RE: Pepsi vs Coke
If the ONLY two choices are Pepsi or Coke, I prefer Coke. It is, as others have said, sharper, less sweet, and fizzier. But I prefer Squirt.
Posted on: 11/17/2009 5:04 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "Off Topic Forum - Cars, Trucks, Buggies and more"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9260785

RE: ARF and kit builders poll
Just checked the results of the poll. It adds up to 98%. The other 2% don't count? [:o]
Posted on: 11/15/2009 5:49 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "Questions and Answers"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9255808

Heat Shrink Fabric?
I have acquired an old Super Aeromaster that is in pretty sad shape cosmetically but structurally sound. It was originally covered in some kind of material that looks like painted fabric. The wings are still covered but the fuselage is stripped bare. This covering on the wings is really smooth and tight but the paint is very dull. I really don't think I want to add weight by repainting over the original paint, but I would like to retain the painted fabric look. So my question is concerning the availability of a shrink covering that has the fabric look and is intended to be painted. Is there such a product on the market and if there is, what kind of paint would you folks suggest that can be sprayed through an HVLP paint gun? This might be in the wrong forum, but I have faith that a mod will move it if it is.
Posted on: 11/15/2009 4:35 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "Questions and Answers"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9255659

RE: Aircraft Damage Insurance
And what difference does it make how long we've been with the AMA? Do the people with the most time pay the highest premium? And are people who don't belong to the AMA excluded? We have a fairly active field here but it is not an AMA field and I doubt seriously that anyone who flies here belongs to the AMA. Some damned good fliers too.
Posted on: 11/3/2009 11:52 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9226766

RE: I think i got scamed
I'm not sure from your original post if the seller is an RCU member or an RC club member. If you bought this item through RCU, I doubt seriously that RCU would look kindly on his changing the sale conditions after the fact. If the agreement was made outside RCU or some other structured selling agent, your best hope is that the seller will return your money. I can understand the distractions inherent in the moving process - I just went through them myself but that is no excuse for the seller taking the buyer's money and not shipping the product. It would be nice to hear his side of the story.
Posted on: 11/1/2009 12:27 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9220094

RE: Fun-Fly??? Ideas
Do the paint balls hit hard enough to damage an airplane if you were lucky enough to score a hit? I'm thinking that unless the pilot was flying WAAAAY too close to the shooters, there would be very few hits. I haven't seen this done though, so I could be way off base. Sounds like a lot of fun.
Posted on: 10/6/2009 12:42 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9151228

RE: What is the score that RCU assigns to people?
I agree with outdoorhunting that there have been posts that I considered pretty dumb, but we have the option of ignoring them if we wish. The OP probably didn't consider them dumb when he posted them and he more than likely wasn't doing it to attract attention. He may have had a legitimate question about something most of us consider very basic and coupled with poor writing skills, the end result is a post that many of us consider "dumb". Then there are the bottom feeders who intentionally post something really stupid or inflamatory just to see how many responses he can get. I believe those are called "trolling" and they are disgusting.
Posted on: 10/4/2009 12:23 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9145655

RE: Hello All!
Are those fun fly planes or pattern planes?[sm=49_49.gif]
Posted on: 10/2/2009 11:21 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9142551

RE: What's on your building table or next in line?
Enjoyable thread. During the summer, I made several buys and trades. My acquisitions included two GP Super Aeromasters, one NIB, the other very used. I believe before I start another new one, I will uncover, rebuild/repair, and refinish the very used one. I am kind of partial to bipes. This one is presently covered with some kind of fabric and painted. I kind of like the idea or the painted fabric from a scale-like point of view but I am not sure if that is how I will do it. There is plenty of time in re-doing the wood work to think about what I will finish it with.
Posted on: 10/1/2009 5:04 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "Kit Building"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=9139324

RE: All I see is boring planes and boring helicopters
Hey, Live Wire, what is that white bipe in the foreground? Beautiful.
Posted on: 8/1/2009 1:30 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8981474

RE: All I see is boring planes and boring helicopters
Whether this was a troll or not, you have to understand that those folks are not buying and flying for your benefit. They are buying and flying what they can afford and enjoy. If it doesn't thrill you, oh well. They are enjoying it it or they'd quit doing it. At my field, and it is not a large membership, I have seen everything from the old 10 cent balsa gliders that he has put tiny electric pusher motors on and flies around in about a 30-40 foot circle and enjoys the hell out of doing to 1/2 scale multi thousand dollar models turning huge props on gigantic gas engines. Never boring at this field. And in between flights, we sit and tell each other lies that would entertain anyone. You're at the wrong field[;)].
Posted on: 7/31/2009 10:43 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8980327

