RE: Modeler or ARfer?
I used to be a modeler, then I took an arrow in the knee. anyone get that video game reference? no? i guess everyone is building and not playing VGs in the off season [:D] i started with modeling by using a coping saw to cut out parts from ply for model ships and planes back when i was 9-10 or so, building them from plans or scratch. Nowadays, i "assemble" helis (can't be buying an expensive CNC machine just to "build" them [X(]) and fly foamies to my heart's content. How many of those who build ever forgo the convenience of laser-cut parts when they don't have to? I certainly would too, but it would be nice to get all nostalgic and get out a coping saw again. I just don't feel like piling up saw dust from cutting and sanding all over my 700 sq ft apartment. Airbrushing my plastic model kits is already bad enough. Besides, have you guys seen all the new video games? The virtual worlds are just amazing. It's tough not to get sucked in and lose track of time. Ron, it sounds like the person you ran into is just a comple poo-hole to begin with. I bet you a silver dollar (which is worth way more than an actual $1 these days) that he's the same way in other aspects of life. We see these sorts of people every day. In your place, i'd be very hard pressed to not tell him to go and make sweet love to himself. It boggles my mind that he'd expect you to just sit there on your own time and fix his **** because he has no idea what he's doing (not surprisingly, with that attitude!).
Posted on: 1/10/2012 9:54 AM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: Frickin' messing with the forum again
[quote]ORIGINAL: abufletcher Here's a little test to see how the photos are displaying today. *** Yeah, it's WEIRD and it SUCKS! The photo starts to expand as with the java applet, then sort of jumps into a new window (which replaces the old forum window). This is awful. [/quote] what i really would like to know is, where can i get those tiny engines? They actually have throttle control! I still have a Cox .049 from like 20 years ago that i've only used for 2 tanks on a plastic F4U CU plane. I apologize for the highjack
Posted on: 12/15/2011 6:34 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "RC Scale Aircraft"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
yea, the little helis can be flown forever without replacing parts. My 4#3B has served as a wonderful learning platform and once you set it for higher throws, it's nuts. I told my friend to get mSR before he tries messing with his HBK3 and he's been having a smooth learning experience with it. Brian, i'm using the 401B "Cyro" and before i had the Telebee V2 on that heli. I think there's something about the airframe itself that creates interference. In other news, i just installed the $6 ESC on the HBK and it's ALSO getting hot [:o]. The motor is just warm, like before, and battery just barely. I guess my Turnigy ESC that i took off is still good then. I think whatever is making it draw so much current is what makes the battery runtime shorter. I frakking give up!!! Time to go play Deus Ex. When all else fails - video games to the rescue! Loving my new PC rig [:D] And if these helis give me a hard time tomorrow, i'm going to the shooting range... no, not to shoot up my helis, though i feel like i'd love to lol. Guns - also another stress free pass time, because they always work and i sometimes don't even clean mine!!
Posted on: 10/22/2011 7:33 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
Jeff, have you ever seen these guys around? jersey guido Brian, i was using INO Lab D202HB. it's a ball bearing, carbon geared 0.10s servo. Now i'm using Turnigy MG90s (metal gears). I ran out of daylight already, so hopefully i'll get a couple of flights in tomorrow and see how it goes. While i'm at it, gonna put a new ESC in for the HBK and hopefully resolve the ESC overheating issue with that heli.
Posted on: 10/22/2011 3:25 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
lol Brian, you win a prize! you get to be the first to put rocket motors on his heli! Yea, just like the Joisey Shore (someone needs to give those people from the show a heavy clubbing). So i just tried MG90S servo on my tail and i'm having the same servo overheating problem as with the INO Lab one, even when it's just sitting on my table. It seems that there's some sort of interference that makes the tail (and sometimes cyclic) servo(s) move back and forth in very small, but rapid motions. It goes away eventually, but then it comes back. I've had this issue throughout the life of the heli and thought it gone at one point, but alas, it's back. I wonder if the fiber glass or whatever frame is creating static. The servo, though 0.01 seconds slower still holds the tail OK at idle up. However, the tail slider is getting rather sloppy where the "fork" meets the tail shaft bushing, so i think i'll need a replacement.
Posted on: 10/22/2011 1:06 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
haha Myst, aaah yes, that was before the time when you could look up a walkthrough on the almighty internet! watching ingleburn's rocket video, i just had to ask: is anyone else thinking of putting rocket motors on the helis to make them faster? anyone?? [:D]
Posted on: 10/22/2011 11:10 AM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
ahamay - trust me, it always happens on the last battery/tank lol Buz - looking forward to results of OSD and long distance flying!
