Rich

Fantastic pic's, when do we get to see the utube vid?

Oh niceeeeee, Rog, that expression on your face, backdraft from the spit prop????

I'd have popped round just to see that spit flying again if I'd known...

Does this mean all my gypsy friends have to leave the field now, and take their caravans with them?

Yeaaaaaaa, he's comin home, he's comin home, jimbo's comin homeeee

Have a safe journey Jim, see ya soon...

Bloomin eck Jim, sounds like your in for some serious mayhem out there? Raining chaos??

Even I managed to have a little fun non-fly all on my own taxi-ing around the runway at almost full pelt after you lot buggered off and left me... Am determined that tomorrow, I'm switching off all phones/email, everything, will get there much earlier.

On the plus side, I did manage to get a few toys out and get my trainer wayd at 2kg, tested its Watts and got 420w at WOT and 9700RPM at WOT, which isnt bad for this little setup.

Hope your having fun over there Jim, dont stay too long.

right chaps, one thing I have a horrible sinking feeling about is how I put the wiring together....

As you can see from the wiring channel in each side of the wing, there are a mass of wires making there way from edge to centre, getting bigger and bigger the closer it gets to the middle:

Well, after 4 months of endless reading, asking all you guys and asking many more, it was decided to fit the 30A ESC's right in behind the brushless motors (2 x JP480's) which should also keep them nice and cold

Also, expanding on what Darren did with his, I totally turned the motor mounts round backwards, fitted the motor mount plate on the wrong side deliberately and pushed the 4mm spinning bar thingy out through the other side of the motor so that the wires for it woudnt run under the moving part of the outrunner, and allowing me to bolt the motor into place further back into the motor mount on the wing leaving only enough of the spinning bar/rod poking out for the prop to fit with 5mm clearance.

Should look great with this pair of counter rotating props on it, and I even managed to wire up and correctly colour code the ESC=>motor cables so they both spin the right way, on my first attempt which was lucky.

My only concern now is, with all that wiring going down the middle of the wing, which is all glued together, and glued in place, I have the Aileron servo cables glued into the top half, along with the lighting wires, and on the bottom half are the ESC power cables, ESC servo cables, and a few more lighting cables, all glued together with Zacki

I did realise however that it would be a good idea to actually test it all and make sure the motors work before going any further, although I should have done that months ago before fitting anything at all, but I didnt have a clue then, so better late than never, and luckily, everything fired up brilliantly, motors and ESC's all work as they should (Thanks for that wiring diag Darren, it made sense after a lot more reading up)

(The post it notes are just so I dont forget which motor is going in what direction)

Hi Guys

Thought I might as well post up my build of my Twinstar II here, give you some bedtime reading if your really bored, and give me a little place for you lot to tell me if/what I'm doping wrong instead of whacking posts all over the shop....

So, I bought a Twinstar II back in November, and now 4 months later, its "almost" looking lie a plane, but, I'll show you all some pretty pictures anyway of the story so far, just in case anybody is interested.

The pretty box:

Well, the packaging it comes in is not brilliant, everything sits loose in the box, no bubble wrap or cardboard to keep it all from flapping around, although the amount of stuff in the box anyway, it doesnt flap about too much, but nothing is really protected from the box taking a prod from anything pointy...

So, on with the build, and 4 months later, I've managed to install FAA lights into the wing:

The wing is currently upside down, and also has flashing strobes on the trailing edges which unless timing is perfect, cant be photographed and all the wiring for the lights have been buried into channels cut into the foam, glued in place with zacki, then filled over with lightweight model filler (Still yet to finsih the filling but its soo boring filling those little gaps... but it does look better.

The slow red flashing lights are to the outside of each motor with the landing lights on the inside, in total, 8 lights in the wing, and I've just got to bury the light circuit board into the wing recess just in front of where the wing bolt goes, as all wires were extended to reach on this wing as this lighting kit from robot birds, the wires were not long enough to reach the ends of the wing tips

Looks great so far, for 4 months of pratting about with it, and now the 2 wing halves have also been glued together with white model silicone and the GRP spar is also glued into place, but I prefered using model silicone purely to allow a little flex in the wing as I didnt want it to be totally rigid as I think that might fracture something should it ever see a loopy loop

Hey Leon, hows things?

When you say "Throw the prop", do you actually mean throw it as in, launch it into mid-air, detached from the engine?

Well the prop carrys the momentum of the crank what normally and what happens (in slow motion) is the the engine pre detonates causing the engine reverses, this in turns loosens the prop nut, now depending how much thread is on the crank and how quickly it undo's will either mean a loose prop spinning on the crank or the prop detaching from the crank and airframe.

Thanks Peter

Is it dangerous or would it do any damage if it suddenly started running in reverse?

Hey Guys

While running in my new engine today, after everybody buggered off and left me, I had a really weird thing happen.

My little engine spluttered a bit, as if it was going to cut out, then it came back to life again....

The weird part is, the propellor was going the wrong way round and it sounded a little different, but I didnt twig what was going on until the plane started moving backwards, and then the exhaust smoke started going towards the propellor!!

I didnt actually realise it was possible for this to happen at all, surely these little model engines only go 1 way round?

How the hell does this happen?

Has anybody had this happen mid-flight?

Having seen Jims spitfire up close the other day, I have to say, I'm really looking forward to seeing it fly, it looks awsome already. If you want help weathering it jim, your welcome to tie it to the back of my car when I'm on call-outs I'll drag it around Surrey for a few days to weather it up real nice for you

Seriously though, if you ever need a spare pair of hands, lemme know, I'd love to learn something new

That sounds like a plan....

Will have to see it though, not sure what one of those valves looks like in the flesh... You are referring the the one gerard was mentioning?

haaa, bummer...

Its not so much a filter I wanted, just a way to connect flightbox to plane, securely, without all the mess....

I dont actually want anything between the tank and the engine at all.... Like you say, keep it simple..

Hi Jim

Thanks mate, I'll do my best to get over there, but it will be later in the day as I still havent fixed my plane yet...

Awaiting undercarraige still, and need to figure how to attach tailwheel so that the rubber can steer it as the elavator horn (wow, gettin the lingo) is in the way...

So if I do get over there, it might not be until around 2pm+

ahh, no, I was looking for a tidy wat physically connect the flightbox to the plane, kind of like in the formula 1 way almost, but small scale...

Refuelling, without spillages and getting it all over my hands

Hi Peter

Do you mean something like this:

http://www.sussex-model-centre.co.uk/sh ... sp?id=5180

I think those still need the fuel tube from your flight box connected/disconnected to/from it yaa?

Thanks Jim, I wasnt too sure about the size, it did sound like a seriously tight fit...

Hey guys....

I lost the bung on my fuel line from the refuelling tube to the tank on the plane, so while searching for a new one, I found this...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 2759.l1259

(If reading this after auction closes, its a 6mm fuel line coupler)

Question is, would a nitro fuel line fit on it, and would it work?

This way I can refuel safely, spill nothing, and not get my hands covered in fuel at every refill....

Nice, so its just a case of buy it, slap in an engine/motor and a RX, and your good to go?

That really is a sweet plane. Wouldnt mind one myself, even just to look at and taxi it round the garden/air field until I was brave enough to fly it

Who is "Our" when you say "our price" ??? Is that the price the club members can get it for?