[RCSE] Los Banos 2006 Scale Sailplane Event next weekend
Next weekend April 22 - 23, 2006 will be the 13th annual Los Banos Scale event. In spite of the unusually heavy rains, the site is in good condition, it just needs a good mowing, which the Park Rangers will take care of this week. We are expecting a good turnout, and with the weather outlook becoming drier there should be excellent soaring, (and cross your fingers) good wind for slope soaring. Come on out and soar! Bruce DeVisser South Bay Soaring Society www.sbss.org RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
[RCSE] Re: Need a wing joiner rod for Dodgeson Windsong
This plane is almost fully restored, and wouldn't you know it, the wing rod has gone missing, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don;t have measurements at the moment, but if you know you have a rod to spare, I'll buy it off of you. That usually makes the missing part reappear, buying it's replacement:-P
Re: [RCSE] Push Rods
Hey now, Maybe you're using the wrong flux? Rosin flux won't work, you need acid flux to sloder to steel. Don't get your electronics close to it though, corrosion city! RobII *'`'*.,.*'`'*.,.*'`'*.,.*'`'*.,.*'`'*.,.*'`'*.,.*'`'*.,.*'`'*.,.* [EMAIL PROTECTED] Erica Frank Rob Carter II I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. --The Chink On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Shape wrote: I'm working on a new plane that has.080 steel push rods and they don't seem to solder well. I have sanded them, fluxed them and all the solder does is bead up. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong. Jerry RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
FW: [RCSE] Graupner Winch #2 - The rest of the story
OK, since the original This sounds interesting popped-up on RCSE, I thought I'd share my first Huh...Where'd that tree come from experience with everyone. I'm sure parts of it will give somebody a chuckle... ~Sheldon-YNT~ PS: Sailplanes can be so cruel sometimes...G This is kinda' long and I may have missed some of the details but here are the salient points: 1. Rewire my Graupner winch for the new Clipper footswitch I got from Injoy 2. Winch doesn't work (strike 1), better go to Erie have Reece look at it to make sure it was wired right (it was)...Besides, we can fly (what an excuse!) 3. Plan on leaving at 6:30am, left almost an hour later (strike 2) 4. Get to Reece Mindy's, Reece applies power to winch in launch position, magic smoke starts escaping (never a good sign) 5. Follow Reece to airport, start setting up his winch 6. Drive Mindy's van and mine down the far side of the runway, reeling out line... 1. Sheldon: That should be enough 2. Reece: Nawww...I want it all out 3. Sheldon: It's pretty soft out here...That should be enough for us 4. Reece: All of it, besides, it's drier up ahead 5. Sheldon: OK...You da' boss 7. Less than 10 seconds later...Reece has Mindy's van stuck...Damn! (strike 3) 8. Reece, gets out, checks decides I should give him a little nudge to get him going 9. BIG mistake! Now my van is stuck as well...Damn, damn, damn! (strike 4...NOTE: we should have known by this time...(sigh)...) 10. Airport manager lives on-field...Uhhh Mark, We've got BOTH vans stuck, can you pull us out with your 4wd? Sure no problem don' t go down there again, it's too soft (Like we don't know this now???) 11. Mark pulls both vans out of the muck, we finish setting the winch. At this point it would be prudent to mention that we are now positioned appx where Sheldon had said earlier that's should be enough (as noted above) 12. A bit of confusion setting up the retriever...A phone call solves that puzzle 13. Wind is blowing about 10-13, with gusts upwards of 17. We launch...A short but adequate flight, add a couple of click of down to keep the speed upwind, with a landing that is not too bad, although somewhat distant. Put in several short flights with the Soprano, a couple of pop-offs included, something is still not right with the retriever. 14. Damn, that last landing I slowed it down too much, hooked the wing tip landing it! (strike 5) 15. OK, we think we have the retriever problem resolved, lets launch again 16. Launch again...Pop-off...A LOT lower than before, and Reece says just fly straight-out 17. I think he means fly straight-out until I get some speed up (he actually meant land it straight-out) 18. I've got airspeed, so I swing downwind, intending to just make an approach land, start to make my upwind turn for final...No rudder! 