Posted on: 10/21/2011 7:46 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
Rob, to explain what Blooming Onion is - to put it simply, it is heaven on earth [:D]
Posted on: 10/19/2011 4:56 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
ingleburn - sorry about the bad news. You don't sound discouraged though, which is a good sign! Get used to hitting Throttle Hold switch, it saved me parts more than once, even on my big nitro bird. Joaquin - you're spot on, brother!
Posted on: 10/18/2011 8:32 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
aaaw man, i was so hoping that Aussies rode kangaroos! Though i'm most saddened by the lack of crocodile wrestling training for young children. You see, in mother Russia, we are taught how to wrestle bears from the tender age of 4. LOL the never-dying Dead Parrot sketch, can't beat a classic! I'll just have to assume that Simon and other EBOs are not big fans of taxidermy [:D] My other favorite is Knights of Ni. Now, i like eating at the Outback steakhouse, but i doubt anything on the menu is authentic Aussie preparation. Brian, looks like you have her dialed in, good job! It's funny how much adjustment, both mechanical and electronic it takes to get a heli flying properly vs an airplane. Well, the reason why you'd be ok flying something full scale, as opposed to backing up your truck is because there are no trees up high! Thanks for the shout-out, i actually pronounce my screen name as joizee-x (i just put an X there because joizee was taken, guess i should've added a "-"). My real name is Renat, though good luck remembering that lol.
Posted on: 10/18/2011 8:29 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
[quote]ORIGINAL: sgbfly Lol, not only that but I was disappointed by the lack of EBO and Aussie stereotypes in the viddy.... btw, that's looks like one huge open cast mine in your pic! Simon [/quote] I know right? That's why i'm dying to know what those stereotypes are. Anyone? I think i know a few British ones, but those strange people from down under... no idea!
Posted on: 10/18/2011 3:41 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
[quote]ORIGINAL: Rob2160 Ok, this reply is a little late, but I had to get wifey's permission to post this pic... The Grand Canyon... What that little thing... Pfft.. you should see the Superpit at Kalgoorlie... Anyway, here is a pic of Heliwife and I when she was only a 3 day old wife... standing on the rim of some tiny dent in the ground somewhere in the good ole US of A... (t was a 6 hour bus ride from Vegas, and 6 hours back... wifey wanted to do the Helicopter tour instead, but Geez, I have 3500 hours in real Police helicopters so I was MORE excited doing the Bus ride!. ) It was funny though.. for a 14 hour day of travel, we had 30 mins at the Grand Canyon.. [/quote] Aaah, tourists. The only thing our country still sells to the world are the local attractions. btw Rob, I take it that Australia isn't too keen on filling in potholes? Just look what happens after a few years! Gold mine my arse
Posted on: 10/18/2011 3:36 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
lower your gyro gain
Posted on: 10/17/2011 3:58 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
aaah yes, my Russian kin from HotForWords. I didn't realize her channel is this big now. since we have representatives from all over the world on this thread, here's one she does on stereotypes [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcAckpvWi_A&feature=autoplay&list=SL&lf=sh_e_top&playnext=2[/youtube] i really hope no one gets offended! [X(] which brings me to the question, what would be an Aussie stereotype? (besides that you're all basically criminals sent away to a distant land [:D])
Posted on: 10/17/2011 3:14 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
Brian, thanks! That's how things always happen to me. I plan something, but then this guy named Murphy knocks on my door, holding up some kinda statute paper, all framed nicely, and tells me i have to abide by it, or else. I hate that guy! I think this is the 3rd season that i have concluded with a crash. Go out with a bang, as they say. If i had to estimate the damage, it'd be $100 if i replace every single thing that was even remotely damaged, or $20, if i decide to mend and bend things back and use some epoxy. For now, the damn thing is sitting (albeit crookedly due to broken landing gear, which has never happened before) in its usual place and i don't even wanna look at it lol. I'll get to it when i'm bored. Wow, i seriously didn't realize they had gaming consoles dating that far back! i was still in diapers, that's amazing! I definitely try not to lose out on the daylight though, which is why earlier today i had that flying chainsaw attack the soybean field [:D] My usual routine is flying after work, then TV or games after sunset. Which actually doesn't leave much time for the other thing you mentioned - girls lol. Although, after my buddy dragged me to check out Delilah's in Philly last night (take a guess what that is; i'll give you a hint, it's ALSO a steakhouse apparently), i'm now feeling pressed to finish making my Match.com profile lol. Rob, that's an interesting compilation of articles you have on the site. I'm intrigued to find out a real pilot's point of view. It's also good to see that an actual pilot had input in the creation of something related to flight sims! I have played a couple of sims way back in college; ones that are fresh in memory are Falcon 4 and Comanche 3. Others were more arcade'ish, but still fun. I've heard many good things about Privateer from several people, back in the 90's and recently in a conversation with a good friend of mine who's a heavy gamer (i'm actually more of a moderate one). My vice is mostly role playing games and they take many hours to finish and are very immersive, especially ones with open roaming. Unlike my friend, however, i actually play them from start to finish, as opposed to jumping to something else and never getting back lol. well, enough of me babbling about things that are not helis lol
