Monday, 16 January 2017

Need Space

16 January 2017

  1. Wright Flyer (strip and throw, or use Cheerson's components?)
  2. Nieuport (repair and keep)
  3. carpark flyer (throw)
  4. Piper Pawnee (throw)
  5. Sakura
  6. Flea
  7. Rogallo

26 October 2016

Scrapped the Blackburn Monoplane yesterday.
To dispose off old models, operable or requiring work: (13/18)
    1. Hot Liner  (Returned Chris)
    2. Wright Flyer (strip and throw, or use Cheerson's components?)
    3. Blackburn Mono (strip and throw, remember the alcohol tip!)
    4. Piper Cub  (Reserved Wong)
    5. Armstrong  (Sam)
    6. Kassim's Flying wing (Given Wong)
    7. F14  (throw, good proportion for slope soarer but I doubt it is suitable for Bedok)
    8. 2 pcs Katana's wing (throw)
    9. Canard  (strip and throw)
    10. Pou du Ceil (strip and throw)
    11. Zero  (Wong)
    12. Nieuport (repair and keep)
    13. Yak 3 (strip and throw)
    14. Chinook  (strip and throw)
    15. D332  (strip and throw)
    16. WBP1 (throw)
    17. carpark flyer (throw)
    18. Piper Pawnee (throw)

12 April 2016

Recently I am feeling uncomfortable surrounded by too many models (broken or requiring 'touch-up') and the general mess of pheraphenalia that comes with this hobby. So last night, I skipped the TV, which was boring anyway and spent an hour to strip out the Farman D332 and throw out the WBP-1. There was a box of parts salvaged from previous crashes and I discarded them, retaining, oh my, so many used but usable servos, receivers, esc, etc. They were placed in the servo/rx storage box where many new and unused components reside. Good that I discovered that I have so many new components now, because I was thinking of buying 3 more 1.25mm pin 1.6gm servos from Banggood yesterday!

With so many things in my room, it is no wonder that I am feeling uncomfortable!

Superglue/Hotglue Removal Tip

There is this tip on FliteTest about using denatured alcohol to debond hotglued components.
While taking out the electronic components from the Farman D332, I found that it works a treat, even though I used superglue and didn't use hotglue.

Next de-Clutter Exercise

My next de-clutter exercise is to pack up two of my lipo-chargers. I will leave one on the shelf, it will be the imitation copy of IMAX because it has the additional feature of providing power to my guitar wire foam cutting hack-saw bow. And I think I shall abandon the carpark flyer and Piper Pawnee project, afterall, I have had my fun and now that the interest is gone, I should throw them away since there is no point continuiing with something that holds no interest. If I shall be interested again, I can always do them again, they are quick to build.
  • lipo chargers
  • carpark flyer and Piper Pawnee
  • Transmitters
  • Glues

 Inventory and Ideas Update

Current models (10 working (not including repeats), 3 kits, 1 coming):
Flying Flea, Cootie, Kirby Cadet, 2 pcs V911 (how shall I pack them up? I don't use them anyway), 2 pcs V977 (need to replace one feathering spindle soon), rubber powered ornithopter (I don't use it anymore, should I throw?), capacitor ornithopter, electric RC ornithopter, Cheerson CX10A and a Walkera V120 helicopter. In my closet there is a glider kit that was made in Korea, a ME109, a Canard. Soon to be joined by a Eachine quad.

The Future list:
  1. FRED
  2. Baby Ace
  3. Nicolas Claude NC2. Aquilon
  4. Le Tandem SFCA, Peyret Taupin
  5. Whitehead No. 21
  6. EPB1c
  7. Hanglider weight shift
  8. Micro-popwing: something like a mini-popwing but without motor
  9. James Bond's BN2 Islander
  10. Any plane that I can do with Cheerson (maybe the Wright Flyer?)
  11. Sopwith Pup and Triplane
  12. Yet another Gee Bee Sportster

