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Rich Griff

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  1. Small phones that will fit in a pocket.... Where is the street cred and status symbol in that ? Sprayed on jeans and the £500 fashion accessory just asking to be nicked or bent... I keep my cheapo Tesco phone well hidden and secure.
  2. Thanks rich, that's even more of an encouragement..... Yes your vidio shows a beautifull bit of coastline, north cornish coast ? National trust site ? These sorts of places need to become known about by bmfa so they can be protected for this activity, but the models have/uses Motors ? Cilan is national trust all the way round I believe ? I did contact NT in a very general enquiry about a site quite local to me but got no reply at all. Maybe I should contact Andy Symon for his/bmfa view and take on the site of interest... A bag of sweets for later in the year I feel.
  3. Also, is there a ripmax sticker, price on box, and any indication as to year ? When was the more or less transition year from loop scavenge deflector piston type to shnerle porting type for model 2t glow engines, late 70's...? Cox engines were made in their millions way before the 70's.....did they know something os did not ? Or is a Cox bb 049 a baffleless loop scavenge type engine ? I will ask on cef... Model diesel ( ci ) engines had already gone down the shnerle route many years before, possibly from the very beginning, apart from fixed compression types ??? Shnerle porting had been about for some time in the non model engine world at that time...the late 70's......
  4. East riding, a few miles from the coast... Sounds idilic GG, firm sand large skied deserted beaches with good tall sand dune systems ? God how I wish I was living "back home", but the reasons for relocating were very valid at the time. Please god, just enough of a lottery win, I would be a good voluntarily church warden etc.. Oh, and a jet pack to attend to the church clock hands, they were stuck at 10:55 last time I was there....
  5. Bin it !!!!!! ? No.......!!!!!!!!!! Yes, Barton site, or give it to mikeq...... The box says RC ? If not, ( strangled exhaust ? ) The inlet casting looks as if it could be Rc'd relatively easily ? Don't bin it, giving it to someone ( even for a fiver ) who would use it, makes much better sense, to me at any rate.
  6. Keep the faith toto, you will get there, etc....
  7. In the vidio, the planes were flown rather low down the "gentelish" slope but enough lift was present to gain hieght reliably... My local slope is about as about as gentle but cilan headland is basically coastal cliffs, a little peninsula if you like near end of the llyn near bardsey. Bags of lift there, fantastic slope soaring site. Well worth the visit. Lovely air, lovely views, lovely people, lovely model flying.
  8. The Cream..... Perhaps a more basic ( less to go wrong ! ?? ) 3 channel motor glider and/or a sloper version, kit or all hand made, may have been a better introduction, but toto seems time poor and sufficiently cash rich... In this hobby you have to have the mentality that you may be taking home your model in a bin bag, or warming your self by a "Viking funeral" at the field. I have been known to drag broken models from the flying field bin, to fly again, but I was time rich and cash poor at the time. Yes, laugh, better than crying, like the chap who watched his beautifull large vintage soarer, which must have taken at least 100 hours to make, serenely and rock steady float out over hell's mouth on its way to bardsey ......." No control, *!1t ! " He said........ We completely lost sight of it after about 5 mins. I do reckon it landed on bardsey. Keep the faith toto, you will get there. Get at least two foamies up and running reliably, then spend some time on your force engine to learn reliable setting up and installation In your reliably reconned " arising star" was it, and fly the socks off that as well. I still think a basic sloper is the best way into this hobby, but of course you need a slope. Mine was cilan headland ( thanks mum in law, 50 ish miles from home ) then egryn abbey ( thanks robin ) slope by the rabbit Warren, about 3 miles from home, crusader r + e 72inch veneered foam wings, cheapest kit at the time. I still have a pair of wings and the plan. Fancy making a "my home brew" toto, minimum balsa and covering, r + e, a good week of two hours per evening ? Sloper, small electric ( 3 channel, George's 4 Max value pack ) or small IC ( 3 channel ), even a bungee or towed launch.... These days, electric powered, but the battery is heavy.... Anyways, keep plugging away toto, problem solving makes you stronger and more experienced, have a great day. Ps, does bachmann mean anything to you by chance ?
  9. Rubbing off the numbers on the back of your bank card, good idea...number easy to remember, easy to write down and store is your secret place at home, hidden in plain sight.
  10. I think quite a few of us are eagerly awaiting the plans and article on these two models that fly well from a slope etc.. For myself smaller models are a better option these days but I still have a few larger ones...