Posted on: 10/16/2011 9:14 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
[quote]ORIGINAL: Rob2160 Hi, yes as Simon says, the DS480 is an awesome tail servo if you can find one anywhere.. I am having good experience with the 3DPro 9257MG Servo which is a clone of the Futaba S9257 (it costs $19 from www.RC711.com) Simon is using one also, boom mounted. So far it has performed flawlessly in over 70 flights for me and is just as good as the original futaba IMHO... When I was in Sydney recently this store www.ultimatehobbies.com.au had a Phoenix Sim attached to a 42 inch LED TV and it looked Awesome. I thought of trying that also. Need to find some great PC games.. I played all the Wing Commander Series in the 90's and WC3 was just Incredible... More cut scenes from the game here. and some game play.. ( I played on a Pentium 100 and it was much more fluid than this video.) I used a Thrustmaster Joystick and progammable WCS2 and rudder just like this. , so every function in the spacecraft would be operated without touching a keyboard. It was SO addictive.. I had 5 days off work in a row after a Police night shift. and started playing the first day.. the next 3 days were 6am until 3am.. and I couldn't sleep, just thinking about the game.. I finished the game around 1pm on the 5th day.. (my girlfriend at the time would bring me breakfast lunch and dinner at the computer.. honestly... she thought it was funny how obsessed and excited I was by the game) I remember it being SO immersive that when I finished it and walked outside the house into the sunshine after 5 days on not leaving the house, I actually FELT like I had been on an incredible space adventure... AWESOME AWESOME game. [/quote] thanks for the link Rob. Seems like that servo is in pretty high demand if it's on backorder. i guess that speaks for the servo's performance! Man, that's pretty wild stuff about playing that game for several days. My friend once played Morrowind for practically an entire weekend, taking breaks only to eat/shower/sleep. Back in my college days i used to be pretty bad about that too, but these days, it's usually no more than 3 hours at a time, 6 if i play more than 1 game in a day and that rarely happens. I only played Wing Commander Prophecy and had lots of fun with it, though i didn't have a HOTAS and just a regular 4-button+throttle-wheel joystick. Actually, i still have it laying around somewhere lol. So today i wanted to fly the last 2 tanks worth of fuel remaining for my nitro and then clean it off, put after-run oil in and let it retire for the season... Of course as my luck had it, i crashed it on the first flight because once again i decided to loop too low to the ground and didn't add any negative collective at the top (though a voice in my head told me to) as it was obvious that i'd run out of room. So coming out of the loop, the heli just ran out of power and bogged as i struggled to maintain altitude by giving it full up collective. I never learn! lol Brian thanks for the good words, glad to "see" you guys too! Now, here's something for all the Aussies to feel proud (NASCAR fans need not take offense, it's all in good humor): http://jalopnik.com/5848213/watch-a-nascar-legend-freak-out-in-an-australian-supercar
Posted on: 10/16/2011 2:51 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
wow it's been a while since i read this thread! Hi everyone, again!! I see that there are new posters and even a Heli Wife (with some hilarious heliboys smileys pictures)! aaaand... someone managed to almost lose a finger [X(] Geez, i missed all the excitement! I myself had 2 close calls with my .50 nitro when i was first starting out; both times it flew overhead within a couple meters. Rob, them blade labels... too soon, man, too soon!! The reason i haven't been around is because usually after flying or in the evening or on rainy days i just sit on the couch and play PC games on my 50" TV (recently had to upgrade the PC to handle the latest games). That and with the crappy Fall weather and shorter days i haven't been flying a whole lot [:o] My Dragonus has been sitting around, partially due to the above and partially because the tail twitches too much under cross wind and in the last few flights the tail servo gets REALLY warm even if there's not a lot of visible twitching. I'm going to try an HXT900 or Turnigy MG90S to see if the overheating is a servo issue and then will need to replace it. Any suggestions for a micro size tail servo that goes for $15 or so? I believe the Turnigy DSG something is used by many of you? I'm also very disappointed with the runtime of these 4 Zippy Fightmax 2200 30C batteries i got for the heli. The "oomf" portion of the flight doesn't last as long as the Turnigy ones did. I think they're broken in after 