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  1. Whilst we await a call from the RSPCA regarding the fate of Ade's octupi, we'll continue with our league results from today! By now the Channel 4 coverage should be at the post-race stage, so firstly, here's who scored what today; Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 4 0 Igoronic racing iqon 149 2 1 0 Pitts Specials john stones 144 3 6 0 Oyster f1 Glenn Philbrick 138 4 5 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 138 5 7 0 teewrex John Tee 136 6 2 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 130 7 3 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 129 8 13 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 114 9 8 1 Revers Racing Pete B 100 10 10 0 Torque of the devil Stu 99 11 9 1 PSS Power Flyer 96 12 12 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 91 13 11 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 80 At the top today is Iqon with 149 points. Just 5 points back on 144 is John S, with Glenn and Charles both scoring 138 points for joint third. Well done to today's top 3/4! Now, how do today's points affect the overall table? Pos League Rank Team Manager Pts 1 1 0 Pitts Specials john stones 2852.0 2 2 0 GASTON Formula Chris McG 2797.5 3 3 0 Essex Racing Tony Clark 2567.5 4 4 0 Igoronic racing iqon 2539.5 5 5 0 Team Charles Picd Charles Pic 2519.5 6 6 0 Oyster f1 Glenn Philbrick 2423.5 7 7 0 teewrex John Tee 2345.5 8 8 1 Revers Racing Pete B 2298.0 9 9 1 PSS Power Flyer 2296.5 10 10 0 Torque of the devil Stu 2191.0 11 11 0 Norfolk Flyers Kevin Fairgrieve 2112.5 12 12 0 The JP Specials johnpflyrc 2061.5 13 13 0 DMFC Racing Team Simon Webb 2030.0 Just one place change today, we'll come to that in a moment... At the top, John S holds on to top spot with a slightly increased lead over Chris in second. Tony remains in third. Further down the table there's one place swap - Pete moves ahead of Ade, but only by one and a half points! We get a weekend off now, and then the two final races of 2021 on the first two weekends in December, in Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi. Don't forget your predictions!
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  2. Finally! Cracked it. There is a whole instruction missing from the method. I now have no brake and full linear throttle, no delay and rest is factory setting. I won't go through it all but the fog has gone and all done. Happy now the plane is set up to fly. As ever, many thanks for everyone's help and patience! Phew!
    3 points
  3. Having finished the fuselage I am ready to give it a good sanding and set to start covering - which may be a few days away as once again I have to work.
    2 points
  4. Hi Steven. I built the Cloud Clipper earlier this year. It was a very easy to build kit for anyone with some experience of balsa bashing! All the materials where of good quality and sufficient quantity. I chose the electric version, I added a doubler to the firewall to get the motor further forward but it still needed lead in the nose to get the C of G correct. I also used a 2200 4s lipo stood vertically behind the firewall. I bought mine from Kings Lynn model shop but I see Century UK have them listed. Hope this helps, Bill
    2 points
  5. I agree with the guys suggesting a repair of the HP. Its very doubtful the hardware has gone and its likely a software issue or something like a ram module is not seting correctly. Sometimes the contacts can get dirty even when plugged in so i would whip the ram modules out and reseat them after a clean with some contact cleaner on a tissue. Some compressed air in the ram slots may help purge the dust if there is any. That might fix it, but if the software is already damaged then I would have a go at a reinstall of Win7 on either the same drive or a new SSD. The SSD would help with the speed massively. You could install windows 10 if you want, the windows 7 key on your hp machine will work for 10 as well. It might even have a key built into its bios firmware so i would go for a clean sweep. If you do use 7, update it as far as you can then disable the updates. If you are not doing anything other than workshop stuff on it then it hardly matters if the security is not 100% In terms of keeping old pc's alive all of the computers i put together for the 'new' office at laser are about 10 years old but for our purposes they are more than adequate. One needed a graphics card added recently for our 3d cad package, but beyond that they are unmodified beyond SSD boot drives. All but one run windows 10, and the one on the shop floor uses win 7 as windows 10 will not play well with the remote handheld thing we use for moving programs to and from the various machines. I disabled the auto updates to prevent it installing 10 all on its own. The pc i am writing this post on is made from components about 10 years old and its hooked up to my tv as a media centre. Its got all my dvd movies and box sets copied to it so i can just click a few buttons and access anything i want. I also have a laptop with a dead screen hooked up to a monitor with a few dead pixels in my shed. Both are old and ruined so i dont care if i spill paint and glue all over them. They provide me with music while i work and the ability to look up stuff online if i need to. Keep the old stuff going. Much more ecological than sending it to landfill
