Don Fry

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.

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

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.

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..

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.

Personally, I would wait for Jon to confirm.

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

I bought a kit. Accurate description, well packed. I would use them again.

Nah, that’s an Over the Shoulder Boulder Holder.

Best wishes mate.

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.

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.

Whom the Gods wish to destroy they first send mad.

Well, England Ireland was tense.

Thank you.

What has the above got to do with hobby king?

I too watch maidens, and drool, blessed with living 40 m from a boat slip on a clean river.

Written on the back of a fag packet. Vapour to deceive. As for the police. A stretched organisation gets to lose 20% of its manpower, social services offloads a load of Mental Health act stuff onto them cos social services can no longer cope. Then the police bosses go mad. That murdering copper in the met had a nickname, “the pervert”. Now I might just spot that as what is technically known as “a clue”. And they spend time doing vacuous hate crime. Also note Zflyer’s comments. oh, and not a political statement, this government has a fair track record of gaps between promise and delivery. Rant over. oh, just remembered, back in the 90s, I worked for a year or so for a home office organisation, National Strategy for Police Information Services. Home office and strategy is a little like relying on a blind man leading troops towards the enemy. Just look a the codswallop of drone licensing. Ranted out.

I’ve got a pot of that, very good glue, and I’ve used it for hinges . Rubbery glue=tough. But, being a bloke wot has been round the block, you know the answer, 5 minutes to make a test piece, dry it for a day, and break it. Then YOU know, one less fail point.

Arrrr, you get to carry eight times more weigh in the material. Ie your basic wing weight has grown by eight times. That’s eight times the power needed. Airfoils don’t scale, but for practical purposes for small changes like this, they still work. For the structures you are looking at, twice the span, twice the chord, 4 times area, 4 times the power needed, 4 times the weight. So spar size old, changes to new is 1.4, square root of two So the new dimensions are the old dimensions times multiplied by 1.4, wot provides an airframe weight IRO 4 times original. All to get something with the same(ish) wing loading.

I’ve used I use this system (cheap quick, good). I abrade the inside of the tube, so it is grease free. Use a longer set epoxy, mixed very carefully, fill the rod hole with epoxy, (a pin to push apply)and fill the masked threads (same pin). I did a test once. Built a test piece . Nothing fancy for units used in the test piece. When cured, hung a 50 kilo lump, no fails, no fails when I tried push pull shock loading. Got bored. Word of warning. Destroy the test piece. I saw it much later, a half finished rudder control arm. COO goes I. Finished it, installed it, and the penny dropped, why a half finished rudder rod. Chastened, made a new one.

Welcome

Arrrrrrrr, but you have planted a set of memories. Normal for adolescents to change. Do you not remember the time when young ladies became alluring to you, and aftershave rather than eau de diesel, became the smell of choice. But still a memory is still there. And they might one day remember.

Copper sheathing is also nice, can buy on internet. Slide it over the workpieces, pull it longer, so it thins in diameter over the workpieces, and solder on. Neat. Another is take a bit of brass tube, slit it lengthways, and open the slit to nearly the diameter one of the wires, so it can be pushed onto the wires you want to join, using the brass as a spring/clamp to pull all together. Then solder. Trick is to pick the right diamerter of tube so it clamps well.

I can braise wire and retemper, father taught me. Ditto silver solder. Sub 7 kg stuff, wot I fly, 60/40 lead/tin, resin solder, scrupulous clean, helped along by resin flux. I think my iron is 150 watts. No fails yet. Note well Martin’s comment, the solder acts like a glue, not a structural component.