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Here is some info on OS FS-61 four stroke glow engines. I may be editing it for a little while.
I found a reciept in an FS-61 box here:
Dated 6-14-1986 for 1:45pm. $161.80 after tax.
So i have a few different OS-FS-61 Exhaust systems, prop nuts and washers. They all came with FS-61 engines. The Drive washers are all the same, fyi. I will go into more detail...
Exhausts
Notice: The FS-61 does not require exhaust back pressure to run properly.
One exhaust system i have includes a legit full-size muffler which is like a Saito 'can style' system of yore. It has an elbow-style manifold which screws into both engine and muffler like a Saito. The muffler looks to be OS OEM, but is considered optional for the FS-61. The Manifold may be from another engine.
I believe the Muffler is an OS piece because It is featured in an article in Sceptre Flight. The manifold looks different. I sold a system like this, a while back, from another FS-61.
The other exhaust system looks exactly same as on the FS-40 'Pre-Surpass.' It is 2 parts, like on an Enya 46-4C. It consists of a standalone pipe which can be run independently without back pressure. Or the pipe may be connected to a 'small chamber' via 2 setscrews which are on the chamber.
The 'small chamber' looks like a tiny muffler, but is actually only used for exhaust back-pressure and is not meant to reduce noise.
I am assuming this second exhaust system came with the FS-61 as standard, according to an article by Peter Chinn in...Continue Reading
I found a reciept in an FS-61 box here:
Dated 6-14-1986 for 1:45pm. $161.80 after tax.
So i have a few different OS-FS-61 Exhaust systems, prop nuts and washers. They all came with FS-61 engines. The Drive washers are all the same, fyi. I will go into more detail...
Exhausts
Notice: The FS-61 does not require exhaust back pressure to run properly.
One exhaust system i have includes a legit full-size muffler which is like a Saito 'can style' system of yore. It has an elbow-style manifold which screws into both engine and muffler like a Saito. The muffler looks to be OS OEM, but is considered optional for the FS-61. The Manifold may be from another engine.
I believe the Muffler is an OS piece because It is featured in an article in Sceptre Flight. The manifold looks different. I sold a system like this, a while back, from another FS-61.
The other exhaust system looks exactly same as on the FS-40 'Pre-Surpass.' It is 2 parts, like on an Enya 46-4C. It consists of a standalone pipe which can be run independently without back pressure. Or the pipe may be connected to a 'small chamber' via 2 setscrews which are on the chamber.
The 'small chamber' looks like a tiny muffler, but is actually only used for exhaust back-pressure and is not meant to reduce noise.
I am assuming this second exhaust system came with the FS-61 as standard, according to an article by Peter Chinn in...Continue Reading
If you followed my blog post #5 about native MAVLink telemetry with RadioMaster TX16S, you are aware that we can use the TX16S top USB-C port in MAVLink routing mode to connect to a ground control station, such as Mission Planner or QGroundControl. To recap, I add the connection image from my blog post #5:
Without the modification to the radio hardware, as explained in this post, there is one caveat when using the top USB-C port connected to ground control station. This has to do with the specialty of the internal STM32 microcontroller, as used in most OpenTX radios, and the schematic wiring used. Namely, the main microcontroller of TX16S boots in Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU) mode when the USB cable is connected while the radio is powered-up and thus will NOT boot and run the normal OpenTX firmware. You will get a black screen when powering up in DFU mode and no functionality from the radio.
This behavior stems from otherwise a very nice feature of the STM32 microcontroller in the radio that allows it to be flashed without external programming device, even if no bootloader is yet programmed. (This is also the reason, why most OpenTX radios cannot be bricked by user doing something wrong while flashing.) Unfortunately, STM32 DFU paired with the electrical schematic in most OpenTX radios, where the BOOT0 pin hard-wired to VBUS, results in the before mentioned behavior of radio not booting in this situation. The solution is either to disconnect the USB cable from ground...Continue Reading
Without the modification to the radio hardware, as explained in this post, there is one caveat when using the top USB-C port connected to ground control station. This has to do with the specialty of the internal STM32 microcontroller, as used in most OpenTX radios, and the schematic wiring used. Namely, the main microcontroller of TX16S boots in Device Firmware Upgrade (DFU) mode when the USB cable is connected while the radio is powered-up and thus will NOT boot and run the normal OpenTX firmware. You will get a black screen when powering up in DFU mode and no functionality from the radio.
