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Slope Soaring / Re: West Wings Skylark build thread
« on: March 03, 2016, 09:20:50 AM »
I always run my blenderm tape the full length of the control surface, it stops bits of grass and stuff getting stuck in there and ensures a more even motion of the surface.

Hinging is always a bit of a PITA so normally I firstly use two or three tiny pieces of cellotape to hold the control surface in the correct position, then I apply enough blenderm to extend over both ends, finally I trim the overhanging tape to be flush with the edges.

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Slope Soaring / Re: Mini Fox
« on: March 01, 2016, 08:18:36 AM »
2 x 2gram servos. A frsky 4ch rx and a little 250 mah lipo. I like the frsky rx as they run just fine on a one cell lipo with no brownouts, no bec needed.

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Slope Soaring / Re: Mini Fox
« on: February 29, 2016, 21:10:24 PM »
Looks good john, just finished something similar myself, 46cm free flight glider from banggood. 2ch v tail. Now just need a day with not so much wind to fly it.

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Events / Re: 2016 ISR Slope Fest - End of Season Meeting
« on: February 25, 2016, 09:26:31 AM »
Hi Fred,

Great work on the new forum 8)

Want to try and get down for this, has to be at least a year since I have done any modelling/flying.

Justin

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Scale / Blanik L-13 - Aluminium Overcast
« on: April 15, 2015, 07:28:39 AM »
Hi Fred, looks shiny  :shock: hopefully its not sunny the day you fly it, it may blind you. We will have to dig out our oversized sun glasses for the maiden.

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The trick, is to let the piece fall into the support while keeping the tension, and then, with your fingers, rub it down slowly, still with tension to avoid bubbles etc. Easier to explain with photos :)


Having covered nearly every model I own in some sort of tape I find using an old credit card to smooth out the bubbles very effective. Start at the inside and work your way along the tape pushing to the outside then repeat for the other side. Another trick when using tape is to make sure you never put the roll down on its side as bits of dirt will stick to the edge of the tape and cause imperfections when it is applied.

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Electrics / mugi evo electric
« on: April 12, 2015, 19:04:19 PM »
Just finished this model today, plan from here Mugi evo. The original is 800mm wingspan but I decided to scale it up to a whopping 1000mm  :o this model goes together really fast and even as quite a slow builder it only Took me about 4 hours. I could have done a better job but not getting too much time to hobby these days, lets hope it stays in one piece long enough to get a maiden flight out of her.

As there is currently an outright ban on spending model tokens in this house everything had to be made from already available parts. Construction is all 2mm correx and tape, 2836 1500kv motor, 40 Amp esc, 9 gram metal geared servos and a 50c 3 cell lip. It should go as I recently had this motor on a model twice the weight and that was quite fast  :twisted:  :twisted:

Here is a pic along with the instigator of said model token ban.

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Slope Soaring / West Wings Skylark build thread
« on: April 07, 2015, 09:17:27 AM »
Hi muppet (this will never get old for me) a 2 cell lipo will put out 8.4 volts at a full charge which will likely fry.the rx and servos, most will only take up to 6 volts. also 200 mah is quite a low capacity and probably wouldnt last a whole day flying. my personal preference is to try and use as big a battery up front as it needs to balance and save putting useless lead in there. an 1100 two cell should fit in there (will post measurements of a pack later) and a small ubec or sbec to step down the voltage to 5 colts. alternatively you can use an nimh pack which outputs voltage at 4.8 volts and skip the ubec but i have never used one as they are imo fiddly to charge and useless for powered models.

pls excuse typos as on phone.

edit. also save your money and go for a low c rating pack unless you will be using it for powered flying.

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Slope Soaring / West Wings Skylark build thread
« on: April 04, 2015, 18:20:33 PM »
Great progress so far muppet  :) will she be ready in time for the slope fest?

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Slope Soaring / Stapinn
« on: April 01, 2015, 11:42:25 AM »
Nice video selleri, the scenery there looks stunning and freezing at the same time.

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Slope Soaring / West Wings Skylark build thread
« on: March 23, 2015, 22:48:27 PM »
Good progress so far, looking forward to seeing it in the air.

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Slope Soaring / First Glide In of the season (14-!5 March)
« on: March 17, 2015, 13:28:54 PM »
Looked like a great weekend. Thanks for the pics and writeup Fred. Aermacchi looks stunning and a well deserved first place JP.

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Slope Soaring / First Glide In of the season (14-!5 March)
« on: March 16, 2015, 10:58:02 AM »
Any pictures lads?

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Slope Soaring / First Glide In of the season (14-!5 March)
« on: March 10, 2015, 22:04:22 PM »
Hi all, unfortunately I can't make this one  :!:  :!:  :!:  :!:

It's little Julia's great grandads 80th birthday so I will be in Barcelona, can't complain too much I suppose. I am upset I will be missing the bring and buy, I have a tonne of money burning a hole in my pocket (*continues dreaming*).

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Misceleanous / Happy 2015 and a new arrival
« on: January 12, 2015, 17:01:02 PM »
HAHAH Oh Keith you just made me laugh out loud in work, and that was certainly not my intention with choice of picture and words.

Would it makes things better if I posted a pic of the actual mother and said `both baby and dog doing great`?  :?:

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Events / 2015 ISR Gliding events... and others!
« on: January 12, 2015, 12:16:00 PM »
Looking forward to the March fly in, hopefully can get a few free hours between now and then to actually get something into a flyable state  :!:  :!:

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