Member postings for Steven Shaw

I bought some of these from Banggood, but the slot are way too narrow for my servo mounting tabs, otherwise they are very nice and I plan on modifying them or the mounting tabs for another project.

Hi - welcome to the forum, is this the link you posted? Your link doesn't work for me.

Hot Pot 54

When I built my first plane I found this article and have followed OPTION 2 on all my builds

Aileron Servo mtg

Edited By Steven Shaw on 06/10/2019 15:27:02

Thanks Mark - I missed, or forgot, seeing it in that issue.

Can anyone tell me what plane David is holding in the Autumn special edition?

I found 1/4 scale dummy engine plans for homemade balsa version at "The cubden.org" and printed the pdf at 66% so that I can make one. **LINK**

Using saddle clamps rather than epoxy will allow the horizontal section of the wire to act as a torsion bar.

I also use one of my Tx switches for "throttle cut" and have covered it with some Red heat shrink.

I set up the Spectrum Tx as per the manual

I also am very careful to keep my hands out of the prop arc.

This is one I have used

pdf to dxf converter

Ken - to the side of your post, just above there is a picture of you. Just under the picture it says 241 posts. Click on that to see all your posts on this site.

I could hear the people in the basket tailing.

My local hobby shop usually has the last three month in the racks, maybe check yours out. I'm building this plane and when I went in for wheels last week they still had 3 copies of the June issue.

I also dislike the new viewer. My main problem is loosing the "Print" function. I've built several planes from the free plans and like to print the articles that go with them. The article is the only building instructions for the plans other than the forum thread, and some of those are getting pretty thin these days. The 3D view can be very helpful at times.

With the old printer you could print the page or save it as a pdf, which is very handy as then you can enlarge it and print it at a bigger scale.

My FMS 3S fans tested at:

559 grams thrust

33.8 amps

351.5 watts

10.4 volts

I found that a 2200 battery had a very very large frontal area and blocked too much of the airflow, even a 1800 is big.

I think his newer designs with the large side inlets and the battery out of the airflow will be a much better design.

Edited By Steven Shaw on 24/07/2019 11:50:59

Beautiful plane Martin, I hope mine turns out as nice. Was it very tough to do the covering around the leading edge with the slat mounts glued on?

Glyn - Sullivan also sell a very handy little TOOL that makes installing and removing the clips very easy.

I used "Crystal Clear Gorilla Tape"

Gorilla Tape

In a LORD engine mount system there would also be a metal tube inside the mount so that you can torque the bolt  properly.

Edited By Steven Shaw on 06/07/2019 13:29:49

Yes - you want to completely isolate the firewall from the engine mounting screw.

Hi Dwain - I've received my pilot, now I just have to lengthen his torso and repaint him to look more like a bush pilot.