19. Then all of a sudden I have rudder, but it's too late...By about 10 feet, and the Soprano is in a tree...Damn, damn, damn! (strike 6) 20. We make the hike across the field look up...WOW! It's REALLY in there good...flew right into the crotch of a limb that extends straight-out into the flight path, with branches capturing it top, bottom, etc. Then we look down, the trees are in the middle of a bog, nasty! Now there's dry land on either side of the trees, but the tree itself is in the middle of the bog! (strike 7) 21. Weight a line, trying to get it over the fuselage (maybe we can pull it backwards to free it???). After MANY attempts, we do get a line over it, but no dice, this is not going well. This is not happening! 22. Reece calls his buddy Jay (who lives on-site) and says Hey! Get you ass out of bed come help us get an airplane out of a tree at the east end of the runway!) 23. Jay shows up about 20 minutes later, looks, says no problem, proceeds to walk a fallen tree to the other dry side. 24. Reece spies a deer stand against a tree about 50' away...Hey Jay, wait a minute...We got a deer stand ladder down there! So we go retrieve it and get it across to Jay. Reece says go get your radio, Jay says if he gets to it he'll just toss it and we can fly it down... get me a bottle of water out of the van too. 25. Go to the van by the time I get back, Jay is already up in the tree almost to the plane (How the hell did he do that???) 26. Jay is at the plane, gets it loose, says: How hard do I have to throw this? Reece says it takes nothin'! Jay: OK, but I'll have to throw it with the wing on the diagonal, I can't throw it flat. Reece: Just toss it! 27. Now you have to picture Jay, perched precariously out on a (not very substantial limb), with a 10' glider, in a 12mph wind, trying to throw it out of the tree, with one wingtip at a 45 degree angle up, at about a 45 degree angle to the wind. Surely this thing is gonna blow right over!!! 28.
Re: [RCSE] Graupner Winch #2 - The rest of the story
Sheldon, I guess the real question is. Did you have fun? See Ya , Pat McCleave Wichita, KS - Original Message - From: Sheldon-YNT uDesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RCSE soaring@airage.com Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 10:23 AM Subject: FW: [RCSE] Graupner Winch #2 - The rest of the story OK, since the original This sounds interesting popped-up on RCSE, I thought I'd share my first Huh...Where'd that tree come from experience with everyone. I'm sure parts of it will give somebody a chuckle... ~Sheldon-YNT~ PS: Sailplanes can be so cruel sometimes...G This is kinda' long and I may have missed some of the details but here are the salient points: 1. Rewire my Graupner winch for the new Clipper footswitch I got from Injoy 2. Winch doesn't work (strike 1), better go to Erie have Reece look at it to make sure it was wired right (it was)...Besides, we can fly (what an excuse!) 3. Plan on leaving at 6:30am, left almost an hour later (strike 2) 4. Get to Reece Mindy's, Reece applies power to winch in launch position, magic smoke starts escaping (never a good sign) 5. Follow Reece to airport, start setting up his winch 6. Drive Mindy's van and mine down the far side of the runway, reeling out line... 1. Sheldon: That should be enough 2. Reece: Nawww...I want it all out 3. Sheldon: It's pretty soft out here...That should be enough for us 4. Reece: All of it, besides, it's drier up ahead 5. Sheldon: OK...You da' boss 7. Less than 10 seconds later...Reece has Mindy's van stuck...Damn! (strike 3) 8. Reece, gets out, checks decides I should give him a little nudge to get him going 9. BIG mistake! Now my van is stuck as well...Damn, damn, damn! (strike 4...NOTE: we should have known by this time...(sigh)...) 10. Airport manager lives on-field...Uhhh Mark, We've got BOTH vans stuck, can you pull us out with your 4wd? Sure no problem don' t go down there again, it's too soft (Like we don't know this now???) 11. Mark pulls both vans out of the muck, we finish setting the winch. At this point it would be prudent to mention that we are now positioned appx where Sheldon had said earlier that's should be enough (as noted above) 12. A bit of confusion setting up the retriever...A phone call solves that puzzle 13. Wind is blowing about 10-13, with gusts upwards of 17. We launch...A short but adequate flight, add a couple of click of down to keep the speed upwind, with a landing that is not too bad, although somewhat distant. Put in several short flights with the Soprano, a couple of pop-offs included, something is still not right with the retriever. 