What I've been doing during lockdown

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#31 Re: What I've been doing during lockdown

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Toppsy wrote: Sat Feb 05, 2022 2:35 pm Ed,
That Limbo Dancer looks fab in it's clear Yellow Solarfilm you have done a superb job mate. Looks like a small outrunner electric motor, yes?
sort of....it's about 900watts, nearly the biggest one I've got at the mo.
I got a copy of the original balsacraft plan and modified it to take a 4 cell 4000mah lipo. I took up modelling again in 2015 after a near 30 year break and knew absolutely nothing about electric. Since then electric has become a bit clearer and I kid myself that I know what I'm doing. The limbo comes back after 5 or 6 minutes with 70% battery measured having been stretched aerobatically. Using the other chaps as a yardstick I could easily keep it in the air for well over 10 minutes....but dare I say it, it gets a bit boring.

I wouldn't go back to IC now...all that mess and nagging from the mem sahib.

thanks for the offer of the solartrim but I don't have enough attitude to make them pretty any more. The gliders all have 2 colours of solarfilm for orientation, but thats as far as I go these days.
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#32 Re: What I've been doing during lockdown

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I wouldn't go back to IC now...all that mess and nagging from the mem sahib.


Completely understand where you are coming from there Ed, it is a right faff having to make sure everything is fuel proof especially any spray painted surfaces. I am leaning more and more towards my next build being electric or a electric assist glider that can be flown from the slope.

Trouble is though I just love playing around with internal combustion model engines be they Glow fuel 2S or 4S, Diesel (i.e. compression ignition) or petrol. I suppose I'm more comfortable with mechanical things rather then electric things.
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Good Lord!!!
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orientation...they're all the same, same as my speakers really...but it works:
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dayglow orange on one side and dayglow green on the other.
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#35 Re: What I've been doing during lockdown

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Made a small double-glazed fanlight window for our cottage


Should have done it years ago. It was the one remaining single-glazed window in there and was in the bathroom, so it was always freezing in winter.

Hate making windows. Tricky.
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another little bit of glider porn
this ones an antique from the early 1970s(newly minted)
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