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  6. Fuselage is progressing on the LA7, the cowl has been put together from the 3 parts, Richard`s kit instructions suggest cutting the side parts on the edge of your bench, this was a good suggestion I marked the line i was cutting to with masking tape which also held the cowl to the bench, the steel rule could then be pushed up to the masking tape and a stanley knife with a new blade trimmed it nicely, a small amount off each side until it got a nice fit to F1 and F2. The cowl halves were held together on the outside with magic tape and strips of scrap plastic left from cutting the cowl out were glued along the joint using plastic model glue. The fuselage cockpit doors were fitted and sanded to shape, the rear part of the cockpit was cut into the foam decking and the exposed foam was lined with a cut up postcard as the instructions suggest. Sorting out the control snakes now.
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  7. Ahhh, the Flyte 150 saga ? This was when Jon was still in nappies and Neil Tidey was at the helm. 1992 I think ? It was very much plagiarism, by a chap I won't name (initials DH) who took a Laser 150 to the far east somewhere and said "copy this". Neil thought it was hysterical !!! Somebody bought one thinking it was a Laser and sent it to Neil for servicing. He had great fun taking it apart, and brought the bits to the pub to show us for a giggle. It was basically made of aluminium coloured chocolate and the tolerances were a joke. It's supposed "Unique selling point" was that the exhaust came blocked, and you had to decide which end to drill out ! Only one batch was ever made, because surprisingly they didn't fool many people. Unsurprisingly they ran like a bag of old nails. They still turn up occasionally, I saw one for sale at Wings & Wheels this year. It was unused ? Probably a good collectors item now actually !
    2 points
  8. You'll be fine covering, if you put a slight twist in, heat will get it back out.
    1 point
  9. So I went to my local indoor flying meeting today and captured this large Vulcan. What a cracking job the builder has done of it powered by two EDF units and it has working undercarriage. Steve.
    1 point
  10. I suspect Mr Currie might have a prior claim to the "Wot" name! Currie Wot (c1937)
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  11. I maidened an Ohmen for a club mate - who’d assured me that the C of G was as per plan (which wasn’t to hand). I did a quick thumbs job and as it was forward of 1/3 chord I thought it should be fine. It was quite a handful which I was relieved to get back on the ground in one piece and after moving the balance point forwards over a couple of flights, found that it was then just like any other Ohmen…at what turned out to be 25% chord. Basically, on this one, believe the designer - and I would strongly advise against any attempt to go behind the point shown on the plan. I think I recall a very experienced flyer recounting a similar experience on the forum.
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  12. I know the problems with thick stone walls and trying to get any sort of RF transmission through/round them! Our 200 year old cottage has similar issues - I can't imagine why they weren't thought of when they built and added to its construction. Short sighted those Victorians!
    1 point
  13. If you can't clone the existing hard drive or re-install windows, you could install Linux and give that a go, before you spend any money on a new version of Windows. Incidentally the HDD failed on my wifes laptop, it was so broken I couldn't clone it, but after putting in an SSD and creating USB boot drive I was able to reinstall windows 10, which recognised the computer and reinstalled for free. Her laptop is a HP and you had to basically take it all apart to replace the HDD, whereas my Sony Vaio had a separate small one screw panel to get at the HDD so changing that out was about 10x quicker. I also put an SSD in an old desktop while my son was still uni (doing his PhD) and he used his student account to get me a free copy of Windows...................