This behavior stems from otherwise a very nice feature of the STM32 microcontroller in the radio that allows it to be flashed without external programming device, even if no bootloader is yet programmed. (This is also the reason, why most OpenTX radios cannot be bricked by user doing something wrong while flashing.) Unfortunately, STM32 DFU paired with the electrical schematic in most OpenTX radios, where the BOOT0 pin hard-wired to VBUS, results in the before mentioned behavior of radio not booting in this situation. The solution is either to disconnect the USB cable from ground...Continue Reading
As a long time Futaba tray transmitter user, I was used to having additional controls on my sticks, e.g. to control a camera gimbal. After making a jump to OpenTX, got myself TX16S and made a tray modification (see my blog post #7). Nevertheless, I was still missing my old beloved stick controls.
I could not find readily available commercial solution for TX16S, so went the road of customization. Here's the final result:
The trickiest part is to get a hollow shaft into the existing sticks, as they are from solid material with a M4 thread:
I disassembled the TX16S hall sticks and very carefully in a lathe I was able to drill 2.0 mm through-holes into the stick pins:
...Continue Reading
I could not find readily available commercial solution for TX16S, so went the road of customization. Here's the final result:
The trickiest part is to get a hollow shaft into the existing sticks, as they are from solid material with a M4 thread:
I disassembled the TX16S hall sticks and very carefully in a lathe I was able to drill 2.0 mm through-holes into the stick pins:
...Continue Reading
Yep Les Amis,
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- TABLEAU DES PROMOS ET COUPONS BANGGOOD 2020 RC et ACCESSOIRES (remis à jour quotidiennement, en utilisant ces liens,...Continue Reading
YACINE devient mon Coach officiel ! lol. Cette vidéo devait être, au départ, une review relax et assez courte .. et bien c'est raté, désolé
! 4 sujets vont être abordés, le sujet principal c'est le test, comme promis, de la nouvelle enceinte nomade PA01 de chez BOMAKER. Puissante, autonome et très polyvalente, cette mini sono mobile sera très efficace dans différentes activités, animation, karaoké, coaching etc... Le son et la puissance sont au rendez vous et les possibilités nombreuses. En bref, un produit intéressant à un tarif plutôt raisonnable. 3 autres sujets seront abordés, un concours dans la vidéo, un live en prévision et un petit débat sur le nouveau pack DJI FPV avant de le recevoir pour des tests sur le terrain... Bon Film et merci à tous pour votre soutien .| Bomaker PA01 Enceinte Bluetooth Karaoke Nomade - Review Test Démo - DJI FPV, on en parle ? (54 min 21 sec) |
NOTATAZ : 18/20 La puissance nomade, défi FPV !
Pack DJI FPV COMBO en précommande 1072€ avec ces coupon BGAFF10OFF ou BGCuponation10 ou BGhoney2110 : http://bit.ly/307Ww3Z
MASQUE DJI V2 en précommande 490€ (coupon BGfpv30 ) : http://bit.ly/307Aqi6
- Enceinte BOMAKER (AMAZON.FR) : https://amzn.to/3dQ8yXI
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- TABLEAU DES PROMOS ET COUPONS BANGGOOD 2020 RC et ACCESSOIRES (remis à jour quotidiennement, en utilisant ces liens,...Continue Reading
Being previously a long time Futaba tray radio user and being accustomed to controlling sticks by pinching, I put my TX16S into a tray.