14. Damn, that last landing I slowed it down too much, hooked the wing tip landing it! (strike 5) 15. OK, we think we have the retriever problem resolved, lets launch again 16. Launch again...Pop-off...A LOT lower than before, and Reece says just fly straight-out 17. I think he means fly straight-out until I get some speed up (he actually meant land it straight-out) 18. I've got airspeed, so I swing downwind, intending to just make an approach land, start to make my upwind turn for final...No rudder! 19. Then all of a sudden I have rudder, but it's too late...By about 10 feet, and the Soprano is in a tree...Damn, damn, damn! (strike 6) 20. We make the hike across the field look up...WOW! It's REALLY in there good...flew right into the crotch of a limb that extends straight-out into the flight path, with branches capturing it top, bottom, etc. Then we look down, the trees are in the middle of a bog, nasty! Now there's dry land on either side of the trees, but the tree itself is in the middle of the bog! (strike 7) 21. Weight a line, trying to get it over the fuselage (maybe we can pull it backwards to free it???). After MANY attempts, we do get a line over it, but no dice, this is not going well. This is not happening! 22. Reece calls his buddy Jay (who lives on-site) and says Hey! Get you ass out of bed come help us get an airplane out of a tree at the east end of the runway!) 23. Jay shows up about 20 minutes later, looks, says no problem, proceeds to walk a fallen tree to the other dry side. 24. Reece spies a deer stand against a tree about 50' away...Hey Jay, wait a minute...We got a deer stand ladder down there! So we go retrieve it and get it across to Jay. Reece says go get your radio, Jay says if he gets to it he'll just toss it and we can fly it down... get me a bottle of water out of the van too. 25. Go to the van by the time I get back, Jay is already up in the tree almost to the plane (How the hell did he do that???) 26. Jay is at the plane, gets it loose, says: How hard do I have to throw this? Reece says it takes nothin'! Jay: OK, but I'll have to throw it with the wing on the diagonal, I can't throw it flat. Reece: Just toss it! 27. Now you have to picture Jay, perched precariously out on a (not very substantial limb), with a 10' glider, in a 12mph wind, trying to throw it out of the
Re: [RCSE] Graupner Winch #2 - The rest of the story
It's like getting up at 4 am driving 2 hours and then trudging 5 miles into the woods in 20 degree temperatures and sitting still for 8 or more hours waiting for a deer or turkey. You manage to see one or two, but never within range. Then trudging out and driving back home for a good 16 hour day. You know that home is the best thing ever and this makes you really appreciate it. You of course have to tell the wife you had a great time... - Original Message - From: Pat McCleave [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: RCSE soaring@airage.com Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 12:19 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Graupner Winch #2 - The rest of the story Sheldon, I guess the real question is. Did you have fun? See Ya , Pat McCleave Wichita, KS - Original Message - From: Sheldon-YNT uDesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RCSE soaring@airage.com Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 10:23 AM Subject: FW: [RCSE] Graupner Winch #2 - The rest of the story OK, since the original This sounds interesting popped-up on RCSE, I thought I'd share my first Huh...Where'd that tree come from experience with everyone. I'm sure parts of it will give somebody a chuckle... ~Sheldon-YNT~ PS: Sailplanes can be so cruel sometimes...G This is kinda' long and I may have missed some of the details but here are the salient points: 1. Rewire my Graupner winch for the new Clipper footswitch I got from Injoy 2. Winch doesn't work (strike 1), better go to Erie have Reece look at it to make sure it was wired right (it was)...Besides, we can fly (what an excuse!) 3. Plan on leaving at 6:30am, left almost an hour later (strike 2) 4. Get to Reece Mindy's, Reece applies power to winch in launch position, magic smoke starts escaping (never a good sign) 5. Follow Reece to airport, start setting up his winch 6. Drive Mindy's van and mine down the far side of the runway, reeling out line... 1. Sheldon: That should be enough 2. Reece: Nawww...I want it all out 3. Sheldon: It's pretty soft out here...That should be enough for us 4. Reece: All of it, besides, it's drier up ahead 5. Sheldon: OK...You da' boss 7. Less than 10 seconds later...Reece has Mindy's van stuck...Damn! (strike 3) 8. Reece, gets out, checks decides I should give him a little nudge to get him going 9. BIG mistake! Now my van is stuck as well...Damn, damn, damn! (strike 4...NOTE: we should have known by this time...