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Slope Soaring / Re: Mount Leinster ISR meeting. 12-13 April 2025
« on: April 11, 2025, 12:33:35 PM »
I will be there too.
See you tomorrow.
Joe
See you tomorrow.
Joe
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Slope Soaring / Re: Club Fleece and other merch
« on: March 04, 2025, 09:54:35 AM »
Hi Ralph,
XL fleece please.
XL fleece please.
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Slope Soaring / Re: 2025 ISR Dates
« on: February 05, 2025, 11:14:29 AM »
Hi All
I expect to be there also.
Joe
I expect to be there also.
Joe
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Slope Soaring / Re: Merry Christmas everyone
« on: December 26, 2024, 10:27:00 AM »
Hi All,
Hope that you all had a lovely Christmas and best wishes for the new year.
Yes Ralph Santa did not forget and dropped off 2 x boxes marked made in Croatia, will report more later.
Joe
Hope that you all had a lovely Christmas and best wishes for the new year.
Yes Ralph Santa did not forget and dropped off 2 x boxes marked made in Croatia, will report more later.
Joe
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Slope Soaring / Nose repair / reattachment on my glass F3B model.
« on: October 19, 2024, 14:59:56 PM »
Having snagged a wing tip while landing on Mt Leinster at our last meeting in September the model started a ground loop which quickly converted into a wingover and the model landed vertically nose down and facing downwind. The arrival looked and sounded nasty.
Having recovered the model thankfully the only damage was an almost completely sheared off nose and a slightly damaged nose cone. (see photos)
Back at home I decided that to prevent further damage I should glue as much as possible back together with super glue. Having checked that all was straight I left overnight to cure, while I contemplated as to how I might carry out a proper repair.
What was decided was to cover the remaining holes with yellow insulating tape polish up the nose and we would be good to go.
But only to phase two!
As I did not wish to damage the fuselage behind the joint with the nose cone the repairs would have to be done internally, but how there is no way in? I decided that the servo tray would have to go, but before doing this I had to reinforce / support the damaged area from outside. This was done with a fiberglass wrap which I could later remove.I then cut away the servo tray and got clear access to complete the repair.
I ground away some of the original glass on the damaged area and filled using a mulch of chopped carbon and resin L. when this had cured I laid a strip of 50mm glass tape 200g/sqm from the rear of the wing joiner box to close to the nose, this reinforced the seam and the break. When this was set I ground down the edges so that I could get a good bond for the next layers. I added a tow of carbon along either side of the opening to replace what had been damaged in the break and this was in turn covered with a layer of glass tape on each side of the opening. These strips extended from the incidence pin location to just in front of the fuselage opening and again I ground back the edges when the resin had cured. I put two further strips diagonally over the damaged area this complete the internal work and the crutch could then be removed.
I then made a replacement servo tray which I bonded in with resin. when all was cured I ground away the damage from the outer area along the lines of the break and again laid up a mulch of Carbon Glass and resin. This got sanded back with wet and dry filled and sanded again before touching up with paint.
While the final result is not perfect but I am pleased with how it has turned out and the total weight gain was only 10g.
Having recovered the model thankfully the only damage was an almost completely sheared off nose and a slightly damaged nose cone. (see photos)
Back at home I decided that to prevent further damage I should glue as much as possible back together with super glue. Having checked that all was straight I left overnight to cure, while I contemplated as to how I might carry out a proper repair.
What was decided was to cover the remaining holes with yellow insulating tape polish up the nose and we would be good to go.
But only to phase two!
As I did not wish to damage the fuselage behind the joint with the nose cone the repairs would have to be done internally, but how there is no way in? I decided that the servo tray would have to go, but before doing this I had to reinforce / support the damaged area from outside. This was done with a fiberglass wrap which I could later remove.I then cut away the servo tray and got clear access to complete the repair.
I ground away some of the original glass on the damaged area and filled using a mulch of chopped carbon and resin L. when this had cured I laid a strip of 50mm glass tape 200g/sqm from the rear of the wing joiner box to close to the nose, this reinforced the seam and the break. When this was set I ground down the edges so that I could get a good bond for the next layers. I added a tow of carbon along either side of the opening to replace what had been damaged in the break and this was in turn covered with a layer of glass tape on each side of the opening. These strips extended from the incidence pin location to just in front of the fuselage opening and again I ground back the edges when the resin had cured. I put two further strips diagonally over the damaged area this complete the internal work and the crutch could then be removed.