AHLtec offers two tray options for TX16S: a fiberglass and a carbon. I picked the carbon version for optics. And as I was planning to use spatially slightly separated DragonLink, instead of the internal radio MULTI-module, the vicinity to large electrically conductive carbon surfaces was less of a concern for me.
The AHLtec tray comes as a kit and needs to be assembled. It fits TX16S perfectly, the build quality of the carbon parts is excellent. I had to file a bit the mounting holes in the metal braces in order for them to perfectly fit and not damage the thread of the screws during assembly.
...Continue Reading
AHLtec offers two tray options for TX16S: a fiberglass and a carbon. I picked the carbon version for optics. And as I was planning to use spatially slightly separated DragonLink, instead of the internal radio MULTI-module, the vicinity to large electrically conductive carbon surfaces was less of a concern for me.
The AHLtec tray comes as a kit and needs to be assembled. It fits TX16S perfectly, the build quality of the carbon parts is excellent. I had to file a bit the mounting holes in the metal braces in order for them to perfectly fit and not damage the thread of the screws during assembly.
...Continue Reading
Hehehehehe
Believe it or not ! Yeah , thats a hotgucam .
Short Story Time .
I got me these ELE cams a long time ago when they were like all the rage ! The all black cam suffered a LCD fail , as in it simply stopped working . But the cam recorded video just fine , I just had no LCD image .
Recently the other ELE cam has started corrupting video
.. Its a dull - windy Saturday afternoon - so what to do ?
I know , I will butcher the corrupted cam for it's LCD screen and also to see how the cam is ass-embled
Having removed the LCD screen from the corrupting cam I did a LCD swap ..
Black cam now has a working LCD screen , but .......
Was the original LCD screen faulty ?
So I plugged it into the now some what FUBAR ELE cam to see if the screen worked ...
Oh yeah , it worked ! What a terrible dilemma , the FUBAR cam might actually still function ( ok it was corrupting video ) . But it is a dull Saturday afternoon , so what else to do ? Yeah , just got to Frankenstein it back together with some hot glue .
Actually , I only had some 4 spare cams
.. I could have just tossed the corrupting cam in the rubbish bin and swapped in one of the parked cams . But that would simply have meant I was still bored !
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| $9 23 knife at the rope (12 min 4 sec) |
Some times , rarely - But some times . You have a win ! This knife has been teasing me for about a year now . And for my birthday I got some winning lottery tickets ( Chump Change ) .
Yeah , the wins were chump change as far as lottery wins go but ... enough money to buy a $9.23 knife that's been calling out to me for around 12 months or so . I mean , who am I not to fall for that siren song
A) For $9.23 it's really well made , no play - everything is tight - I mean nothing to complain about .
B) The factory edge was paper slicing sharp - That was a surprise - especially at the price point of 9 bananas .
C) The grind was ok except that each side was at a different angle - A lot of companies are doing that !
D) I mean , this is a no name budget junk knife right ?
Slicing rope :
Factory edge .......... Well that factory edge gave 80 slices which is almost double what I was expecting !
180 grit Diamond cut edge .......
This is where things got very interesting . Really interesting ! Especially if you like good cheap knives . Cheap and good dont usually go together ! when talking knives ( Until today ) Around 70 slices I noticed the edge was having issue getting through the edge of the paper , I suspected that the edge might be rolling . And the edge had in deed rolled . But the knife kept going and the roll started to diminish . The knife just kept going till the edge failed after 240 slices . 240 slices of rope out of a $9.23 knife . That is crazy .... This knife kicks a lot of more expensive knives to the curb . I cant even begin to rubbish Brand name knife makers enough when a cheap knife outperforms more expensive bragged about knives .
Yeah , buying a knife is like buying a lottery ticket ... Some times you win !
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Almost lost the motor and prop prop due to weak plastic firewall. -
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Note a Fox 3000 wing tip skid wheels hotglued for landing rollout . -
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Wheels keep tips from touching runway surface except for Hough crsswinds. -
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Night Radian is a little smaller than the 95†(2.4 m) Heron
