The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

[Luchnia]

Snoopy, your 'room' looks too sterile....you do brain surgery in there or something????

Is that what forensics calls a "clean room"?

 

[Snoopy1]

Snoopy, your 'room' looks too sterile....you do brain surgery in there or something????

Not quite but yes it is clean, it is something that my dad hammered into from when I was very young he built racing engines for years and I was always at his side to help and learn. And the shop had to be spotless and dust free. It was kept cleaner than a spray booth.

 

[Snoopy1]

All the servos are in and setup. So the only one that is left is the throttle servo, which is always the tough one and difficult. Need to go up and down equally across centre.
You can also just see the tank just a head the landing gear blocks.

 

[Snoopy1]

I have some Blue Stuff that I bought a while back and did not know if it is still good so I made up a test piece and mixed some up and tried it, time will tell. It did need some thinning and a lot of mixing but after that it looked good so made a small test piece to see how it still works. This stuff is epoxy based and no idea what the stuff is that is mixed into it but it is as strong as hell and sands easy great for making fillets.

 

[Snoopy1]

Checked the test piece with the super light fillet and it is good and sands like dream smooth and dry. Glad that worked I love the stuff and does make a nice finish in the corners and easier to cover

 

[tailskid]

I sure hope this works! Flappy things for a GS P-47.

 

[49dimes]

Been playing with the radio equipment tonight and installed the new Spektrum AX3000 Telemetry sensor on the AR9140T. Pretty cool gismo!
Not only is it a gyro that "heading holds" or "stabilizes" it also reads altitude, G-force (all 3 axis) and rate of climb. And it is super small and weighs almost nothing! Once you update both your transmitter and receiver you can change settings from your transmitter or computer or smartphone. Only drawback I see is that it only works with the newer Power Safe Rx's so smaller fuses like the DLG's I have been seeing would not be able to take advantage and pretty much negates the units small size. But no problem stuffing it in to the Alien Extra! I for see some (Hands off) "Alien Torque Rolls"

 

[BalsaDust]

Started making wing bags for my new DLG this morning. Should help keep them looking nice.

 

[Snoopy1]

Been playing with the radio equipment tonight and installed the new Spektrum AX3000 Telemetry sensor on the AR9140T. Pretty cool gismo!
Not only is it a gyro that "heading holds" or "stabilizes" it also reads altitude, G-force (all 3 axis) and rate of climb. And it is super small and weighs almost nothing! Once you update both your transmitter and receiver you can change settings from your transmitter or computer or smartphone. Only drawback I see is that it only works with the newer Power Safe Rx's so smaller fuses like the DLG's I have been seeing would not be able to take advantage and pretty much negates the units small size. But no problem stuffing it in to the Alien Extra! I for see some (Hands off) "Alien Torque Rolls"

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Sounds like and interesting device. But it only works on the three big receivers with power safe, that does not make sense. Which port do you Plug the new device into the receiver.

 

[Snoopy1]

Went to the LHS yesterday afternoon to look at a radio, but to my surprise he does not carry any Gruapner stuff anymore. That was disappointing I was ready to hold it drool on it but no radio and he would not get one. So left with usual $200 little brown bag of parts that I needed and can never find it back.