(sigh)...) 10. Airport manager lives on-field...Uhhh Mark, We've got BOTH vans stuck, can you pull us out with your 4wd? Sure no problem don' t go down there again, it's too soft (Like we don't know this now???) 11. Mark pulls both vans out of the muck, we finish setting the winch. At this point it would be prudent to mention that we are now positioned appx where Sheldon had said earlier that's should be enough (as noted above) 12. A bit of confusion setting up the retriever...A phone call solves that puzzle 13. Wind is blowing about 10-13, with gusts upwards of 17. We launch...A short but adequate flight, add a couple of click of down to keep the speed upwind, with a landing that is not too bad, although somewhat distant. Put in several short flights with the Soprano, a couple of pop-offs included, something is still not right with the retriever. 14. Damn, that last landing I slowed it down too much, hooked the wing tip landing it! (strike 5) 15. OK, we think we have the retriever problem resolved, lets launch again 16. Launch again...Pop-off...A LOT lower than before, and Reece says just fly straight-out 17. I think he means fly straight-out until I get some speed up (he actually meant land it straight-out) 18. I've got airspeed, so I swing downwind, intending to just make an approach land, start to make my upwind turn for final...No rudder! 19. Then all of a sudden I have rudder, but it's too late...By about 10 feet, and the Soprano is in a tree...Damn, damn, damn! (strike 6) 20. We make the hike across the field look up...WOW! It's REALLY in there good...flew right into the crotch of a limb that extends straight-out into the flight path, with branches capturing it top, bottom, etc. Then we look down, the trees are in the middle of a bog, nasty! Now there's dry land on either side of the trees, but the tree itself is in the middle of the bog! (strike 7) 21. Weight a line, trying to get it over the fuselage (maybe we can pull it backwards to free it???). After MANY attempts, we do get a line over it, but no dice, this is not going well. This is not happening! 22. Reece calls his buddy Jay (who lives on-site) and says Hey! Get you ass out of bed come help us get an airplane out of a tree at the east end of the runway!) 23. Jay shows up about 20 minutes later, looks, says no problem, proceeds to walk a fallen tree to the other dry side. 24. Reece spies a deer stand against a tree about 50' away...Hey Jay, wait a minute...We got a deer stand ladder down there! So we go retrieve it
RE: [RCSE] Graupner Winch #2 - The rest of the story
You bet Is there any way not to have fun with a sailplane? G -Original Message- From: Pat McCleave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 12:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: RCSE Subject: Re: [RCSE] Graupner Winch #2 - The rest of the story Sheldon, I guess the real question is. Did you have fun? See Ya , Pat McCleave Wichita, KS - Original Message - From: Sheldon-YNT uDesign [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: RCSE soaring@airage.com Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 10:23 AM Subject: FW: [RCSE] Graupner Winch #2 - The rest of the story OK, since the original This sounds interesting popped-up on RCSE, I thought I'd share my first Huh...Where'd that tree come from experience with everyone. I'm sure parts of it will give somebody a chuckle... ~Sheldon-YNT~ PS: Sailplanes can be so cruel sometimes...G This is kinda' long and I may have missed some of the details but here are the salient points: 1. Rewire my Graupner winch for the new Clipper footswitch I got from Injoy 2. Winch doesn't work (strike 1), better go to Erie have Reece look at it to make sure it was wired right (it was)...Besides, we can fly (what an excuse!) 3. Plan on leaving at 6:30am, left almost an hour later (strike 2) 4. Get to Reece Mindy's, Reece applies power to winch in launch position, magic smoke starts escaping (never a good sign) 5. Follow Reece to airport, start setting up his winch 6. Drive Mindy's van and mine down the far side of the runway, reeling out line... 1. Sheldon: That should be enough 2. Reece: Nawww...I want it all out 3. Sheldon: It's pretty soft out here...That should be enough for us 4. Reece: All of it, besides, it's drier up ahead 5. Sheldon: OK...You da' boss 7. Less than 10 seconds later...Reece has Mindy's van stuck...Damn! (strike 3) 8. Reece, gets out, checks decides I should give him a little nudge to get him going 9. BIG mistake! Now my van is stuck as well...Damn, damn, damn! (strike 4...NOTE: we should have known by this time...