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  1. Xpress

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    I tried to get some shop time in last night but it was so hot out that all I did was play music and chill inside of there to keep cool (it's always around 75* in there)! What a way to start out summer, today's high will probably be in the 110* range... :too-cool::oblong: (and yes I'm perfectly...
  2. Xpress

    The I'm going out flying thread 2016

    Flew my little Slick today, finally got to try out the new prop. Feels solid :cool:
  3. Xpress

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    No pictures, but I did get to work on tidying up my shop last night. Few more nights of work down there and I think it should be back up to snuff :)
  4. Xpress

    The Rolling Harrier

    The rhythm has worked for me for years so yes it's a good way to start to learn how to do it. But when you're letting a set of parameters control your airplane, there's only so much you will be able to do before other outside elements can mess with it. Eventually you'll learn how to modify your...
  5. Xpress

    The Rolling Harrier

    As Kyle Woyshnis once told me... Don't get into a rhythm, just correct the airplane as it rolls around. That was the hardest part for me is figuring out how to break my rhythm and just actively correct the airplane as it rolls around on the deck. When you figure this out, the airplane looks so...
  6. Xpress

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    That's easy. You wrap them all up in a nice sheet of bubble wrap, stick them in a nice sturdy cardboard box, and mail them to @Xpress to let him deal with it... :epic:
  7. Xpress

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    My other obsession....
  8. Xpress

    Triple Tree Aerodrome, AOPA Mag Article

    It is definitely a world class facility. I look forward to attending again in the future.
  9. Xpress

    Where should build and assembly threads be? POLL, please vote!

    I say create new sub forums. Make a 3D section where all of the content about 3D flying goes, then an IMAC section for IMACers, then scale for the scale dudes, jets, so on and so forth. It's easier if you have a dedicated forum to keep the specific content in that forum.
  10. Xpress

    The I'm going out flying thread 2016

    My Yak is power hungry with them huge ailerons :mario-banana: My 91" Slick on the other hand I can probably manage 35+ flights on one set of 1900 packs without recharging :brian-banana:
  11. Xpress

    The I'm going out flying thread 2016

    The packs just aren't holding up anymore, they probably have 4-500 cycles on them by now. After 2 flights with me behind the sticks, they're hitting almost 6.0v under load. I have some fresh new Pulse 5000 packs coming in the main to replace the Fromeco's.
  12. Xpress

    The I'm going out flying thread 2016

    2 flights is about all I can manage to get out of the Fromeco 5200 packs on my 107" Yak now before they sag down to the 6.0v range. Too low for me to keep flying, there's always tomorrow. Sealing the elevator hinge gaps made the pitch SO much more responsive. I was not expecting it to spin as...
  13. Xpress

    Share your ideas for safe pre-flight and flying

    My routine involves always charging packs up the night before and giving the fuselage a brief once over. They sit inside the shop all week after the previous weekends flying so the theory is that nothing should have changed from the last post flight inspection, but we all know that theories are...
  14. Xpress

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    Also just ordered up some new Pulse 2s 5000 Rx packs for the Yak since the Fromeco's are getting a bit dated.
  15. Xpress

    The 3DRCForums -Discuss Anything Thread-

    Looks like the plan is to go flying tomorrow!!!
  16. Xpress

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    Did some more much needed TLC to the Yak last night. Removed all of the elevator servo screws and ran CA back down in the holes to harden them back up and put it all back together. I was missing one screw which prompted me to do that. I also went over the covering on both elevator halves to seal...
  17. Xpress

    Hitec HS7954SH on 5,9V?

    You can just round it up to 6.0v since 5.9v is so close, it'll perform almost exactly at the 6.0v specs.
  18. Xpress

    The 3DRCForums -Discuss Anything Thread-

    So anybody flying this weekend?
  19. Xpress

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    We've been having a bug infestation lately so we've gone through about 10 gallons of insect killer in our 1/3 acre property this week alone! But last night I was able to sneak away for pretty much the whole afternoon and work on the Yak. Since I took the cans out the airplane became super...
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    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    Funny... My aunt got one of those for her desert home and it works amazing. The house may not be all that big, but it sure does make it a comfortable escape from the heat.
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