Big Nasty before fixing from the crash and after. The motor flew out of the mount on the maiden and kinda mangled the front of the plane.
Clipped wing Cub
Whoo! I just ordered the Sig 1/6 Clipped wing cub from great hobbies, along with 2 rolls of ultracote! Excited!
My Website!
Here's my website. I am currently working on updating it and making it relevant and interesting! It covers R/C cars and planes and includes all my builds of Planes
https://sites.google.com/site/rcinsight/home
https://sites.google.com/site/rcinsight/home
Flying Trainer one with skis on frozen pond!
here's my trainer one with skis flying on the pond beside my house. It's a blast, especially on the 3s LiPo I was using!
| Flying the Trainer One over the pond in winter (6 min 6 sec) |
finally got the edge 540 epp set up properly with the right CoG and a powerful enough motor (I rewound an old HXT 24g 1300kv with 12 turns of 23 gauge wire) ... She will hover at 1 click above half throttle and has plenty of power to climb! now I just have to wait for the weather to get back in its right mind and I can fly!
DX6i tutorials...Comments?
This is probably more for the newcomers, but I'm just wondering if a series of videos like the one below would be helpful to people with a DX6i or not.
| DX6i Tutorial #1: Setting up a new model in the Spektrum DX6i (5 min 21 sec) |
Jumping the MERV
Here's a jumping video I made of my Traxxas mini e revo... And yes, I know the first car is a rustler. Anyway, If you like it, check out my channel for tons of other cool rc car videos including some first person view ones! Thanks for watching and Subscribe!
| Mini E-Revo Extreme Jumping (3 min 10 sec) |
CNC router brainstorming
Just a quick video of my ideas for a CNC router because they really intrigued me. This is just me talking about what I'm thinking about for a CNC machine.
| CNC Project Part 1: Brainstorming (4 min 6 sec) |
Finished my second free flight guillowes model... this one's gonna be a display-only model because I painted it and it looks awesome.
Rewound hxt 24g brushless outrunner
Finally successfully rewound my 24g hextronik outrunner (originally 1300kv). I rewound it with 12 turns of 23 gauge wire. Now to test it against a stock 1300kv motor
The Edge is comlete! going to maiden her sometime soon, hopefully tomorrow!
I thought I'd just make a very brief post about how I do control horns. What you need to make these are dental floss picks, a needle-like exacto knife, a dremel tool with cutoff wheel (or something else to cut the floss picks), a sander (optional to make a nice finished look) and a lighter.
1. Cut the floss pick to the desired shape (see pic below) and sand the end to make a nice rounded shape
2. Create a hole for the z-bend or dubro connector
Use a pointy needle-like exacto knife (see pic below) and heat up the tip with the lighter for ~10 seconds. Then, push it through the control horn where you want the control rod to connect
Use a regular exacto knife to clean up the plastic that mushrooms up around the edge
And that's how you make some simple control horns! Hope it's helpful to someone!
1. Cut the floss pick to the desired shape (see pic below) and sand the end to make a nice rounded shape
2. Create a hole for the z-bend or dubro connector
Use a pointy needle-like exacto knife (see pic below) and heat up the tip with the lighter for ~10 seconds. Then, push it through the control horn where you want the control rod to connect
Use a regular exacto knife to clean up the plastic that mushrooms up around the edge
And that's how you make some simple control horns! Hope it's helpful to someone!
Painting my Edge!
I am currently painting my edge! It's looking good with a yellow/blue scheme and it will have black and white checkers underneath
Here's my EPP Edge 540T, nearly complete! just have to install push rods!!!
T-28 trojan covered, waiting to paint
So, my trojan is completely covered and is waiting for some paint! and then it's going on display! We'll see how the painting goes b/c I've never painted tissue before, but I can always re cover it! I'm testing the paint on the stabilizer first.
First EPP build!
Got my first sheet of EPP ever. It was not what I expected it to look like, but I will see how it goes. It is really expensive! Anyway, I am building Leadfeather's Edge 540T out of 10mm EPP instead of 9mm because that's all my hobbyshop had.
here is the plane I'm building
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1119161
here is the plane I'm building
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1119161
Vintage R/C unboxing
My latest shipment of awesome vintage R/C stuff, including a complete, never used Kraft super sport series radio system with the original waranty papers and manual, etc.
| Unboxing of Vintage R/C stuff including Kraft Super Sport Series Radio System (13 min 41 sec) |
Almost done it! I'm so excited to finish it and try flying it!
I was the lucky recipient of a castle phoenix 35 from anixs, and here it is! For those of you doubting his legitimacy, he is awesome and gave me a 35 A esc when the ad was for a 25 A one. Thanks anixs!
Fixed my MCX
I fixed the head hub on my MCX. Instead of putting in the MCX one, I put in the MCX2 one which is much stronger and is part number EFLH2412 or something like that instead of EFLH2212





