[RCSE] What do you use?

2001-01-10 Thread Gary S. Baldwin
Hi All, I maintain the winches for my club and I always put #30 - 295 lb. twisted line on the winch spools. We have a lot of blackberry plants and the really chew up monofilament line and of course the twisted line doesn't tangle when it is new line mono does. Braided line just doesn't seem, to

RE: [RCSE] Karlton, what month is it ??

2001-01-10 Thread Mike Bronk
Will Karlton be assessed for vendor bashing in the wrong month?? -Original Message- From: Jon Stone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Karlton Spindle Subject: [RCSE] Karlton, what month is it ?? I thought January was NOT Sal bas

Re: [RCSE] Re: Winch launches

2001-01-10 Thread Nazcalift
Jeff Reid Wrote: > I've seen the HSS club winch >motor get stalled on a launch with a stronger than >"contest legal" battery. Jeff, What is stronger than contest legal in an HSS (Harbor Soaring Society) battery? HSS contests are TD contests. F3B does have restrictions but TD contest don

Re: [RCSE] Wipers?

2001-01-10 Thread Harley Michaelis
The individual slats from 1" plastic venetian blinds (K-mart, etc.) are a great raw material for wipers. Strips 3/8" or so wide can be cut from either finished edge. If the wing is skinned foam core, a slit is made between the two with an Exacto knife and a thin sanding tool such as the fine, fl

Re: [RCSE] Lead Acid Shelf Life

2001-01-10 Thread Aerofoam
a fix for > rejuvenating a battery that had sulfated. The fix is to charge the battery > with a constant current of C/20 for 24 hours I deal with this on the main bank for my boat. It is 125ah All lead acid batteries need a high voltage/current charge occasionally to burn off the sulfate, on th

Re: [RCSE] Lead Acid Shelf Life

2001-01-10 Thread bgroft
We use lead acid batteries in a product we manufacture. A few of the batteries were left in our warehouse for over a year without charging. When we tried to use one of them, it did not have any capacity. We contacted the battery manufacturer's engineering department and they gave us a fix for r

[RCSE] test

2001-01-10 Thread D Hauch/ D Unruh
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Re: [RCSE] New Receiver Standard

2001-01-10 Thread tony estep
Well, at the very least we should band together and do the following: ask all the mfrs to release and swear to their specs for bandwidth at -6 and -60 db, sensitivity for 10 db s/(s+n), current drain, low voltage limit (and maybe more that others more savvy than I might propose). Maybe we could st

Re: [RCSE] Wipers?

2001-01-10 Thread Tim Olson
Daniel Armstrong wrote: >I am starting to design a new 3.6 metre model and want to use wipers on both >ailerons and flaps, could some one with experience of wipers tell me how >they are contructed and any special design considerations (what are they >made from?) I had a set of Emerald wings that

RE: [RCSE] New Receiver Standard

2001-01-10 Thread Barry Baskin
I agree with Bill. I would not be able to fly many of the planes I do without Tom's amazing skills on programming the Stylus Tx. His seal of approval on Rx's would be meaningful to memore power to Tom, helps us consumers. Barry Baskin. Walnut Creek CA. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model A

[RCSE] New Receiver Standard

2001-01-10 Thread Bill Swingle
Thanks to Tom Hoopes for relating his test results. Empirical data is the best and we owe Tom our gratitude for his efforts. The marketing trends of today don't include the hard core factual data. And, I'm not expecting to see this change. Thus, it's difficult to separate truth from lies (oops, m

[RCSE] Winch Line ?

2001-01-10 Thread Iflyicrash
Speaking of winches, any one know of some good sources for braided winch line, other than Memphis Net & Twine? The last 12 rolls #24 we got last fall were really bad. TIA Bill Grenoble-- BAR/CSSPA RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" re

Re: [RCSE] Selig

2001-01-10 Thread Andrew E. Mileski
Brian wrote: > > Hi, Anyone know what the current address for Mr. Seligs Airfoil data > site. > > These links don't work for me. > > http://opus.aae.uiuc.edu/~selig/ > http://amber.aae.uiuc.edu/~m-selig This works for me, just tried it: http://amber.aae.uiuc.edu/~m-selig/ -- Andrew E. Miles

[RCSE] Airfoils.

2001-01-10 Thread Klaus K Weiss
I have tried numerous URL addresses for the Selig Airfoil site in the past few days, all with no success. Does anyone have a URL that they know works? thank you. Klaus K Weiss Sydney Australia http://web.one.net.au/~kkw RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" a

[RCSE] tom hoopes' posting re receivers

2001-01-10 Thread tony estep
Ain't it a pleasure to get some commentary based on empirical and valid tests?! Thanks, Tom. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "su