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  1. AKNick

    Electronic Carburetor/Roto 85 FS Install

    The 1250's are nice servos!
  2. AKNick

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    Yes you do. Fly more often already! (How hypocritical of me!)
  3. AKNick

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    That guy was probably me. I've had two fail, and lightly crimped. I was going to try thermal paste but it doesn't harden which had my concerns with vibration. I have some Dowsil 340 lying around which is good for about 400F, Your MX-6 is good for 300F Continuous use it looks like. I might have...
  4. AKNick

    Scale 20cc DHC-2 "Beaver" Kit Build from Moustache Model Works

    All you guys progressing on your builds.... hmmmmmm. This poor plane has some dust on it. I was working on the floats a while back and stopped to work on my light system and kinda burned myself out. I enjoy problem solving but there was a long list that grew at every detour I took to avoid the...
  5. AKNick

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

    You're going to have to bring that over to santas workshop
  6. AKNick

    News Happy Thanksgiving

    Happy Thanksgiving Weekend! Nice Job on the brisket! We smoked a couple small turkeys for our family gathering. I'd rather smoke chicken to be honest! For the last couple Christmas dinners we've smoked a brisket as well. Used to use fancy custom rubs and one day I decided to just cover that...
  7. AKNick

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

    As a 18SZ user, keep talking. What do you like? I dont like the price of the Powerbox stuff
  8. AKNick

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

    jokes on you guys, snowless so far here in Southeast Alaska
  9. AKNick

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    Not the Yak! Had one of my flying buddies swing by and he asked me how much for my 75" Edge. Feel like I basically gave it away. But in order for planes to come... some must go! He'll have good fun with it. Here's the build thread I put on it in 2018...
  10. AKNick

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

    Took the floats off my 120" TBM and found some popped factory glue joints at the strut bulkheads. Got these ones from Tim before he closed NWRC, first season flying them and only ever made it out 4-5 times. That's going to take some work this winter, I decided to hang them up for the season...
  11. AKNick

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    I was way more primitive. Had a micro servo on a cam system to the receiver on a three position switch utilizing two micro switches. EG: POS 1 off, POS 2 strobes/nav/beacon ON, POS 3 Landing light wig wags in addition to POS 2. Was quite fun to create and make this system. I made two of them...
  12. AKNick

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Back when I made a fading beacon it was running off a 12V lipo with a 555 timer, NPN transistor, 220 Capacitor, and Resistors to step down the voltage. Your approach would create a more stable voltage
  13. AKNick

    Yippee! What the postman brought

    I think I have an idea what happened. ELRS reserves channel 5 for arming. I fought this until I had to connect the rx to wifi and reconfigure that channel to work like a normal servo channel. Sounds familiar to what you may have ran into. I know you're done but just thought it might end that...
  14. AKNick

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    I'm a circle master with a glider! Just saying there's nobody to take on my older stuff
  15. AKNick

    Yippee! What the postman brought

    It's not very intuitive that for sure. You're a stronger man than I am to just call it quits... Although I'm thinking you might be on to something.
  16. AKNick

    Yippee! What the postman brought

    I’ve spent hours trying to figure out how to make my throttle trigger on the MT12 work for my little airboat. It’s pulling my hair out. It’ll work from full rev off so the motor goes forward when released and when inverted it’s the other way. I cannot figure out how to recalibrate so the neutral...
  17. AKNick

    Yippee! What the postman brought

    I'll second Balsa Dust with a DLG being the hardest to program let alone on a new radio!! One thing that helped me was the radio has a built in airplane format when you create a new model. I'm running in circles with all the strange formatting as well. I got the MT12 surface radio with ELRS...
  18. AKNick

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    Come over to Alaska and warm up! Don't worry snow/rain forecasted on sunday/mon. I'm for some odd reason thinking I'll go bring the boat out again before winterizing. Fall has been relentless storms one after another. Maybe I'll drag a line in the harbor to just say I did it and start my...
  19. AKNick

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    I do really love that scheme. "cooling down to 87" it was 41F here this morning and currently pouring rain!
  20. AKNick

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    Fall has been in full swing here. Snow is up in the mountain peaks and slowly getting lower.
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