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Old 04-17-2019, 04:25 AM
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One thing about this hobby it will keep you off the streets and out of the bars. You won't get into drugs because you're always to broke to buy any from supporting your hobby!
Old 04-17-2019, 06:01 AM
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Originally Posted by FlyerInOKC
One thing about this hobby it will keep you off the streets and out of the bars. You won't get into drugs because you're always to broke to buy any from supporting your hobby!


You know, thats what my wife says and why she supports this hobby. hmmm....being controlled and did not realize it.
Old 04-17-2019, 06:43 AM
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Originally Posted by acdii
You know, thats what my wife says and why she supports this hobby. hmmm....being controlled and did not realize it.
More like letting her think she is!
Old 04-20-2019, 09:49 AM
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ETPILOT !

Ants invaded my walls also as well as termites and other critters. the termites shook me up so I had pest control give me a bid, well over $2000+ so looking on line I found a bug killer called TERMIDOR basically for termites. it cost about $65 a quart.
one year after I still don,t see many critters and I only used about 3 ounces in a two gallon spray rig that is still half full and my attic and foundation was sprayed. This stuff is powerful so following the instructions is a must but it works and last, it is supposed to be a slow killer and the critters transport it into their nest to kill the queen....... seems to be working for me, look it up on the internet you wont regret it!

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Old 04-21-2019, 06:02 AM
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A blessed Easter to one and all !
Old 04-21-2019, 12:00 PM
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A blessed Easter to you, as well!
Old 04-22-2019, 04:13 AM
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Hope all had a Blessed Easter.

Donny, thanks for that tip on Termidor. I looked it up. Good reviews and found a place that sells it at $70. I’m going to buy a bottle.

I had to remove all the inside sheeting from this one garage wall. Found a few more feet of minor damage. The problem is the builder did not do a good job of preventing water intrusion at the base of the wall around the door framing. So this attracted the ants and most damage is around the door framing. We called an exterminator and a builder we know to inspect and give us an estimate. See which way to proceed with this repair.

Old 04-22-2019, 09:37 PM
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I spent Easter driving back from England. 203 miles (326 kms) from Shrewsbury to Portsmouth on the Saturday and 278 miles (447 kms) from Ouistrehem to my home on the Sunday. I felt rather tired on the Sunday afternoon!
Old 04-23-2019, 05:41 AM
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Drove back from Dayton OH Sunday, 420+ miles.
Old 04-23-2019, 06:57 AM
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You guys had a better Easter than I did. I became ill during the service and ended up in the ER with chest pains and didn't get out until late yesterday. The tests seem to indicated I did NOT have a heart attack but I'm headed to the wife's cardiologist tomorrow morning. My birthday is Thursday I wonder if I can exchange the chest pains for something else? This could explain my sluggish the last 3 or 4 months.
Old 04-23-2019, 07:55 AM
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I get chest pains from a bad disk in my back. Scary at first, but I learned how to tell if they are back related now. Hope yours turns out to be something like this and not cardiac related.
Old 04-23-2019, 09:26 AM
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Well done acdii, I don't enjoy driving long distances anymore but at least I wasn't taken ill over Easter. I went to England in the two tonner to help Trish, The Love Of My Old Age, aka Miss Blue Eyes, see Posts 6670 and 6696.

She has a daughter Lucie, aged thirty-nine, who gave birth to a baby boy sixteen months ago. Lucie has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis so Trish is in the process of selling her house here in France and moving back to England to support her daughter, son-in-law and and grandson. It's a bit of a blow but there are cheap flights between Limoges and Bristol so we still hope to see quite a bit of each other. That said, she'll be living in England by the end of May but she's coming back for La Coupe Des Barons in September!

The professionals wanted 2000€ (£1734 Sterling or $2242 US) for a part-load, so we crammed as much as we could into my van, it will take two tonnes, and unloaded it into her new house in Somerset. We then drove 200 miles to my hometown where we met up with some old friends and my sister for a few days. I took advantage of the time there to change the back discs, pads and rubber brake pipes on the van. Did the whole trip on just three tankfuls of diesel.

The van is pictured below. The bigger one!

Bonne Recuperation Flyer!


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Old 04-23-2019, 09:37 AM
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Well, that sucks, but on the bright side, more time to build and fly? (insert cheesy grin)

What I found to be the best part of the drive was doing it on 17 gallons of gas. My truck got 24 MPG @ 70 MPH. A 3 ton brick getting 24 MPG is just unheard of. This is hand calculated using Fuelly too, so no tricks. The entire trip , with a lot of city driving, which I normally don't do, came out to a whopping 22 MPG.
Old 04-23-2019, 09:46 AM
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Thanks for the well wishes Acdii and Telemaster! Sounds like a good trip Telemaster. I wish you and your new lover the best of luck with your long distance relationship. I think with everything going on it will be a help and not an hindrance. The domestic brands here have adopted the European style of vans like yours and I think its an improvement. I had to replace my old 2001 Acura MDX a few weeks ago. I went with a 2013 Ford Escape a lot smaller but I can still haul airplanes. The peppy little 1.6 liter 4 cylinder with Turbo is a lot more efficient then the old 3.5 V6 on fuel but still a joy to drive. The color is Ginger Ale Metallic the wife calls it pickle juice.
Old 04-30-2019, 10:09 PM
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It's gone quiet here! I suppose we're all busy with one thing and another.