To dispose off old models, operable or requiring work: (12/18)
    1. Hot Liner  (Returned Chris)
    2. Wright Flyer (strip and throw, or use Cheerson's components?)
    3. Blackburn Mono (strip and throw, remember the alcohol tip!)
    4. Piper Cub  (Reserved Wong)
    5. Armstrong  (Sam)
    6. Kassim's Flying wing (Given Wong)
    7. F14  (throw, good proportion for slope soarer but I doubt it is suitable for Bedok)
    8. 2 pcs Katana's wing (throw)
    9. Canard  (strip and throw)
    10. Pou du Ceil (strip and throw)
    11. Zero  (Wong)
    12. Nieuport (repair and keep)
    13. Yak 3 (strip and throw)
    14. Chinook  (strip and throw)
    15. D332  (strip and throw)
    16. WBP1 (throw)
    17. carpark flyer (throw)
    18. Piper Pawnee (throw)

5 April 2016

Alright! I gave this quadruplane to Sam.









13 January 2016

Did a Flying Flea again. This time it is flyable. Lost a V977 to a tree. Bought an electric ornithopter. Building a carpark flyer. The 3rd V977 arrived.

Current models:
Flying Flea, Cootie (solder board), Kirby Cadet, 2 pcs V911, 2 pcs V977 (the other was in a tree), and 1 rubber powered ornithopter to fly, 1 electric ornithopter to assemble and fly, carpark flyer and a Piper Pawnee to complete. Oh, and a glider kit that was made in Korea, with undercambered airfoil, to be assembled.

So the new lists:
  1. FRED
  3. Baby Ace
  4. Nicolas Claude NC2. Aquilon
  5. Le Tandem SFCA, Peyret Taupin
  6. Whitehead No. 21
  7. EPB1c
  8. Hanglider weight shift
  9. Micro-popwing: something like a mini-popwing but without motor
  10. James Bond's BN2 Islander
  11. HP 42 using Cheerson (because I suspect my board is burnt out too!)
  12. Sopwith Pup and Triplane
  13. Yet another Gee Bee Sportster

To dispose off old models, operable or requiring work: (8/16)
    1. Hot Liner  (Returned Chris)
    2. Wright Flyer (strip and throw)
    3. Blackburn Mono (strip and throw)
    4. Piper Cub  (Reserved Wong)
    5. Armstrong  (strip and throw)
    6. Kassim's Flying wing (Given Wong)
    7. F14  (throw, good proportion for slope soarer but I doubt it is suitable for Bedok)
    8. 2 pcs Katana's wing (throw)
    9. Canard  (strip and throw)
    10. Pou du Ceil (strip and throw)
    11. Zero  (Wong)
    12. Nieuport (repair and keep)
    13. Yak 3 (strip and throw)
    14. Chinook  (strip and throw)
    15. D332  (strip and throw or repair and keep?)
    16. WBP1 (throw)

16 December 2015

Gave away lipos since I'm not using them and they don't keep well.


















Added a ornithopter.


21 November 2015

I still have Cootie, Kirby Cadet, 2 pcs V911, 2 pcs V977, and 1 rubber powered ornithopter to fly and a Piper Pawnee to complete.
I plan to do, or think/dream about:
  1. FRED
  2. Pou du Ciel
  3. Baby Ace
  4. Nicolas Claude NC2. Aquilon
  5. Le Tandem SFCA, Peyret Taupin
  6. Whitehead No. 21
  7. EPB1c
  8. Hanglider weight shift
  9. Micro-popwing: something like a mini-popwing but without motor
  10. James Bond's BN2 Islander
  11. HP 42 using Cheerson
  12. Sopwith Pup and Triplane

27 October 2015

How about getting rid of models that I have lost interest?

To dispose off old models, operable or requiring work: (7/16)
    1. Hot Liner  (Returned Chris)
    2. Wright Flyer (strip and throw)
    3. Blackburn Mono (strip and throw)
    4. Piper Cub  (Reserved Wong)
    5. Armstrong  (strip and throw)
    6. Kassim's Flying wing (strip and throw)
    7. F14  (throw, good proportion for slope soarer but I doubt it is suitable for Bedok)
    8. 2 pcs Katana's wing (throw)
    9. Canard  (strip and throw)
    10. Pou du Ceil (strip and throw)
    11. Zero  (Wong)
    12. Nieuport (repair and keep)
    13. Yak 3 (strip and throw)
    14. Chinook  (strip and throw)
    15. D332  (strip and throw or repair and keep?)
    16. WBP1 (throw)


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