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I see that HSD make a 20000 wingspan Cessna .It is powered by a 6s lipo but also you need a 2s 2000 mah lipo to power the radio equipment .Would I have to charge the 2s 2000mah lipo up after every flight or will one charge do several flights. Be a pain if you have to charge up the 2s lipo after every flight .I am sure once you have a fully charge 2s lipo for the radio equipment that would last most off the days flying .I hope so 🤞I am not talking about the 6s lipo you need to power the model .I know that will only last one flight

Do not bother Rocker ,The Eflite 80mm afterburner kit is crap .I have a Eflite 80mm F 16 with the Eflite Afterburner kit and you can not even see it when you take off ,it is so dull. No one notice I had an afterburner kit on my F16 .Any how you will not find any Model shop in the UK that has one in stock .Like all Efite spare parts ,they are becoming harder and harder to obtain in the UK Apart from the fact there are no Eflite Aftermarket kits in the UK ,you would only be wasting your money .Shame we do not have the choice like the USA does with the Goony and RC Geek doing excellent afterburner kits .You could always see if Goony or the RC Geek would send you one from the USA

Someone in our club has brought the Eflite FW 190. Fly and looks great. Thought I need to buy one of them. Then I found out you can not get any spare for the Eflite FW 190 in the UK. Contacted a well know Model shop who confirmed that Horizion Hobby will not ship spares for Eflite models to the UK Contact Horizion Hobby USA and they emailed me saying they do not ship to the UK. So no spares. No props, retract spares nothing. So I brought the Freewing Corsair instead. Just beware if you are thinging of buying any model made by Horizion Hobby. Look up the spares availability first. If you break a prop or damage a retract the model will be unable to fly again due to no spares being in stock

Will the Laser 180 fly models desisned for 30 cc gas engines. Ie the Seagull 30cc Spitfire or the Seagull 30 cc P40 Thunderbolt?????

Yes 5 recycles before flying them. Think I do what I always do and just charge them up and stick them in my EDF and fly them

I have just brought some new lipos for my EDF Jets I normally just charge them up and put them in my EDF and fly. I have now been told by one of our club members not to do that. He said I should charge the new lipos up at least 5 times before putting them in a EDF and flying them. I have never done that before. I just charge up the new lipo and fly them Is he right????

I have tried it on 2 different chargers and get the same reading. To be on the safe side I will retire them. I need an excuse to try out some HRB Lipos ?

Thanks Think it is time to dump those 2 lipos then and replace them

Have 2 6s 40000 lipos and when I check the battery resistance 5 cells had a reading of between 3 and 7 but one cell had a reading of 57 I take it is time to replace these 2 battery. The second lipo had a reading of 5 cell again had a reading of 3 to 7 but again 1 cell had reading of 37

At least Motion RC do carry spare parts for all there models. So whish now I had brought the Freewing 90mm F16 now instead of the Eflite 80mm one with no spare available what so ever

Just had a reply from Horizion Hobby Europe They confirmed they will not ship anything to the UK due to the EU complication. Funny how do all these Horizion Hobby Kits get here then. Be warned if you buy a Horizion Hobby model you will not be able to get any spare parts for then now

Just emailed Horizion Hobby in the USA and ask why they will not back up their model here in the UK by refusing to send spare parts to the UK. Be interesting to see what they say

Just emailed Horizion Hobby in the USA and ask why they will not back up their model here in the UK by refusing to send spare parts to the UK. Be interesting to see what they say

Still waiting on my parcel. It has been stuck at Charles De Gualle airport now for 8 days. Fed Ex are just not up to it. Can not go through this again. Motion RC really need to change there courier but I do not think Motion RC are really interested in the UK market so are not that bothered about the problem

Again rang some well know model shops who do spare parts for models and both told me the just can not get Horizion Hobby to send them any spare parts for the Eflite 80mm F16. They said there is nothing they can do, it is out of there hands. It is not a case of it will take X amount of time to get them from the USA. They just can not get spare parts for the Eflite 80mm F 16 Bear that in mind if you are considering buying the Eflite 80mm F16. My advice is buy the Freewing 90mm F16. Then you can get spare parts for it and it is cheaper. Whish I had done that now. Never going to by an Horizion Hobby model again

Chris w Well there you go. A company that cares about it's customers. Laser are first class and Jon is very helpful even if you want info and it is not a Laser. May be these big companies like Horizion Hobby should look how Laser and Jon treat their customers. They could learn a lot from how Jon/Laser treat customers. Shame a lot more companies do not respect their customers No more Foames for me back to the workshop and start getting out the Balsa ?

So what is the point of spending £600 on a Eflite 80mm F16. Have one heavy landing and that puts the model out of commission because there are no spare parts in the UK. Funny they seem to be able to keep the kits fully stock in the UK but not the spare parts. Rip off comes to mind. They are happy to sell you a £600 kit but can not be bothered to keep spare parts for that kit I have gone back to building my own again. These expensive Foamy EDF are just a cash cow, easy money and once you have brought the kit you are on your own Any one want to buy a Eflite 80mm F16 minus a front landing gear????

Getting fed up All these companies like Eflite and Arrow are promoting their new EDF and pushing you to buy all these nice new EDF, but and in my opinion it is a big but. Both Eflite and Arrow do not back these EDF with spare parts. Try getting spare parts for say Eflite 80mm F 16 or Arrows F15!!!!!! Almost impossible. The only company that surport spare parts for their EDF is Freewing/Motion RC but the down side of trying to get spare parts from Motion RC is they use Fed Ex and they keep loosing my parcels I have stop buying anymore EDF because of this spare part problem ?

It just go from bad to worse with Fed Ex. Been told they can not give me a delivery date on my parcel any more because it is stuck in France A call to Pay Pal again to get my money back Come on Motion RC dump Fed Ex and get a courier who can deliver a parcel with out loosing it

Fed Ex have given me the worst problems. So far no parcel has arrived on time. They lost one parcel completly and their Customer service is abosolutly rubbish. That if you can find someone to talk to!!!!!!!! Their tracking is a complete joke Why oh why do Motion RC continue to use them

Anyone tell me what the Freewing 90mm F4 Phantom fly like. Have several Freewing EDF but been told the F4 Phantom is tricky to fly (that us by someone who has never flown the Freewing Phantom) 6s or 8s???????

Already posted this but posted it in the wrong Thread Will my Laser engines run OK using Optimix 12% fuel instead of using Model Technics Laser fuel .I am finding every time I try a buy some Model technic Laser fuel it is always out of stock ,So thought I would run my Laser engines on the Optimix 12 % instead

Already posted this but posted it in the wrong Thread Anyone tell me if it would OK to run my Laser engines on the Optimix 12% fuel .I have started using this in my Saito 4 stroke engine and want to to buy just one fuel instead of buying one fuel for my Laser engines and a different fuel for my Saito engines Is it OK to run my Laser engines on Optimix 12% .I am finding when I try and buy Model Technis Laser fuel it seems to always be out of stock

Just been on the Optifuel web site and there is no mention of Lasser fuel ?

Just found out about Southern Fuel finishing after this summer .What with Model Technics fuel going to that is both of my option for fuel gone .Now thinking of trying Optifuel Optimix 12% for my four stroke engines .Anyone been using Optifuel 12% can tell me if it is OK for the Saito 120 4 stoke engines and does it run OK .What I am going to do about my Lasser engines I just do not know .Who is going to supply Lasser fuel from now on ???????????????????