4 cycles. What would you guys say? The HBK2 also been having issues with overheating, but of the ESC, so i'm gonna replace it with this cheapy one i got from HK, but i'm also not impressed with the Turnigy Nanotech 1800 batts i got for it (though it may be because the worn out ESC drains too much current and too quickly). So all these additional issues contributed to me staying grounded. Though i did use my free time with good progress: beat Mass Effect 1 and 2 over the summer and now playing Witcher 2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Dirt 3 all at once lol. Waiting for Skyrim to come out. I did buy a new bright yellow fiberglass canopy for my nitro for those cloudy days and early sunsets to increase visibility and have been flying that heli here and there, weather permitting. What a reliable machine! Though i do get an occasional tear in the fuel line at the main tank and the heli gets covered in slime. I don't think i can possibly catch up on all the dozens of pages i've missed, so i hope everyone has been doing well?
Posted on: 10/14/2011 1:45 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
[quote]ORIGINAL: rikybob Hiya Rob! THAT was ever so slightly HORRIFYING!!! These things DO cast a huge "wake". This is probably the wrong term but when I was a kid I learned about [link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingtip_vortices]"wing tip vortices"[/link] and I understand quite clearly that the descending wake turbulence occurs as I run into my own wake constantly in my front yard but NOT to that degree! I haven't ran into that with my big 'un but I feel confident it can produce that type of event as we are tossing around a LOT of air with these 500's! b PS What was eeerie too was that a child screamed at the same time! [/quote] That was no child screaming, that was Rob
Posted on: 7/25/2011 11:13 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HobbyKing and Turbines
[quote]ORIGINAL: vaca69 Yes, the chinese have sent a man into space, but how much will cost for them to build a turbine that really runs, and cheap for sale? A turbine is not a glow engine, or a brushless motor, it's a masterpiece of engineering. [/quote] while turbines are certainly amazing, they're not magical and unattainable. at one point in history, brushless motors and glow engines too were masterpieces of engineering.
Posted on: 7/21/2011 12:55 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "RC Jets"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
[quote]ORIGINAL: SW_RC Commiserations to those for whom helis have turned on them... Maybe time to turn your attention to a more gentile pastime, like this fellow has? [youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeNLMN_RqSI [/youtube] [:D] [/quote] holy monkey balls! i thought i was watching one of the Mad Max movies for a moment! Bryan, that slide show made me wanna cry. RC models are a terrible thing to waste. Thanks to everyone for recommending the Cyro, i'm very happy with it. Flew some more today and it's very solid, though i may have to turn the gain a click or 2 lower for when i get my new Zippy 30C batteries and run in idle up. I had to bring the ball to the closest hole on the horn during the initial setup over the weekend. In hindsight, i should've done that with the Telebee, but even comparing performance of both gyros back to back on the same hole, the Cyro was better. I think that perhaps the Telebee would've been better when matched with a different servo. Rob, i'm running one of these digitals on the tail: http://www.picstuff.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=76 Right after you mentioned about the delay and analog servos, i remembered reading about that when i setup the Futaba GY401 on my nitro with the 9254 digital servo, and then it all made sense to me. I have gyro gain at 25 in the HH mode. I'm not sure what Spektrum equivalent that is. In Futaba's gyro menu you can select "GY" mode, which sets up all gyros as if they were native Futaba ones. From there you have 200 points of adjustment: A1-A100 for HH and N1-N100 for rate mode. So in HH mode i have it at A25 and in rate mode i have it at N49. Rate mode hold is also very solid btw. As it turned out, the voltage regulator i ran on the tail servo before, had white wire break from the lil circuit board, hence me getting no tail servo movement. Nothing i can't fix, but since my Scorpion 45A ESC (built-in 6V linear BEC) was replaced under warranty for a newer version (built-in 5V switching BEC), i no longer need the voltage dropped. Brian, the nitro made it out just fine, thanks. It's easy to tell motor trouble with them because it'll either sound completely different or... just stop lol. In my case, it sounded lean, so i brought it back, though i flew it a couple mins longer and now regret it, as it was leaning out. Funny thing though, on the first flight, i ran the last bits of 30% nitro and after 2 mins it also sounded lean, so i brought it back, shut it down and couldn't restart. Turned out that all that insane combustion chamber pressure of 30% fuel running at peak setting has BACKED OUT THE HEAD BOLTS! they weren't falling out just yet, but they were too loose to seal the chamber. The previous time i was at the field and accidentally ran it too lean, the pressure was backing out the glow plug! At least i know that after all that, i still have really nice compression on the engine still lol.