RE: History of fighters
Now, here is a thread I have really enjoyed. Keep 'em coming boys. As a side note, I'm kind of glad to see the MiG29 has sort of fallen out of the list. Unless I am wrong, it was devloped to directly counter the F15 but never had the success of the F15. But, then, no aircraft in history has the kill ratio of the F15, something like 104-0.
Posted on: 7/28/2009 11:42 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "RC Warbirds and Warplanes"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8972475

RE: How did you come up with the names?
;. I gradually became knows as JollyPopper or simply JP. Then when the internet came along, it was very
Posted on: 7/27/2009 5:30 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8968453

RE: *Help me locate stolen jet!*Seeking buyer of AD F-16/p-120 in May from Orlando, FL hobby shop
I believe it was post 49 that you said you own a "debt settlement company". Is that a kinder and gentler term for "collection agency"?
Posted on: 7/26/2009 8:14 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "RC Jets"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8966026

RE: What kind of plane is this?
If I remember the reports accurately, the B24 had a better record in every way during WWII, including more missions, better return rate, etc., but the airmen still preferred the B17, probably because it LOOKED like an airplane is supposed to look.
Posted on: 7/15/2009 1:22 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "Beginners"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8935670

RE: Minor Hinge Repair Hopefully
I'm not clear how bumping the elevator could dislocate one hinge and it still be firmly attached to both the horizontal stabilizer and the elevator. Are you sure the elevator was not like this all along and you just didn't notice? I suspect the original builder inadvertently did this in his building of the plane. If the elevator is warped and turned down on one end, replace and recover the entire thing. It appears to be a single piece of balsa, not a built up piece, so it would be easy to do. As far as re-hinging is concerned, you will have to make new slots in the horizontal stabilizer alongside the old slots and cut matching slots in the new elevator. As far as I know, nobody has devised a way to remove a CA hinge from balsa without shredding the balsa. If the elevator is flat and the hinges just not centered in the stab causing it to be low on one end, just cut new slots in both the stab. and the elevator alongside the old ones and re-hinge. Once these CA hinges are secured in balsa, it is virtually impossible to remove them without destroying the balsa unless someone has come up with a technique that I am unfamiliar with.
Posted on: 7/15/2009 12:54 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "Beginners"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8935608

RE: Great Planes
Sounds like maybe the lady at Great Planes should be instructed to transfer such calls from the "wholesale" division to the "retail" division. If she would simply say "Hold on while I transfer the call", with a smile in her voice, everyone would be happy and the customer would not even know that he is being transferred from one part of the business to another. Sounds like a classic case of the left hand not only not knowing what the right hand is doing, it is told to ignore the fact that the right hand even exists.
Posted on: 7/13/2009 11:29 AM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8928898

Hanging airplanes
Does anyone hang airplanes from the props? I have a small outbuilding with exposed rafters from which I could hang a lot of planes if it does them no harm. If a loop were passed around the prop and tightened so that the plane is hanging from very near the hub of the prop, can any damage be done? The fuel, if any, would be at the bottom of the tank, the clunk would be down. What can it hurt? Flex the prop and cause it to take a permanent set maybe? Anyone?????????
Posted on: 7/9/2009 4:26 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8919611

RE: For those that want to be self taught...
I bought my first airplane/radio/engine in 1972. Since then, I've lived in several different states and have seen many folks come and go in this hobby. One thing I have observed in that time is that there is a small percentage of folks who are going to do it on their own no matter what anyone says. This can be due to any number of reasons. Then I joined RCU along about 2002 or so. There is an absolute wealth of information available here that is free to anyone who cares to look. However, one thing I have never understood is the number of people here who are obviously good guys and great flyers but are so quick to make anyone who dares to attempt to do it on their own some kind of second rate citizen lower than Osama bin Laden. How many guys who had the nerve to say they were going to attempt to learn to fly on their own have we driven from the hobby before they even got started by insisting they could not do it without and instructor. Instead, why don't we encourage them and give them any help they ask for to bring them into the fold? We, as a hobby, need them. Would it be better if they started with an instructor. Surely. Should we initially suggest they get an instructor. Certainly. But when it becomes clear that that is not going to happen, why don't we then give them all the advice and encouragement we can and assure them that thay can do it on their own rather than insisting that they are fools, cheap, stupid, and irresponsible to even think they could do it? Some of them can and will make it. And some of the posts I have read here bad-mouthing those who insist on doing it without an instructor would discourage the most determined. Why do we do that? It's no skin off our noses. Is it just that we can't handle someone having an opinion different from ours? We need these people in the hobby regardless of how they learn it. Lets encourage and help them.
Posted on: 7/5/2009 2:55 AM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "Beginners"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8907376

RE: Safe to buy from ebay shop RC Sausage Dog
All of the OS plugs that I have really paid any attention to were stamped as such on one of the flats. Is someone making knock offs with the same stamping? Maybe OS doesn't stamp all of their plugs and I just never noticed?
Posted on: 6/29/2009 4:39 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8891673

