the prod owner of a 2009 Toyota Tocoma 4X4 truck. I’ve been in need of a truck for some time now. The kids are grown up now so a family car isn’t needed as much any more. I still have the car park here in my yard waiting for me to come up with the money to get it fix. Then I’ll pass it on to my son.
Then around the beginning of September , I wasn’t feeling right at work. I went to the dispensary . They thought I was having a mild hart attack and sent me to the hospital where I spent the night all hook up to monitors and such . Nothing came of it just a false alarm. I still don’t know just what came over me but all is well , so far.
Soooo………….. The colder weather is coming soon and soon I’ll get back into the plastic stuff.
First I have to find the boxes of stuff that I started before the flying bug had bit me.
Here’s a few shots of some R/C planes that I just finish up building.
E- flite electric powered ARF kit
Diamante 25e
Design by Peter Goldsmith
Wing span of 48”
Length of 50 “
4chn R/C
Powered by a E-flite 32 brushless out runner motor 770Kv
ARF means Almost Ready to Fly . You have to glue up the tail fins , hinge up the control parts, install the motor and radio gear . I added the crazy man head for a pilot.
Out of the box , I was amazed at how very good every thing came covered. Most of the time with other kits you have to take the heat gun to it to get rid of wrinkles and to tighten up the covering.
Flying this thing is super great. Very fast , very aerobatic. Nice and stable at slow speeds too.
A Balsa USA kit of a WWI Fokker Eindecker
Wing span of 54 “
Fuselage of 43”
Engine is a Magnum XLFS 52 AR 4 stroke
4 chn. R/C
Building the fuselage by the book wasn’t working out for me . I was getting a bad twist in it. I had to use my building wing / fuselage jig to get it right. I don’t use it much but it’s a God send when I do need it.
When it was time to pre balance the model with every thing in it to fly it , as I had thought , it turn out very tail heavy. NOT a good thing to fly with.
The fuselage is or was sheeted balsa wood on all 4 sides . I cut out large squares in between the bulkheads to lighten it all up., but still needed some added weight up on the fire wall.
I covered the whole thing with some Dacron dress or coat liner material .Dope on paint.
Not to many hobby shops around here carry much for paints any more . I wanted a light tan or cream color of the finial color but that just wasn’t going to happen. I had to settle with olive drab. OH WELL.
Flying it is great, not a fast flyer nice and slow like the real thing.
