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Forum: Kit Building
10-19-2009, 09:43 PM
Replies: 753
Views: 144,724
Posted By mike50

RE: Dynaflite Butterfly build

I have been running my O.S. Max-15 RC engines on Coolpower 15% for years. More recently I've been running with Wildcat 10% Nitro, 18% Oil (Oil is 80% synthetic, 20% castor). Either way they have...
Forum: Kit Building
10-18-2009, 12:45 PM
Replies: 753
Views: 144,724
Posted By mike50

RE: Dynaflite Butterfly build

I've been running several O.S. Max-15 engines with strap on mufflers for years and they always leak a little at the muffler. I've never had any problems because of that.

Mike
Forum: Golden Age, Vintage & Antique RC
09-17-2008, 06:36 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,530
Posted By mike50

RE: Half A Diamond

I have a 1/2 A Diamond, unbuilt, still in the box. It is missing one wing panel and possibly some other parts... The fuselage, tail feathers and one wing panel are there, as well as the plans.

...
Forum: RC Radios, Transmitters, Receivers, Servos, gyros
05-03-2008, 11:02 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 10,536
Posted By mike50

RE: how to slow down a retact servo?

Whether a proportional servo has enough throw depends on how the linkage is set up. And, as I pointed out above, you are right that mechanisms to slow down proportional servos won't work with...
Forum: RC Radios, Transmitters, Receivers, Servos, gyros
05-03-2008, 08:32 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 10,536
Posted By mike50

RE: how to slow down a retact servo?

I didn't know that retract servos stop trying to hold position after reaching end of travel. It would be pretty easy to make a regular proportional servo do that too, with a small microcontroller. ...
Forum: RC Radios, Transmitters, Receivers, Servos, gyros
05-02-2008, 04:47 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 10,536
Posted By mike50

RE: how to slow down a retact servo?

That will only work if it is a proportional servo. Retract servos are not proportional. You won't be able to slow them down at the transmitter.

Mike
Forum: RC Radios, Transmitters, Receivers, Servos, gyros
04-06-2008, 12:16 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,638
Posted By mike50

RE: slowing a servo

I fully agree with not tolerating things that cause glitches.

I don't know how the device you bought is designed, but it is surprising that there would be any difference (as far as glitching...
Forum: RC Radios, Transmitters, Receivers, Servos, gyros
04-05-2008, 01:03 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,638
Posted By mike50

RE: slowing a servo

Bought a couple of what?

There are lots of people selling servo "slow down" devices, I'm sure some of them are poorly designed. It does seem odd to me that lots of people complain about these...
Forum: RC Radios, Transmitters, Receivers, Servos, gyros
04-04-2008, 09:38 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,638
Posted By mike50

RE: slowing a servo

One more thing...what type of servo is the modified servo that drives the turret?

Mike
Forum: RC Radios, Transmitters, Receivers, Servos, gyros
04-04-2008, 09:11 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,638
Posted By mike50

RE: slowing a servo

I can build you one of these.

Here's how it would work:

This device would plug into the y-connector (where you plug the turret's servo in now) and then the turret servo would plug into...
Forum: RC Radios, Transmitters, Receivers, Servos, gyros
04-04-2008, 07:21 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,638
Posted By mike50

RE: slowing a servo

That is what I thought you meant. In that case, a servo "Go Slow" device won't work very well.

The "go slow" devices work by changing the input pulse length to the servo only very slowly,...
Forum: RC Radios, Transmitters, Receivers, Servos, gyros
04-03-2008, 11:32 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,638
Posted By mike50

RE: slowing a servo

I'm not sure I understand exactly what you meant here:

Are you saying that if you were to hold the rudder to the left (for example) then the turret would continue to turn, without stopping? If...
Forum: RC Radios, Transmitters, Receivers, Servos, gyros
04-03-2008, 06:41 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 1,638
Posted By mike50

RE: slowing a servo

How slow would you want it to be? You said "cut the speed in half", but that depends on the full speed of the servo. Any device to make the servo go slow will make it go some absolute speed...like...
Forum: Seaplanes
08-03-2006, 10:27 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 762
Posted By mike50

RE: Puddle Master Question on Thrust

That seems to be unusual behavior for a Puddlemaster.

Mine is set up with no down thrust, as you suggest, and definitely pitches down as the engine is throttled up. It isn't a lot, but it is...
Forum: Questions and Answers
08-02-2006, 09:37 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 2,457
Posted By mike50

RE: Flaps and retracts but only 5 channels?

Someone with just a little experience with programming PIC chips (or other microcontrollers) could make you a device to do what you want. It wouldn't be much bigger (or weigh more) than a Y cable. ...
Forum: The Clubhouse
08-01-2006, 01:42 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 2,945
Posted By mike50

RE: MAN Sept. 06 issue

I used to subscribe to lots of RC magazines, but now, with the Web, who needs the magazines? I suspect that is why they are becoming scarcer and of less quality.

Mike
Forum: Crash & Rebuild
10-25-2005, 02:53 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 3,411
Posted By mike50

RE: Terrible Crash! Who's at fault?

Whenever I let a novice fly my planes I always tell them up front that as long as they give me the controls back when I say to, then any crashes are my fault. Saying that before starting puts...
Forum: Crash & Rebuild
09-15-2005, 02:19 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,807
Posted By mike50

RE: Could not stop it

I had a crash deep into some woods once and I stayed at the site, keeping track of the line on which the plane was last seen. My brother went home and got an old boy scout compass. When he got back...
Forum: "1/2 A" & "1/8 A" airplanes
05-18-2005, 12:19 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 1,271
Posted By mike50

RE: Recommendations for a .15?

The OS MAX .15 was an airplane engine. I have two of these; they have been very nice running, reliable engines.
Forum: Sport Flying
04-28-2005, 08:48 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,383
Posted By mike50

RE: Any cool gadgets?

Here is a construction article for a nice onboard glow driver. He used to sell kits, but not any more. I just built one of these and it works great.

http://www.cliftech.com/pdf/OptogloII.pdf
...
Forum: Crash & Rebuild
04-17-2005, 10:13 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 1,354
Posted By mike50

RE: Easy Sport Crash Photos

Those pictures look amazingly like my brother in law's crashed Falcon III. He went straight in at full throttle too. He and I were able to rebuild his from mostly the same parts and it flys as good...
Forum: "1/2 A" & "1/8 A" airplanes
04-15-2005, 03:36 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 728
Posted By mike50

RE: Throttle Bug Problem

When I was a kid, I was riding my bicycle down a hill really fast and for some reason I had my mouth wide open (never did this again) and a June bug (not the size of those African beetles, but big...
Forum: RC Scale Aircraft
04-11-2005, 09:55 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,699
Posted By mike50

RE: Sterling Corsiar Kit FS-36

There were no separate instructions, just the plans. BTW, here is a picture of my FS-36 Corsair built about 1980.
Forum: RC Scale Aircraft
04-06-2005, 08:28 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 2,699
Posted By mike50

RE: Sterling Corsiar Kit FS-36

Did you just buy the kit on EBay that was for sale last week that had no instructions or plans? I was thinking about going for that...

Mike
Forum: "1/2 A" & "1/8 A" airplanes
04-03-2005, 02:10 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 19,093
Posted By mike50

RE: Old Sterling kits anywhere?

Here is a picture of the Sterling FS-36 Corsair I built back in about 1980. It has a Cox TD .09 with which it flies very well. I completely sheeted the wing with 1/32 balsa, covered with silkspan...
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