RE: RCU Roll call time..Where are you from?
Mountain Home, Arkansas via St. Louis, Missouri. Go Tigers and Razorbacks and Arizona Cardinals.
Posted on: 6/3/2009 5:53 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "Beginners"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8823196

RE: Question - Why do we promote clubs?
I am always a little put off by people who say that if an individual can afford an RC airplane, he can afford to join a club and the AMA. That just simply is not true. I am sure there are folks who desperately want to fly who can somehow scrape the money together to put a plane in the air a couple of times a month but can't afford the extra hundred or two hundred dollars for the club and AMA . Come on folks, there are people out there who have very little money but the same desires as the guys who $200.00 means nothing to. Hell, it's home owner's insurance that is going to pay for an accident anyway, not AMA. I've asked the question in this site a couple of times if anyone had personally collected a penny from AMA and have never had a response. Everybody "knows" someone who has collected from AMA, but nobody has actually done it.
Posted on: 6/2/2009 10:11 AM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "Beginners"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8819265

RE: OS .46 exhaust on a Towerhobbies .46??
RTV (room temperature vulcanizing) comes in several different heat ranges, bathtub caulk being the lowest temp range and high temp stuff used around the hottest parts of an internal combustion engine being the highest. You can get the high temp stuff at any automotive store and it will live in RC exhaust temp applications. Very easy to use and will peel right off if you need to remove the muffler for any reason. After the stuff sets up, trim off what oozed out from under the mating surfaces. That stuff is not doing anything useful and the finished product will look much cleaner and neater than if you leave this stuff flapping in the wind.
Posted on: 5/25/2009 11:57 AM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "Beginners"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8796823

RE: ANY IDEAS?
Somebody in here might know, but you would probably have more luck asking the question in the car forums. This is airplane forums.
Posted on: 5/25/2009 11:22 AM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8796757

RE: Pretty uncomfortable experience today...
In reply to TexasSkyPilot's observation that instructors are fewer these days, it might be in part due to the recent idea that the instructor is somehow to blame if a student crashes his plane. If I thought I had to replace a crashed plane because I was helping a novice, I would certainly have to think long and hard about helping. Even when I was learning to drive, I would not even have thought about blaming my instructor if I had an automobile accident.
Posted on: 5/25/2009 10:55 AM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "Beginners"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8796696

RE: Pretty uncomfortable experience today...
I'm not quite clear as to whether the owner of the crashed airplane tried to lay a guilt trip on you or whether you are taking it on yourself. You had only two choices when he asked for your help: 1) do what you did and hope he could fly the plane to a successful landing and everybody feels good, or 2) refuse to help and possibly be considered a real jerk. He was gonna fly it anyway and probably crash it whether you helped or not. Whether you are a recognized instructor or not is of no importance. A guy brings a plane to the field to fly, he has to accept the idea that nobody is gonna do anything to deliberately contribute to his crashing. And he has to accept the concept before hand that if he asks someone to help him, that someone is going to do his best to help That is simply the nature of our hobby. Everyone In the hobby tries to help and wants the newbie to be successful. The more people who are successul in our hobby, the better off we all are. A man asking for help (instruction) has to assume the helper (instructor) is not responsible for whatever happens. A guy brings his plane to the field, asks for help, the airplane ends up crashed, it's on the shoulders of the owner. Period. As soneone mentioned earlier, we start holding a helper or instructor responsible for a poor outcome, nobody is going to be willing to help. At that point, this hobby is doomed.
Posted on: 5/24/2009 1:45 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "Beginners"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8794630

RE: wild beginner questions
Off the subject, that last post struck me funny. Obviously the phrase "knocking one up" means something entirely different to an Aussie than it does to us yanks.
Posted on: 5/21/2009 8:32 AM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "RC Radios, Transmitters, Receivers, Servos, gyros"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8786992

RE: Bolt/YThread standards
My guess is that it's simply poor quality control of something that is supposed to be a standard size. I doubt that a model accessory company has contracted with a hardware producing company to design and produce a new thread/socket head size. That would be absurdly costly and to what point?
Posted on: 5/21/2009 8:07 AM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8786957

RE: What's your take?
I once made an absurdly low bid on a brand name engine on Ebay and "won" it. A couple days later I received an email from the seller saying he "knocked the engine off his work bench and broke it." Right. I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that it went for about 1/3 or what it was worth, but that is the chance you take in an auction. The point is that there are jerks out there. This guy had a moral obligation to you even though he had no legal obligation. He should have sold it to you. He's a jerk.
Posted on: 5/20/2009 1:05 PM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "The Clubhouse"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8784699

RE: Anybody use cheap battery on Spektrum dx6i?
Well, now, that certainly clears up the question of whether he was asking a serious question.
Posted on: 5/13/2009 1:41 AM by Author "JollyPopper" in the forum "RC Radios, Transmitters, Receivers, Servos, gyros"
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/fb.asp?m=8764644