Sadly, the "LA street gangs with zagis" post was lost during the great server crash of 2000 IIRC... I got some heat for that one

Originally Posted by tic

Sadly, the "LA street gangs with zagis" post was lost during the great server crash of 2000 IIRC... I got some heat for that one

I remember that thread as being a great source of entertainment!

As an old glow flyer who switched to the quiet/dark side in 2000, the anti glow demonstration sounds like a hoot! Sorry I missed it when posted....

I am a Zagi fan , and will be for a long time !

No mention of tic's time in the penalty box, or the many flagrant fouls. I'm just glad he's back in circulation.

Andy

Yes, one of my most flagrant fouls that resulted in a warning was suggesting someone put their burned up ESC in the microwave for 10 seconds to fix it. I think the detail I went into is what caused the warning, telling the user the microwave should be on medium power and nuked for 10 seconds only... no more, no less. The moderators fear was that the noobie might actually try it

I thought everyone knew you had to use the defrost setting. I have more than one cheap ESC with frosty looking solder joints.

It took me a short while to figure Tic out .... and to understand what his name meant. The Zagi with razor blades was a true Tic classic.

Next Tuesday Tic, next Tuesday you are up to bat.

Originally Posted by rcsoar4fun

I thought everyone knew you had to use the defrost setting. I have more than one cheap ESC with frosty looking solder joints.

I found it better to use the convection oven setting.

Originally Posted by Lufo

I found it better to use the convection oven setting.

Yes. Works great for heat shrink tubing too!

I quit reading Dilbert years ago - I decided that the problem with work was that Dilbert was funny, and my boss was one of many bosses who thought Scott Adams must be the pen name of someone in our office. So, I switched to reading Tic's threads.
Tic's threads got me through to retirement.

WRT to using a microwave on "defrost" to dry out electronics... Microwave power settings work just like ESCs - they can only run at full power. They get reduced power by changing the duty cycle down from 100% in steps of 10%. A full cycle is 10 second (e.g. 30% is on for 3 seconds and off for 7). So setting to defrost (30% on most microwaves) for 10 seconds is just like setting it on full for 3 seconds.

The moderators were probably concerned about giving incorrect instruction on the proper use of a microwave to a newbie. The proper way to reduce power to use a microwave to dry out electronics is to disable the door interlock, so the the excess microwaves can escape through the open door.

- Roger

Originally Posted by gnofliwr

The proper way to reduce power to use a microwave to dry out electronics is to disable the door interlock, so the the excess microwaves can escape through the open door.

May have done that in my youth in a large field with an extension cord and a few cans of Auanet hairspray.