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  Rejoice Spektrum Users!!

Posted by: kizza42
27-05-2010, 07:07 PM
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No longer are will we be subject to the price gouge, Cloned DSM2 receivers are now on the market. FASST is next!!!

http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store...duct=11965

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  Happy Birthday

Posted by: paulj
27-05-2010, 05:03 PM
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Noticed that it's your birthday today Garry.Smile
Happy Birthday mate hope you have a good one.

Paul

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  Parkzone T28 Trojan Motor Upgrade Turnigy 35-36C

Posted by: chrism
20-05-2010, 09:33 PM
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Recently I have had to replace the motor in my T28 due to the original unit developing cracks in the plastic part of the bell, which in turn allowed the shaft of the motor rotate independently of the bell.
As there are a number of these planes in our club I thought it would be useful to others if I documented the exercise, so here is what I have done.

I have chosen to replace the original motor with a Turnigy 35-36C 1100kV as it is a good quality motor for its price.

Unfortunately the Turnigy does not screw straight onto the original motor mount, so I have constructed a new mount from some 25mm stand offs and 3mm aluminium plate which picks up the original mounting holes on the firewall. See the attached drawing for the details of these parts.


As it turns out anyway the plastic mount was cracked and from what I have read from other threads it is recoomended that using a more powerful motor requires a stiffer and stronger mount.

The images below show the mounted up motor.


Using 25mm stand offs require the cowling to be modified as shown below.


Once this is done the cowling can be refitted.


The original prop does not fit the Turnigy motor so a replacement is required and this is where I'm at now.

I know some of our members have already replaced the motor in their T28, so could I please get some feedback on the prop size and if you have used the original ESC what timing setting did you use. I powered mine up with the original prop, which I modified to fit the shaft, only to find the motor missing at full revs - it was drawing 28amps. The E-Flite manual for the ESC indicates that for a 14 pole motor either standard or high advance timing can be used. Any thoughts or experience?

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  Pylon Racing at Pittown 30th May

Posted by: srl
20-05-2010, 10:20 AM
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We are racing at Pittown on the 30th.
All electric aircraft are welcome in Q500 sport. Ten laps is 100mph in less than 2 minutes.
F400 and F3d go a bit faster.
Practice is on Saturday. Cost is $25 which includes field hire and Fuel. May have to review it for non fuel aircraft.
nswpylon.org
srl

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ph3bgc7VHk[/youtube]

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  Indoor Flying

Posted by: chrism
09-05-2010, 11:01 PM
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Hi Guys,
I was down Ultimate Hobbies at Parramatta this afternoon for some retail therapy of the plane kind and got taking to the sales guys.
One guy was quite interested in where we fly at Toongabbie and the other then said that they are trying to find a venue in the area to conduct indoor flying of a similar nature to that the H Store runs at Menai.
If they are successful in obtaining a venue I thought this may be of interest to some of our club members. I will enquire with them from time to time and keep you informed.

Also for those in the Ermington area, in particular Kendal Reserve, the 1st sales guy said that he was looking at forming a club and trying to secure Kendal for their field with the council. It does pose a few problems the worst of which is the helicopter traffic that uses the river as a flight path, so a maximum height restriction would have to be adhered too.

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  daylight saving time

Posted by: paulj
03-05-2010, 12:13 AM
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Hey Kizza
Think the site is still running on DST.

Paul

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  Off The Wall Discussions

Posted by: samste
01-05-2010, 08:36 PM
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Post here Anything Of interest Thats not related to RC That you want to share or Chit Chat About.

OK Guys, I like movies a lot, So we did our movie marathon this afternoon with my kids and Saw Clash of Titans at Cinema's, and straight after bought Tickets and went and saw Iron man 2.
Clash of Titans not a bad movie but iron Man 2 was great
If you haven't seen Iron man 1 Its a must see before Iron man 2 and Iron man 2 is Brilliant full action packed movie a must see on the big screen. Smile
i may be Biased but one of my favorite characters was Iron Man when i was younger.

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  All members - Very Important

Posted by: dingy
01-05-2010, 05:21 PM
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Please refer to my posting in Members Area

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  Parramatta's Shuttle

Posted by: paulj
01-05-2010, 12:32 PM
Forum: General
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While watching Steve,Kieran and Kev flying their
Funjets I was struck with how much they looked like the
Space Shuttle especially when doing high alphas into the wind
and when gliding in on approach.
Sooooo, I now present Parra's own Space Shuttle...............





Weather permitting, she will maiden tomorrow.

Paul

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  I'm Back

Posted by: paulj
30-04-2010, 08:53 PM
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After being without internet access for the last 10 days
I'm back...(thank god) Smile Smile
Had a lot of problems with my internet providor who
stuffed up my initial request for support and then only
expedited my request after a huge blast from me.(long story)
Anyway finally at 6:30pm tonight they got me going again and I'm
hoping it's now all ok.
I feel lost without internet these days and I have heaps of email
to go through.
Good to see things here are normal anyway.
cheers

Paul

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