(sigh)...) 10. Airport manager lives on-field...Uhhh Mark, We've got BOTH vans stuck, can you pull us out with your 4wd? Sure no problem don' t go down there again, it's too soft (Like we don't know this now???) 11. Mark pulls both vans out of the muck, we finish setting the winch. At this point it would be prudent to mention that we are now positioned appx where Sheldon had said earlier that's should be enough (as noted above) 12. A bit of confusion setting up the retriever...A phone call solves that puzzle 13. Wind is blowing about 10-13, with gusts upwards of 17. We launch...A short but adequate flight, add a couple of click of down to keep the speed upwind, with a landing that is not too bad, although somewhat distant. Put in several short flights with the Soprano, a couple of pop-offs included, something is still not right with the retriever. 14. Damn, that last landing I slowed it down too much, hooked the wing tip landing it! (strike 5) 15. OK, we think we have the retriever problem resolved, lets launch again 16. Launch again...Pop-off...A LOT lower than before, and Reece says just fly straight-out 17. I think he means fly straight-out until I get some speed up (he actually meant land it straight-out) 18. I've got airspeed, so I swing downwind, intending to just make an approach land, start to make my upwind turn for final...No rudder! 19. Then all of a sudden I have rudder, but it's too late...By about 10 feet, and the Soprano is in a tree...Damn, damn, damn! (strike 6) 20. We make the hike across the field look up...WOW! It's REALLY in there good...flew right into the crotch of a limb that extends straight-out into the flight path, with branches capturing it top, bottom, etc. Then we look down, the trees are in the middle of a bog, nasty! Now there's dry land on either side of the trees, but the tree itself is in the middle of the bog! (strike 7) 21. Weight a line, trying to get it over the fuselage (maybe we can pull it backwards to free it???). After MANY attempts, we do get a line over it, but no dice, this is not going well. This is not happening! 22. Reece calls his buddy Jay (who lives on-site) and says Hey! Get you ass out of bed come help us get an airplane out of a tree at the east end of the runway!) 23. Jay shows up about 20 minutes later, looks, says no problem, proceeds to walk a fallen tree to the other dry side. 24. Reece spies a deer stand against a tree about 50' away...Hey Jay, wait a minute...We got a deer stand ladder down there! So we go retrieve it and get it across to Jay. Reece says go get your radio, Jay says if he gets to it he'll just toss it and we can fly it down... get me a bottle of water out of the van too. 25. Go to the van by the time I get back, Jay is already up in the tree almost to the plane (How the hell did he do that???) 26. Jay is at the plane, gets it loose,
Re: [RCSE] Graupner Winch #2 - The rest of the story
Here it is a little different. If I choose I can bag the moose right on the driveway or next to the cabin. I can easily get someone else to do the butchering for a share of the meat if I want to be lazy. I don't see moose every day but it is rare to go more than three or four days without seeing a moose. Of course it is a long drive to go to a flying field around here. :) michael N6CHV AMA 77292 (in south central Alaska) On 4/16/06, inventorforhire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's like getting up at 4 am driving 2 hours and then trudging 5 miles into the woods in 20 degree temperatures and sitting still for 8 or more hours waiting for a deer or turkey. You manage to see one or two, but never within range. Then trudging out and driving back home for a good 16 hour day. You know that home is the best thing ever and this makes you really appreciate it. You of course have to tell the wife you had a great time... RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
[RCSE] Re: Graupner winch sad story/reaction
When you have a day like that, it's a sure sign to stop at the gas station and buy a lotto ticket on the way home...
RE: [RCSE] Re: Graupner winch sad story/reaction
Strike # whatever...NYS Mega Millions was wy up there and I didn't buy the ticket yesterday...(Sigh) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 6:29 PMTo: Soaring@airage.comSubject: [RCSE] Re: Graupner winch sad story/reaction When you have a day like that, it's a sure sign to stop at the gas station and buy a lotto ticket on the way home...
