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Forum: ARF or RTF
11-20-2010, 05:23 PM
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Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

da Rock: This thread is still alive because of it's DIVERSITY, and going "off subject" and getting back to the point has been the life-blood of our interesting conversations in here. You are only...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-20-2010, 02:56 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

And don't forget to drill small, thread the screw in (forming threads in the soft wood) and then remove screw and hit it with super thin CA... But you already knew that.. ;)

Since all ya'll...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-20-2010, 01:16 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

Battery question: I'm charging batts up today and with my new & new-to-me technology ONYX 210 Charger, and with 2 different volt testers, (one computerized, one standard digital) I am getting 7.2...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-20-2010, 10:36 AM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

You are asking about E-Power with a bunch of escaped cerified pilot-lunatics that would just as soon see Great Planes come out with a V-8 Turbo "Humongus" Revolver??? :D:D Great Planes says 58.5"...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-19-2010, 06:26 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

My usual (downward) progression is like, shiny new, then a cracked cowl and damaged wheel pants, then missing parts to the cowl and NO wheel pants, and then who NEEDS a cowl and wheel pants ANYWAY???...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-19-2010, 05:23 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

Heck... The natural physics concerning the indisputable law of UPDC says to me THAT plane will never crash!!! :D:D If it's true that Gremlins are deathly afraid of expoxy, I'd say that your...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-19-2010, 03:39 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

Words to live by: "A wise husband has no opinion..." :D Wife says keep the planes small, I keep them small... As long as she's just measuring the wing span, maybe she won't notice how MANY I have...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-19-2010, 10:01 AM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

Update: FYI: I just got off the phone with Hobbico/Great Planes support and gave them the link info for this Forum. Until this morn, they were unaware of our group (and large following) and were...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-18-2010, 09:57 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

That last post makes me sound like I epoxied the landing gear bolts themselves... Of course, this is where you, the reader, has to do some "interpretive" reading to define what I actually said,...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-18-2010, 08:53 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

I epoxied and then ran the landing gear mounting bolts through a length of aluminum angle that was sandwitched to the gear plate plywood by the landing gear itself. The angle part of the aluminum...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-18-2010, 08:21 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

Hmmm... All the sudden I am having self doubts... :eek: I mean, who in their right mind would put a Pratt and Whitney PT6 turbine (920 shaft horsepower) on a Piper Cub, but that seems to be the...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-18-2010, 07:27 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

If it's a Tiger with the 55AX, just WHAT, pray tell, do you predict that a 91FX will do??? I can JUST hear the preacher now at my funeral, "He died doing what he loved most. It seemd one minute he...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-18-2010, 06:42 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

Jet22b, I don't get it... You could have told Prelude92 to bolt a 1.20AX on the nose and use those Futaba Mega-Torq servos and he could have just stayed right here in THIS forum... :D
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-18-2010, 05:06 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

AND he finds time to write FULL Build report to boot!!!! :) I was going to make a joke about Bruce Almighty, but I read somewhere that ya don't talk about that kind of stuff at Thanksgiving...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-18-2010, 09:36 AM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

Dave: And just think! When you aren't flying, you can hook these servos up for your Wood Splitter!!! :D Oh... Don't listen to me... I have a bad case of "Servo Envy" with all this talk I read...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-17-2010, 11:20 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

Well, they have to draw the line somewhere, lest some ADD Type A guy (like, uh, me???) starts bolting a small-block Chebby on the nose... :D
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-17-2010, 09:58 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

Wildwings, I see you live in Rapid City, and we have been through there enough times to KNOW that if you think the wind isn't going to be howling tomorrow, I have a bridge I wanna sell you... :D ...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-17-2010, 08:17 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

Wildwings, I use little paper 'hobby cups' to hold my GG in. (They look like something a hospital would dispense meds in, 1" X 1" or so.) I don't "wet" my surfaces any longer, because I actually...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-17-2010, 06:47 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

Wildwings, what are you using to glue the hinge-points in with? Also, are you using vasaline or oil on the knuckle joints to keep the glue from wicking in? I have used everything from thick CA (NOT...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-17-2010, 06:25 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

PRISTINE??? Oh, no, no nooooo.... [X(] Just grab it by the vertical and horizontal stabs and give it a good twist until you hear something snap, and then use WAY more epoxy than it calls for,...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-17-2010, 06:06 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

On Over-Heating, I usually opt for no cowl, or, like on the Rev, I chop huge portions away that allows air in AND out all over the place. I'm not much into the model's over-all 'appearence' because...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-17-2010, 09:11 AM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

S+S, exactly! I read the same article on the 120AX, and comparably speaking, the proof in the puddin' (in MY case) for my 91FX is, it is now about 15+ years old, and admittedly not a WHOLE lot of...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-16-2010, 06:21 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

Airraptor! Long time no see!!! :) Yes... Lower RPM is part of the "quiet equation", but think: Smaller diameter at ANY RPM is less tip speed, so now that ya mention it, the 3-Blade probably IS...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-16-2010, 05:05 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

MY Input: Research finished... [8D] Just the PRICE diff and Weight diff makes the DLE20 a shoe-in winner... Time will tell if the DEPENDABILITY will be the same, as the Zenoah is time-tested and...
Forum: ARF or RTF
11-16-2010, 03:47 PM
Replies: 8,173
Views: 874,477
Posted By Widget

RE: Larger Revolver

I would "try" the MA 14X7(3) for starters and compare the RPM with the current 2 blade prop that you like running now. The problem with 3-blade props is, they are not that popular, and in the MA...
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