  11. Defy the gods, no!!!!!!!!!? Sometimes a " please god..." works wonders, or is that a double diamond ?
  12. You really are having a run of bad luck toto. See the "shifty" thread, particularly the vidio..... When things get you down a bit toto, walk away, close the shed door and de-stress with a js and a jps.....tommorrow is a new day.
  13. Dog collar with "shocker" and camera all controlled by the phone ? 😁 Disgusting, collect it and put it thru the dog owners letterbox.....
  14. £6 an hour ! Blimmey, £60 an hour in our "community" sports hall for " special activities".....😭 I know why, any function in the sports hall/community centre means the rooms will need cleaning ( even if cleaned by the group making the mess ) and servicing, meaning the staff will have to actually do some work. Complaints have gone in from variouse parties but never make it past "the committee'.... Upset one person in the village, you effectively upset HALF the village ! £6 an hour, real bargain, even £6 per hour per person is not that expensive.
  15. Hi Andy, which particular plan/issue of rcme ? Some rcme free plans just don't interest me.....so may be available.... Plan in outerzone ? Over to you sir, and others....
  16. Hi burls, Visit ransomes website for exploded views of parts book, also get a wiring diagram... Again, flywheel mag, flywheel mag with cb points, CDI ignition system, dead man handle..... Can you gain access to flywheel area, any windows in flywheel to see what's underneath perhaps ? Electric start, reg/rec ? Reg/rec.....regulator/rectifier..... I take it she will NOT start/run.... Side valve, ohv, ohc ??? Seven years is well long enought for stuff it stick, like VALVES, but you have been cranking it ( and no doubt the air has been "blue" from time to time 😃 ) so if damage was to be done, it's probably done now. Any compression, does engine have very tight spots/horrible noises ? Can you get acitone locally ? Enjoy and remember, a "please god....' can work miracles sometimes...😸
  17. Hi Sam, come back with brief progress etc. When you are ready. Rcme, radio control models ( of all types ? But mainly flying ones ) and electronics ( related to RC models, mainly flying ones ) .....
  18. Wwww, sounds interesting Peter, another thing to chase up in library on Monday. Thanks in advance...
  19. Absolutely.... Maybe a thread all of its own, but some will only moan. Maybe for a different forum perhaps... The kit is probably only as good as the programmers imagination/experience... The programmer probably never ever considered the possibility of two insulated wires ever contacting each other, in real life, when it rains... The dam car would even dead lock us in the car on occasion. Thank god the rear passenger windows were mechanical and not electrical ! Nice car we like but effectively priced off the road, insurance rip off.
  20. Hi toto, never be afraid to ask ! Have a great day, the white stuff has disappeared here only to be replaced by the wet stuff, grrrrrrrrrrrr
  21. Is the Helo the Medi Helo, the bo 105 ? It's great isn't it ! Rcme mag.... Manon rules... Adverts equals Manon,,,perhaps ? Of course, my joining of the dots may produce a completely incorrect picture.
  22. I must say that the app and hardware available these days for clever phones, costing very little money, that can interigate and change modern computer cars systems, is fantastic really. Equivalent to a rolling road....in your hand ( as a passenger ! ). Having said that, fault codes can be very misleading... Is there an app to make a phone a tachometer ?
  23. Morton's email about wanting to make the mags better....on my mobile phone. I wonder what my reply told them.
  24. You have to "swipe" the screen in modern mobile phones to gain access etc. etc. etc ..... I saw s young lad ( 3 year old ) and his mum in the library some time ago. The lad had a kids book in his hand and was swiping the pages and shaking/ moving the book about as if it was a mobile and hunting a signal...... The amount of expensive phones I see sticking out of sprayed on jeans back pockets....do those phones bend ? Even kids out in Africa have mobile phones.... Yes they are very usefull ( researching a decibel meter app ), excellent camera and microphone etc. But not a status symbol to me. My first mobile phone I still have and it still works, not used as priced out by a greedy phone company that I had been with since 1986 I think it was, a reverse robin hood. I am using my second cheapo Tesco phone, the battery died on the first. I do not need an all singing all dancing mobile, but one that can talk to a laptop ( freebee old dell Inspiron with mint software ) for the larger screen would be better. We are all different....but please think of the planet, only recycle your phone when you have to rather than fashion etc..
  25. Yep, terrorists taking out the cell masts using drones no doubt. Still, jobs for us a "fighters" taking out the baddy drones perhaps....now that would be fun.
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