Re: FW: [RCSE] Graupner Winch #2 - The rest of the story
Now I know Sheldon has really been out soaring... ;-) The low altitude downwind turn with a large RES ship was a bad decision, should have just dumped those huge spoilers as it was flying away from you into the wind. The long walk of shame is better than a tree climb and/or breakage. Sounds like Reece had a pretty good day. 8-) At 10:23 AM 4/16/2006, Sheldon-YNT uDesign wrote: OK, since the original This sounds interesting popped-up on RCSE, I thought I'd share my first Huh...Where'd that tree come from experience with everyone. I'm sure parts of it will give somebody a chuckle... ~Sheldon-YNT~ PS: Sailplanes can be so cruel sometimes...G Jim Downers Grove, IL Member of the Chicago SOAR club, and Team JR AMA 592537LSF 7560 Level IV R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
[RCSE] Airtronics Sapphire Kit
Was this kit produced by White Wings for Airtronics? I always thought it was, but I may be incorrect. These are some of the last kits put out by Airtronics. A.B.
[RCSE] Fw: Airtronics Sapphire Kit
That would be Whyte Wings. A.B. - Original Message - From: A. B. Lyles To: Soaring@airage.com Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 6:53 PM Subject: Airtronics Sapphire Kit Was this kit produced by White Wings for Airtronics? I always thought it was, but I may be incorrect. These are some of the last kits put out by Airtronics. A.B.
RE: FW: [RCSE] Graupner Winch #2 - The rest of the story
Actually...No...He didn't even get to fly...Except skydivers that is! G It's all living and learning...Hopefully, I won't need a repeat episode to reinforce the lesson. But, ya' gotta fly 'em to learn, so I'll keep flying, and hopefully my learning won't be too painful or costly. G -Original Message- From: James V. Bacus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 6:55 PM To: RCSE Subject: Re: FW: [RCSE] Graupner Winch #2 - The rest of the story Now I know Sheldon has really been out soaring... ;-) The low altitude downwind turn with a large RES ship was a bad decision, should have just dumped those huge spoilers as it was flying away from you into the wind. The long walk of shame is better than a tree climb and/or breakage. Sounds like Reece had a pretty good day. 8-) At 10:23 AM 4/16/2006, Sheldon-YNT uDesign wrote: OK, since the original This sounds interesting popped-up on RCSE, I thought I'd share my first Huh...Where'd that tree come from experience with everyone. I'm sure parts of it will give somebody a chuckle... ~Sheldon-YNT~ PS: Sailplanes can be so cruel sometimes...G Jim Downers Grove, IL Member of the Chicago SOAR club, and Team JR AMA 592537LSF 7560 Level IV R/C Soaring blog at www.jimbacus.net RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
Re: [RCSE] Graupner Winch #2
Sheldon, please do. :-) At 08:25 PM 4/15/2006, James V. Bacus wrote: This sounds interesting... At 07:54 PM 4/15/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oh Sheldon ,tell them the whole tale.Let them know how it went from bad to worse .Don't forget about the 4 wheel drive part lol..Reece
RE: [RCSE] Push rods
Gidday all, What you are trying to solder is most likely stainless steel and the only flux worth its salt is phosphoric acid. You will be amazed how well it works on stainless or any other material for that matter. A smidgeon on the end of a balsa stick is all that is needed and resin cored solder is OK followed by a damp cloth cleanup. Regards, John Ensoll -Original Message- From: Shape [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 16 April 2006 8:26 a.m. To: RCSE Subject: [RCSE] Push rods I'm working on a new plane that has .080 steel push rods. I have sanded and fluxed them and all the solder does is bead up. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? Jerry RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
[RCSE] re: soldering
Either the rods are stainless and you have to really beat on them, or you're not using enough heat. (Well, ok, not beat on them, but use different flux or something. I have bad luck soldering to stainless, but no less a source than Mark Drela tells me it can be done. Kind of reminds me of the people who can bend balsa on 1/2 radius for EZB wingtips. I'm not one of them. Another thought that occurs to me is that if your marmalade also tasted funny you might want to check for an accidental swap.) What kind of super duper flux were all you guys talking about? I suppose I could just get that Sta Brite stuff... On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Shape wrote: I'm working on a new plane that has.080 steel push rods and they don't seem to solder well. I have sanded them, fluxed them and all the solder does is bead up. Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong. Jerry RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send subscribe and unsubscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