Posted on: 7/20/2011 9:36 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
wow, i turn away from the thread for a few days and you guys get yourselves in a pickle? I hope the string of bad luck will not cause any more grief for you guys! Edmund, that's some nice arsenal you have and something i didn't know about those big cats. Interesting info there, thanks! I finally had some time to catch up on the thread after a busy weekend. Went to the bay at the shore on Friday and did some kayaking and relearned windsurfing. I learned a little bit of the latter some 4 years ago and my body forgot most of it, so it took half hour to finally get the feel for it again, but the sun was going down by then. Was good to be by the sea though, as i haven't gone to the beach to splash around in a good long while (been to Atlantic City, but fully clothed and at night). Saturday i finally flew the nitro again, after buying 2 gallons of 20% fuel and had a blast, though on the 4th flight the rubber isolators that support the tank sheared off and the tank was touching the frame, which in nitro heli world is not a good thing. Also the fuel line attached to the main tank developed a big crack and lots of fuel was lost in flight, not to mention the engine ran lean. So from all this business i had to bring the heli back in and call it a day. I also got my very own Cyro and installed it on the Dragonus (as it turned out, the existing Telebee gyro wasn't damaged, but the 6->5V voltage converter that i ran on my tail servo, was). Well, so far it seems that the Cyro is being more consistent in holding the tail than the Telebee. I haven't done the hot glue fill, as it seemed to me that everything inside is very solid and the bottom lid has a foam pad inside that holds everything in place. I'm still getting a little bit of bounce when flying in the wind, which i tried to cure by adding some Delay, though i don't think it helped. Has anyone used that feature to tune the gyro response? The batteries i'm using on the heli are all but dead by now, from me overdischarging them a few times, so it was hard to judge gyro performance with slower headspeed. I ordered 4x Zippy 2200 30C packs from USA HK, so i'll see how that works out. Overall i'm very impressed with the Cyro for a mere $11! aaaand, i have my own electronics trouble, as some of you guys are! My HBK decided to start doing random things while in flight with respect to servo movement and throttle. When sitting on the ground and not spinning the rotor, everything's fine. When i get it going, some seconds later it decides to dance with itself. Gonna have to sort it out soon, because i just got 2 brand new 1800 nano-tech batteries for the heli (i over discharged the ones i had for it as well... can we see a pattern here? lol).
Posted on: 7/19/2011 8:44 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
Bryan, good to hear that you still have a home to sleep in!
Posted on: 7/19/2011 8:37 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
oh yea, i remember seeing vids of Justin Jee when he was like 4yrs old. he was tossing a big nitro bird around like nothing. i wonder if he works on the helis at all, or if all the setup is done for him. Edmund, what do you hunt with and what do you do in case of lions?
Posted on: 7/13/2011 8:02 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
Bryan, that makes sense. some days i'm tempted to just get an on-board cam so i can monitor various parts of the helis in flight whenever i feel that something's off. i think it can serve as a great diagnostics tool. Friz, i once had to search for 20 mins, plus 30 mins the next day to find both main blades+grips because one of the bolts holding a blade grip on the feathering shaft got loose. funny thing was, that bolt was still inside the blade grip because the blade itself made it difficult for it to pop out of the openings. i got lucky with finding everything, but let me tell ya, some days i just wanna stomp on these things (i kicked and flung the Dragonus around just recently).
Posted on: 7/9/2011 11:46 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
Rob, nice inverted stuff, pretty soon you can mow the lawn that way. BTW, people use that Stryker to do dogfighting, it's pretty neat. There's a bunch of stuff on Youtube. Bryan (pushingold), there's an intermittent sound that goes along with the rotor spinning. Almost like the gear is not perfectly circular and grinds slightly against the pinion on every rotation. Do you know where that sound is generated?
