Don Fry

Arthur, you say “Hardly anyone wants the end of ICE cars, yet it will all end in 2030 or 2035.” Might I ask the source of that statement. I’ve just had a wade through the internet and can’t find much support for it. It seems younger drivers don’t, and a German study refutes it. I have no hat in that argument, but I like statistics to be bearers of truth rather than prevarication's to deceive

Not the sub zero degree version.

I used to keep a log of what equipment is in each model, so after an arrival, if fit to use again( judgement) the arrival was recorded, and also maintainence schedules. I stopped doing it, with some regrets.

I used to pee on mine to defrost the windscreen. And before you lot start thinking fire engines, as in stand on the bonnet and pee. I also liked the automatic ashtray. No door sill so the fag ends fell out as they accumulated. Not a dainty girlfriend magnet.

Try a bolting horse, spooked, Toto. Or said toy hitting a bike rider, or causing a fall trying to get out of the way. Public spaces are public, and the definition of where is safe has a lot to do with the space, a lot to do with skill levels, and in particular where to crash the model if needed. Read John Stones post,

Toto, nose wheels have hard lives. Lock it straight. One less failure point next weekend. If you have that much time make chutney. It’s a trainer, one job. No complexity.

Re nose wheel steering on a primary Trainer, Toto, and a foam jobbie to boot, I would say, an unrequired complexity. Point it into wind, open it up, and the rudder will hold it into wind as soon as it’s moving. Fly, land, charge, point fly….. Just anchor it straight ahead. Game of blood, KISS applies. As a stress reliever, learn to make chutney. You will never touch that turnip chutney you all seem to be addicted for cheese sarnies again.

Future, I use Matt doculam. To get water based paint to stick my experiments suggest it needs a scrub with solvent after covering to get rid of (I assume) a manufacturering coating. Not my game, but there is a whole science based on altering the surface of things to allow coating to stick, or not stick. I find acetone, or 100% isopropanol works. There may be better solvents out there. Thank you Sam, I’ll try a bit of that, I’m just doing a new big hack, and I’m going for a semi naked wacky look.

E bay only do fakes nowadays. The other day, I was on page 5, every one a fake, then I got bored.

I was an early adopter (forced) of mobile phones. I used to do crime scene management. My job, I signed off a strategy with the senior detective, and set about doing it. It was subject to alteration. I could be reached every 2.5 hours, when I left the crime scene, pee, tea, return. For the entire 16 hour day, with a two 20 minute meal breaks. Day after day. Mobiles arrived, instant contact, don’t care what you are doing, don’t care I’ve not thought about it, want this altered, or not. Now you get one chance to get a crime scene right, and that’s it. After a few too many, a phone was accidenty dropped one in a pond, another, 3rd floor window, another, reversed a van over it. So sorry. Spikey got silence to work. I note, the 20 year olds regard it as rude to phone someone without clearing it first. I note, old scotes take the Michael. I see the same 20 year olds point. That said, I have a nice smartphone, it does not ring much, because I have a high filter as to who gets the number. I don’t use it much, best bit, my recipe books on it, and I see something nice, can pick up the other ingredients. Also, train the voice recognition AI, the keyboard is redundant. But it still earns it keep. Really good basic camera, music, plant ID apps, maps ( saved me today when the dog led me miles into an unfamiliar wood), world class voice controlled timer, and all sorts. But it’s a serious tool, not sumot to fritter a brain away.

As Paul says. Remember the motors you run need risk assessment. A cooking 40 can get in the car and drive to casualty. A 55 and I can’t. Competent includes experience of casualty treatment. Also nice to know for electrics. At least Ic motors stop as they chew into fingers. Jon (laser engines)has a load of carb tuning advice, also tank positioning. what to do is easy; Install a motor in good condition correctly with a reasonable prop tank and pipes ditto good fuel, and knowing how to look after it. good air supply good cooling reliable ignition source. Set the carb for that installation And there lies a lot of pitfalls. I’m used to motors. I do the above, and I achieve reliability similar but perhaps not quite as good as electric power, but without laying out on new motors after a bit of lawn darting.

I’ve got this I don’t want. It’s off a modern JP Panic, unbent or damaged. The key ring on string is for the rubber band track tensioner. But, it’s in France. Getting it to the UK is a slow process this time of year, and I’m not in the UK until late spring, as the doctors have got me for some pre planned repairs. One evan had the cheek to say, “now you are in our grip,,,,,”. But saying that it is in the way, and I don’t think I’ll build more Panics.

It’s a serious issue for longevity of the cell, as it warms from full volts to room temperature, the cell volts go up. Cells hate overcharge volts. This is not a new issue, there are threads all over the internet, discussing storage temperature, and charge temperatures. Me, charge/store/discharge in workshop, take precautions, see loads of threads, fire suppression strategies. Store in workshop. Lazy, perhaps. I might say eliminates senile mistakes, where the disaster, ie idiot set the charger wrong, has already covered that bet. Crystal memory is the term psychologists use. For younger readers, read daft for senile. Ignore crystal memory, you haven't got it yet.

I’ve used a loop of string to make up deficient length in the past.

When and with what technology is that ever going to happen, if scrotes rob drivers, scam deliveries, et al, hitting a drone from anti drone shot, out of a home made shotgun, is child play. Easier than nicking Whiskey from Tesco. Also God help the drone trying to manoeuvre to lower its load into the designated delivery point, when it fails to spot a higher than expected wire, or indeed when SWMBOs new underwear explodes under the shock, the chance that SWMBO reorders after being told by Amazon it was ( ie the debris) delivered.

Not my turn to try this yet, but if I was doing this in glass, I would have a 3inch radiator roll to hand, and roll the paper out, chuck the foam roller after use. Then heat to stick it down.

Arrr Bas, never saw that, now I’m fixating on it. Looks like a “I like cookies button”.

Martin, why can’t a charger put a life cell to storage. The cell voltage does drop across the normal discharge range of the cell, about 0.2 Volts across a cell between the start and end of the flat bidder bit of the curve, and that’s not an unmeasurable voltage. I’m curious rather than stating your wrong. I’ve also killed a few forgetting Failover switches are not on/off switches.

It’s gone, once accepted and free. I’m off the glue balsawood.

Also HMRC havnt yet got round business expenses. Charge me, I’m claiming for an element of office space, phones, internet, hardware purchases, car allowance…….they want those who make serious money, not pin money as part of a hobby.

Lipo man, I don’t see why your predicament is a cause of humour. In poor taste. i expect that’s a steam iron. Fill with deionised water, turn knob to steam setting, and start irioning something rough, hessian sacking or similar. The glue will not last long. any way this factination with ladies clothing is disturbing. Nothing like the concept of being a furry, different ball game. woof.

Toto. Many years ago I had a tutor. His view of anger management. The pond life (his words) before you just started a timer. You just hang onto reality. One day, you will be able to hit the stop button, if you wish. Cynical, of course. Also try to shoot holes in it as a stress less life enabler, and reward giver.

Is that Bruce the

Toto, straight advice, last year was abysmal for weather. This winter is shaping up to be no different. My river had the cheek to visit the workshop. Nearly twice, but certainly once . There are trees down. . I can fly in it, been doing it longer than most people have been on this earth. But chose not, much of the time. You have therefore been dealt a losers hand, accept it, patience, patience and you will prevail. Sicilian proverb often misquoted, vengeance is a dish best tasted cold, is better translated, a dish that tastes better cold. Patience.

Yes! but it blocks my view of the Morton’s Media advert John.