I have been busy gardening. I enjoy growing vegetables and last year lost most of my beans and onions to drought. This year I have dug deep trenches under where they will be planted and I have enriched the soil with horse manure and compost. This should help if we get another dry summer but double-trenching was mighty hard work! I'm beginning to feel my age! Unfortunately the cybernetics will not let me show you a picture of my handiwork.

Despite all of this activity I've managed to do a bit of aeromodelling. As most of you know, I am building a second Baron, a simple three-channel trainer for La Coupe Des Barons in September. https://saffiotipatrick.wixsite.com/vl38/les-barons It occurred to me that the English company, Laser, used to produce a 45 and a 50 sized engine, which would comply with the rules, and I thought that, as an Englishman, it would be "ubercool" as young people say, to run a Laser in this year's competition. I put a post up on the British RCM&E website to see whether anyone had one of these engines for sale. I was told that the Laser 50 had the same crankcase as a Laser 62 and though this engine would not comply with the rules, it was suggested that I could fit an over-sized engine and enjoy the benefits of extra power! I own a laser 62 and having inspected my it I noticed that it has "62" stamped into the mounting lugs. I thought of filing the number off and entering the competition with it.Name:  devil_smile.gif
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By last night, having reached the stage where the fuselage, wing and tailplane had been built, I put them all together to admire my handywork as you do! I then went outside to bring in the washing. Having come back into the workshop I looked at the model again and thought, "That starboard wing looks a lot closer to the table than the port wing." I cleared the table of debris and found that after sixty years experience of building model aircraft, minus the sex and drugs and rock'n'roll years of course, I'd built one wing with 2cms (just over 3/4") more dihedral than the other! Name:  mad.gif
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Divine retribution?

Only two things comfort me:

1. The competition is not till September.

2. My camera battery is flat and refuses to take a charge so I cannot show you the evidence!

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Old 05-01-2019, 04:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Telemaster Sales UK
It's gone quiet here! I suppose we're all busy with one thing and another.

I have been busy gardening. I enjoy growing vegetables and last year lost most of my beans and onions to drought. This year I have dug deep trenches under where they will be planted and I have enriched the soil with horse manure and compost. This should help if we get another dry summer but double-trenching was mighty hard work! I'm beginning to feel my age! Unfortunately the cybernetics will not let me show you a picture of my handiwork.

Despite all of this activity I've managed to do a bit of aeromodelling. As most of you know, I am building a second Baron, a simple three-channel trainer for La Coupe Des Barons in September. https://saffiotipatrick.wixsite.com/vl38/les-barons It occurred to me that the English company, Laser, used to produce a 45 and a 50 sized engine, which would comply with the rules, and I thought that, as an Englishman, it would be "ubercool" as young people say, to run a Laser in this year's competition. I put a post up on the British RCM&E website to see whether anyone had one of these engines for sale. I was told that the Laser 50 had the same crankcase as a Laser 62 and though this engine would not comply with the rules, it was suggested that I could fit an over-sized engine and enjoy the benefits of extra power! I own a laser 62 and having inspected my it I noticed that it has "62" stamped into the mounting lugs. I thought of filing the number off and entering the competition with it.Attachment 2264091

By last night, having reached the stage where the fuselage, wing and tailplane had been built, I put them all together to admire my handywork as you do! I then went outside to bring in the washing. Having come back into the workshop I looked at the model again and thought, "That starboard wing looks a lot closer to the table than the port wing." I cleared the table of debris and found that after sixty years experience of building model aircraft, minus the sex and drugs and rock'n'roll years of course, I'd built one wing with 2cms (just over 3/4") more dihedral than the other! Attachment 2264092Attachment 2264092Attachment 2264092

Divine retribution?

Only two things comfort me:

1. The competition is not till September.

2. My camera battery is flat and refuses to take a charge so I cannot show you the evidence!

Now where's that carving knife. Attachment 2264093Attachment 2264093Attachment 2264093
This says it all....

Old 05-01-2019, 06:51 AM
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Hang in there Guys I can tell you from experience these "DAYS" mentioned come and go in random sequence that seems designed to maximize frustration.