    1 point
  14. Ok. Tea break over. Time to start some building Here are the laser cut parts and vacuum mouldings. Anybody interested (at a very low price) ?
    1 point
  15. You could try cloning the hdd onto the ssd then activating the recovery partition on the ssd.
    1 point
  16. Can you put a repeater in the roof space or a weatherproof container above it/mounted to the outside of the stone wall and run a cat 5 cable inside from there? A remote aerial might be even easier.
    1 point
  17. Ken - unfortunately the thick stone walls of the outbuildings that house my workshops is too much for the wireless signal from the router. None of my laptops - which all have in-built wireless- nor my mobile. is able to access the wi-fi from inside the outbuildings.
    1 point
  18. leccy,you can buy a dongle for a tenner to convert your pc to wireless,using one of your usb ports...if thats what you were wanting to do using the underground conduit?....you are spoiled for choice in your opening post.... ken anderson./..ne..1...wireless dept.
    1 point
  19. I, too, built one last winter. Nice build, good quality and complete. On a calm day will waft around for ages on a 2200 3S. Nice model. David
    1 point
  20. Leccyflyer, All that I did with mine was to run the exterior cat5 cable along the fence and through the window frame. Crude but It has worked well for some 5 years.
    1 point
  21. Would a pair of powerline adapters solve the remote non wi-fi connection ? It's what I use for my TV.
    1 point
  22. Make sure you get the right one as there are about 5 types. You want a 2.5 inch SATA SSD. For your purposes 120 gig would probably be plenty. You could even keep the old HDD installed for mass storage and just boot from the speedy SSD. Its what i did with my media pc. 120 gig boot drive and 4tb hard drive for all the data. they are so cheap now https://www.ebuyer.com/858271-integral-120gb-v-series-v2-ssd-inssd120gs625v2
    1 point
  23. Who will be the first to make a model of this? Hope they put a scale electric power unit in and not a glow!
    1 point
  24. Had a similar problem with an old laptop running win7. Took the old hdd out, fitted a new ssd and increased the memory, reinstalled windows and drivers and it's working better than ever.
    1 point
  25. Is running a Cat5 exterior cable in a switch or an old router a possible solution for your workshop? That way you can get wifi in there.
    1 point
  26. I suppose it depends on what's crashed. It's most likely the HD as that's a mechanical device. If you have a back-up image of the drive you could try fitting a new HD (I have a 250 GB SSD in my desk top that I use for local back up and cost about £35 IIRC) and restoring from your image. If that doesn't work the SSD could still be useful in another machine as back up or even as the OS drive because of its speed.
    1 point
  27. Why not just re-install win7 on your HP? Computers do not reach the end of their useful lives until the firmware and software will no longer support the hardware. HP have a hdd test utility, read about it here https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/A1PvDgi5ikL.pdf run that from a bootable USB stick to establish if the HDD has any problems and if OK format the disk and reinstall win7, there are plenty of .iso's available. If the HDD is dead then it is a simple and cheap task to replace it.
    1 point
  28. I may have a solution. Problem discussed on the Invision Community Forums. In FireFox turn off Enhanced Tracking Protection for the RCM&E forum site. (How to in the thread linked above). Restart Firefox after making change.
    1 point
  29. I'd already planned a larger nosewheel- about 1cm dia larger - should do the trick - I tested the 5s , really going for it now, it tried to open my bedroom durtains! Thanks again, all, Den, Abertawe.
    1 point
  30. Ok, sanding done and plastic parts have been tried for fit. Had to replace F8 with a new former as the plastic parts on top of the fuselage are a different shape. Check them against the original kit ones and they are a perfect match. Anyway problem solved ! Not very happy with the mouldings. Although they are to original spec, they seem very flimsy. Am having replacements made in thicker material and Eric is going to put some additional strengthening under the fuselage in case of wheel up landings. All in all not a bad model, but I think they rushed it into production and didn't flight test it enough. Eric is happy with it though and has taken it to finish off.
    1 point
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