Posted on: 7/9/2011 2:56 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
9. To wash off the soil from all those 'dirt naps'
Posted on: 7/7/2011 3:05 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
Rob, you got me, i'm going for the infamous Cyro! Now, i just have to keep my will strong and not "accidentally" add some foamie or ARF balsa plane to my shopping cart [X(] oh, what horror that would be! btw, that internet speed is BLAZING!! i bet you can stream HD movies now!
Posted on: 6/29/2011 6:19 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
SW_RC, that's it, you've convinced me, i'm moving down under [:D] Glad to hear that you're doing well. I had crappy jobs after college for a while (graduated right after 9/11), until 7 years ago. Peter, that Mini S must've been a hell of a ride! that's too bad that someone else couldn't handle it all [:o] catflyer, i guess we can all agree that you look like a bada$$ [8D] Well i dunno any better, but i'd imagine that flying for a living must be pretty darn cool! I'll let the other RW pilots correct me on that. Enjoy your stay at the lake and your new (to you) boat. Buz, how many of these things do you have? lol and here some of my friends say: "why do you need to have 2 of the same car??". Well, technically your accident did happen on a ROAD, it's just that the road was circular [;)] I decided to take the entire next week off (we also get 4th of July off), or at least as long as it doesn't rain much, so that i could get some RC flying/driving/sailing and maybe some RW kayaking/cycling. i'm about to place an order for blades, batteries, Turnigy MG90s and HXT900 servos and gears (half of these are for a coworker with HBK3) and i'm still not sure which gyro: HK401B, GA250 or Turnigy 302 to replace my busted one on the Dragonus. it's driving me nuts lol. Simon, how's that GY-520 clone holding up?
Posted on: 6/28/2011 9:44 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
catflyer, no disrespect meant! I only thought you'd be into the riding lifestyle as a hobby and not into bike gangs or anything like that. I've seen all kinds of bikers in the flesh, when i was in my teens and before my family could afford cable and Discovery Channel shows, so it makes the mind group similar looks together [:D] You have awesome jobs though and their nature definitely cannot be inferred from your appearance. it's a bit difficult for people to profile me, because my looks don't reveal that i'm from Russia (though my accent slips out sometimes). I doubt anyone here would be able to guess what i do for a living either (and if someone just thought "Russian spy", that's not even close [:)]). Buz, that's a sweet car, though my favorite is the 993 chassis with its excessively protruding rear fender flares. I've contemplated about buying a used 911 twice in my life, but both times i bought a new Evo instead. I just figured it'll be cheaper on the maintenance and other things since i don't make "Porsche money" just yet lol. That's not to say my cars are cheap on insurance, gas and maintenance either [:o] The ZR1 is rated as a low 11's car, isn't it? Though i know zeh Germans usually underrate their high end cars anyway, so i don't doubt that you could take them, especially as the better driver behind the wheel. The one thing i've always read is that you can launch the crap out of Porches and the drive train just takes it. I'm glad you were able to replace that beast though. So your insurance company didn't drop you knowing it happened on a track? You lucky son of a gun! Are you talking about stock Evo/Sti? They've got to have at least basic stuff done before they can chase you in a 1/4. They'd have a better chance of staying on your tail in a twisty track though - sooo much grip in the corners.
Posted on: 6/27/2011 5:36 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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RE: HK-450GT CCPM Alloy T-Rex compatible
oh my, look what i have started! lol pushin - that VTX1300 is a sweet ride. even though i prefer my cars to be quick-handling rally machines from Japan, i'm not into sport bikes. i like cruisers/choppers/bobbers. i'm 5'6" and 137lbs, so anything that's at least 250cc is plenty for me. catflyer - after seeing what you look like, i knew you had to have something to do with bikes! for the past year i've been thinking of getting a Honda Shadow 750, but i'm just still not sold on having any bike for that matter. too many bad stories have passed through my ears. plus, considering how i like to drive my cars in the corners, i'd probably do something stupid and die on a bike. even if that didn't happen... like i said, too many stories about inattentive drivers taking riders out [:o] but i'll tell you, it was definitely a nice feeling, though i've only went as fast as i would go on a bicycle (top speed), for my first time lol. Buz - are you in a 911T, GT3? modded? i know in my AWD Evos i can take bikes off the line if i launch aggressively, but after 60mph i can lose to a 12 second cruiser (like the Shadow 750). my cars run 13.5 stock in the 1/4, plus they weren't designed for Autobahn, but mountain roads. friz - glad to hear that you're getting the hang of it.
Posted on: 6/26/2011 7:49 PM by Author "joizeex" in the forum "T-Rex heli"
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