I have covered some areas of my mustang several times for various goof ups. hopefully we learn from these experiences (right) only to do a bigger goof up the next time
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Shizz happens mang.
Old 05-01-2019, 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Telemaster Sales UK
As most of you know, I am building a second Baron, a simple three-channel trainer for La Coupe Des Barons in September. https://saffiotipatrick.wixsite.com/vl38/les-barons It occurred to me that the English company, Laser, used to produce a 45 and a 50 sized engine, which would comply with the rules, and I thought that, as an Englishman, it would be "ubercool" as young people say, to run a Laser in this year's competition. I put a post up on the British RCM&E website to see whether anyone had one of these engines for sale. I was told that the Laser 50 had the same crankcase as a Laser 62 and though this engine would not comply with the rules, it was suggested that I could fit an over-sized engine and enjoy the benefits of extra power! I own a laser 62 and having inspected my it I noticed that it has "62" stamped into the mounting lugs. I thought of filing the number off and entering the competition with it.
Inasmuch as we can joke about "breaking the rules", being as old and wiser as we should be, the fun is lost when we do things with an unfair advantage. Personally, I'd just put an engine in that fits the rules, and have a blast (great fun) doing it. This Baron event sounds like my kind of competition, all for the fun of doing it. Your thoughts are only in passing?

Having come back into the workshop I looked at the model again and thought, "That starboard wing looks a lot closer to the table than the port wing." I cleared the table of debris and found that after sixty years experience of building model aircraft, minus the sex and drugs and rock'n'roll years of course, I'd built one wing with 2cms (just over 3/4") more dihedral than the other! Divine retribution?
Oh, I seriously doubt that "le seigneur des hôtes" is desiring any harm upon us. I did similar with my 1959 Berkeley .09 Impulse "single channel pylon racer" (an early oxymoron if I ever heard of one ), clamped the bulkhead in tight using Titebond Aliphaltic resin carpenters glue. Given the "precision cut" Berkeley kit die cutting resulted in the cheek cowls being installed 3mm closer than wanted, eliminating use of my sort of period correct 1963 A.C. Gilbert .11 Thunderhead I wanted to use. Now it will sport a Cox .09 Medallion R/C.
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Actually GG if I fitted the 62 disguised as something smaller, I'd probably just dig a bigger hole in the ground than I would with a 52. It was not my idea to run an over-sized engine, just that of a perfidious compatriot on an English website! https://www.modelflying.co.uk/forums....asp?th=142102

Talking of which I've just had a couple of flights this afternoon with "Boris," the Baron which I finished in Russian WW1 colours for last year's event. It flew well and drew some appreciative comments. The Magnum 52FS is running well.
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It's always nice to see something a little different!
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Originally Posted by Telemaster Sales UK
I'd built one wing with 2cms (just over 3/4") more dihedral than the other!
That's what is known as a Homer moment:
Old 05-01-2019, 11:40 PM
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A bloke on RC Groups has recommended that I simply pack up the centre section so that both wing tips are level!

I think I'll take his advice, and I won't use an over-sized engine in La Coupe, even us socialist aetheists have a moral compass.

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Old 05-02-2019, 03:11 PM
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Off topic. But, maybe good info for some.

I got a deal I couldn't pass up. A free modern type clothes washer that quit at mid cycle and no drain no spin. It had been sitting in a backyard for a couple of months.

So I took it home. First, I had to learn how it worked. It is not the older typical washer style. Then I took it apart. OMG. Dirty, dirty ,dirty. I spent a good time cleaning before I got to troubleshooting. During the troubleshooting I found that it needed a new drain pump. I got a new one today and washer working fine.

A few things about this style washer. CLEAN, CLEAN, AND CLEAN are the key words. Apparently the owner washed dirty muddy clothes. This dirt settled in the outer water jacket. The filter trap was loaded with dirt, lint and paper. A penny was found. The pump was coated in dirt which kept it from rotating and motor failed.

So some caution, a little pre cleaning of muddy dirty clothes. Empty pockets of coins, paper, etc. Don’t overfill the basket. Small garments can work their way from the basket to the water jacket and cause a mid cycle shutdown.

RC wise I haven’t been doing much. Too many projects. I think I need to go into RC BUILDERS REHAB. Here I need to maiden planes and I’m already thinking of a new build. A stick built Extra 300. A challenge for sure. Studying it a bit.







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We have a similar Whirlpool. One day it stopped working, would not go into a spin cycle. Through the onboard diagnostics it determined that a stepper motor was malfunctioning. $30 and a few hours later, working again. We also have an LG front loading washer. Would not drain. I took it apart and discovered a clump of hair was lammed in the pump impeller, and a couple hours of taking apart, cleaning and putting back together, working again and $0 cost.

Next day the LG built Kenmore Elite French door failed. $99 service call to tell me compressor, $600 labor, and walked out. Never touched the box. Word of advice for everyone. Do NOT buy an LG made refrigerator. The compressors are crap and die within a couple years if lucky. This was our second one the, the first we got a full refund on after two compressors could not fix it.

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