I then made a replacement servo tray which I bonded in with resin. when all was cured I ground away the damage from the outer area along the lines of the break and again laid up a mulch of Carbon Glass and resin. This got sanded back with wet and dry filled and sanded again before touching up with paint.
While the final result is not perfect but I am pleased with how it has turned out and the total weight gain was only 10g.
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Slope Soaring / Re: ISR dates 2024 UPDATED!!
« on: September 17, 2024, 10:33:03 AM »
Hi Guys
I hope to be there also.
Joe
I hope to be there also.
Joe
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PSS / Re: XF5U “Flying Pancake” PSS
« on: May 16, 2024, 09:56:35 AM »
Hi Fred
See you managed to flip the Pancake!
Did you manage to make it FLY?
See you managed to flip the Pancake!
Did you manage to make it FLY?
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Slope Soaring / Re: Fly-in Cork June 1,2,3 All Welcome
« on: May 16, 2024, 09:50:12 AM »
Hi Ralph
Accommodation booked see you there.
Joe
Accommodation booked see you there.
Joe
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Slope Soaring / Re: 2024 Subs
« on: March 06, 2024, 11:18:22 AM »
Hi Ralph
I will be joining also. See you on Mt Leinster.
Joe
I will be joining also. See you on Mt Leinster.
Joe
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Slope Soaring / Re: Seasons Greetings
« on: December 25, 2023, 10:00:24 AM »
Nice approach Ralph!
Santa has finally landed, hope he has brought something nice for everyone.
Wish you all a happy Christmas and a great new year.
Joe
Santa has finally landed, hope he has brought something nice for everyone.
Wish you all a happy Christmas and a great new year.
Joe
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Slope Soaring / Re: Cork Glide-in 2023
« on: June 27, 2023, 15:54:37 PM »
I Ralph,
I will be down also, see you Saturday.
Joe
I will be down also, see you Saturday.
Joe
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Scale / Re: 1/4 scale Grunau baby
« on: January 14, 2023, 15:40:30 PM »
Hi Adam
I can't recall what the final setting was, but if you go with Fred's advise and set the wings at +1.5 deg and the tail plane at 0 you won't be far off. This is what I did and I then added 1/32 ply packing under rear of tail-plane after first flight. Moving the c/g back may also have been an option, I have not had the opertunity to fly the model since then but it is easy to fly and it does fly very well.
Hope this helps, all the best and may happy hours flying with yours.
I can't recall what the final setting was, but if you go with Fred's advise and set the wings at +1.5 deg and the tail plane at 0 you won't be far off. This is what I did and I then added 1/32 ply packing under rear of tail-plane after first flight. Moving the c/g back may also have been an option, I have not had the opertunity to fly the model since then but it is easy to fly and it does fly very well.
Hope this helps, all the best and may happy hours flying with yours.
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Slope Soaring / Re: Mount L May 7th and 8th
« on: May 05, 2022, 16:17:35 PM »
Hi Ralph
I hope to make it down on Saturday but all depends on how Eileen is doing on the day as she has not been too good over the last two weeks.
Joe
I hope to make it down on Saturday but all depends on how Eileen is doing on the day as she has not been too good over the last two weeks.
Joe
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Slope Soaring / Re: Club Subs and MACI
« on: March 28, 2022, 15:43:41 PM »
Hi Ralph
Thanks for that.
Are we meeting on Mt Leinster next weekend or is it the following weekend.
Joe
Thanks for that.
Are we meeting on Mt Leinster next weekend or is it the following weekend.
Joe
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Slope Soaring / Re: Merry Christmas everyone
« on: January 01, 2022, 11:09:07 AM »
Happy new year everyone.
Nice photos John, I remember Johnny Carroll from when I first joined MACI back about 50 years ago. If I remember correctly he was probably our chief scale judge and judged at a number of international F3C scale events. I believe that he died while out flying gliders at Lacken.
In the photo of Kevin Barry do you recall if he was been given a countdown or was he shown the fingers to tell him to F*** off?
Joe.
Nice photos John, I remember Johnny Carroll from when I first joined MACI back about 50 years ago. If I remember correctly he was probably our chief scale judge and judged at a number of international F3C scale events. I believe that he died while out flying gliders at Lacken.
In the photo of Kevin Barry do you recall if he was been given a countdown or was he shown the fingers to tell him to F*** off?
Joe.