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Don Fry

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    DX8 v NX8 ?

    Like this thread, I’m in the same boat, 11 year old Dx9, flawless service.
  2. Not sure about the science of some of that, but hey ho. Standing outside on a breezy day, upwind of the jar, heat it with a blowtorch. Don’t melt the glass. Take care not to burn fingers.
  3. But you still get long chain molecules in a 2 pack. Solvents pick at the end. Heat the things to shorten the chains, more ends to pick at. Non technical, but you see the shape of the argument?
  4. For 2 pack, I would, when the wife is out, put the jar in an oven going flat out. Hot enough for the chain molecules to start breaking down, and give your solvent a key to do its work.
  5. I tried the last, last week. Well dry for a long time, and very hard work.
  6. I would not mess about with much theory. Assemble it, use a cg calculator, balance it and go fly. I’v done a few Frankensteins over the years and no huge surprises.
  7. If you have ever had the pleasure of wandering the streets of a night club area at 4 in the morning, watching the rats and gulls sorting the streets out, makes you realise the reluctance to actually pay people.
  8. After you for the first million flights.
  9. No mate. They are hewn by hand, from seasioned oak, by the coach, using worn out sandpaper, only lubricated by his tears of sorrow.
  10. Mid airs, if had two, both times 2 aircraft up. 1. Bloke spun down from high, I wandered under him. 2. Bloke pulled humoungous loop, and took the tail off mine at the end of it, as I innocently wandered along. That one was slightly funny, the tail stayed on long enough to start turning to land. Then it fell off. Both times agreed anticlock circuits.
  11. I’d say then, unless you wish to endlessly crash, repair, replace, join a club for a bit, learn on a buddy lead. The muscle memories don’t come as quickly as we age. Getting the thing off the ground is easy. Putting it down again, in oneish piece isn’t so easy. Then you then wish to go it alone, your choise.
  12. Before we start arguing, Enquisiter, welcome. What’s the aircraft? And can you fly it, any experience, past or current? And how old are you
  13. Also give the eye checker a stress test, age related paternalism is common. I’ve had the comment frequently, “but you have very good vision, Mr Fry (sometimes even with “for your age”). A simple statement “my eyes are better than that”, perhaps repeated, gets better vision. Sad but true. Remember, stuff like flying, shooting, trains your systems, and you know what you can see, with the correct lens in front of the eye.
  14. Look on the bright side Jon, bet you are in for less hassle. I have had a cogitate and I reckon, I am engined for life so I will survive..
  15. Or more to the point, how many machine gun bullets do you need when the population of Bangladesh up sticks, and go somewhere else. Or how hard do you fight, when the next country upriver decide to increase extraction in a drought, and your water supply disappears.
  16. Personally, I would wait for Jon to confirm.
  17. Look on E bay, Chinese sites. Couple of quid gets you an 0.1 gram, max 500g electric balance. Then you can weigh stuff accurately. There is a law of chemistry, the rate a reaction proceeds doubles for every 10°C rise in temperature
  18. I bought a kit. Accurate description, well packed. I would use them again.
  19. Mind Paul, I moved to France in 2006. Since then, I’ve had doing 12000 km a year, far more punctures per year than I ever had in the Uk, where I probably averaged 60,000 km. Mostly screws. Tradesmen being careless.
  20. Toto, life is a measure of planning time, and reward, and of course creative thinking. Life has too few hours, it a fact, as an Irishman would wisely say, “Can’t cure, endure” Now winter in the UK is when you pull your weight, earn and store brownie points. Creative thinking, the laminated knife blocks I made her. Crowning glory, her new VW Transporter hippy Europe explorer, boat hauler. Also has removable quarter scale fully rigged biplane racks.
  21. Whom the Gods wish to destroy they first send mad.
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