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@Renton 226160 wrote:

My mate has a Venom Night Ranger 3D XL he could sell you.

Its a truly sexy piece of work.

If you, or anyone reading this, are interested drop me a PM.

what’s he askin’?

if you love those vids then do a search on youtube for “szabo” (there’s 3 of them! dad and 2 sons) and “curtis youngblood”. that should be enough to get you hooked!:D :8ball:

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so far i just have the hard justice mod for bf2, definately makes singleplayer worth playing. :8ball:

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how’s those battle picooz clones on toyeast!:huh: :8ball:

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i started working 6 days a week and i just bought battlefield 2. i’ll probably never see people again!:D :8ball:

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all hobby grade tx’s and rx’s are compatible provided they are the same frequency and modulation.

eg, in australia for land rc’s we have 27mhz or 40mhz.
and they can be either am or fm.

so let’s say you settle on a 40mhz fm tx. you will need a 40mhz fm rx.
a 40mhz am rx will not work.

you can get radios with removable modules so you can swap between am or fm and even go with the 2.4ghz craze!

eg, i have a futaba 3pk. i have a 27mhz am module so i can run my mini z, modified zipzap, 1:10 rally.
i also have a 27mhz fm module that i use to control my 1:10 monster truck.
and i can buy a 2.4ghz module that fits too.

best of both worlds. :8ball:

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spin up, left rudder, right cyclic, lift off, tail in, tail left, tail in, tail right, tail in, tail left, tail in, tail right, piroette, kickflip/mctwist, “inverted landing”.:D :8ball:

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john 😉 :8ball:

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that’s all good info.

once you get normal charging sorted then you can learn about tuning your cells.

eg: say you wanted your 3300’s to have lots of punch (voltage) for a race.
then you want to charge and discharge your cells hard. discharge at 35A and charge at 6A.

want runtime? charge and discharge gently, charge at 3A, discharge at 5 – 10A :8ball:

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well what you lack in words you make up in pics!! 😀

great job! :8ball:

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yeah, i usually work public holidays too.

so when are holidays on? :8ball:

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i still say look for chassis tweak. i know that chassis has no hplate but that’s the area of the chassis where tweak is likely to occur. :8ball:

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there’s a newly completed concrete track just opened in my back yard!

it gets the betty.k and ph2t seal of aproval :topstuff:

only problem is i work when everyone else is free, weekends.

but one of my neighbours is a miserable turd, i wouldn’t mind pissing him off with a mini z party some time….:evil: :8ball:

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well good luck with that!:smiley14:

moved myself recently after nearly 5 years in one place, next time i’m just gonna sell everything and book into a retirement village!:D :8ball:

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another thing to check is that all 4 wheels contact the ground evenly. there may be a slight twist in the h plate area making one rear wheel press harder on the ground than the others. this one will grab more during braking and acceleration causing the spinouts. :8ball:

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@Dangerous Dave 225823 wrote:

chop chop chop ….. 😉

yeah, that’s the sound my wallet makes lately with all the crashing i’m doing!:D :8ball:

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i’m just busy learning to fly my chopper, it’s a big commitment! 😀 :8ball:

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it’s not easily possible that i know of. you’d have to get a micro rx and servo to do it properly. :8ball:

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some of my 1:28 paintjobs are here:
http://www.ausmicro.com/forum/vbpicgallery.php?do=view&g=3

definately fork out for a quality masking tape, i bought a roll of the fancy yellow tamiya stuff and never had any bleed using it. :8ball:

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i think it looks great! nice colours and scheme;)

i once did a flame job on an nsx body, i believe you when you say it was a bitch to mask!:D :8ball:

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check out the new tomy q steer’s, same size as digi q’s (smaller than a bit char g) :8ball:

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@kevsta 225676 wrote:

I’m always on the hunt for ant trails in the backyard to do burnouts on with my mini-z and micro-t… pretty sad, but it gets that way some times.

i used to do the same with my offroad bits!:D :8ball:

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it would win:D :8ball:

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i have more fun with insects, when i’d bring my 1:10’s back from a run there would be a few bugs buzzing around the chassis. more often than not they would land on the motor or esc and fry!:D

now that i’m focusing on the heli i’m killing bugs in a whole new way! sometimes you’ll see a fly venture too close to the top of the rotor blades then disappear in an instant!
i often find legs and wings stuck to the blades and also the odd streak of moth dust!:smiley16: :8ball:

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your friend is very wise!:D

while it’s possible to jump straight into a real heli and succeed it’s a lot less harder if you cut your teeth with a 4ch counter rotating/coaxial heli first.

here’s where i started:
http://www.ausmicro.com/forum/showthread.php?t=14121

but a real collective pitch heli is still hard to learn, the first 5 – 10 pack will be a total disappointment! (were for me!);) :8ball:

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i gave it a lick of red to help with visibility and make it my own.

also got some new blades. i bought a set of wooden flat bottoms but they made the heli a little too unpredictable, using the cyclic would make it jump up for some reason. then i did some accidental gardening with them and they’ll need a spot of glue before i use them again!

i also got some symetrical plastic blades. they’re nearly twice the weight of wooden paddles but seem to be more beginner friendly so i’m using them for now.

and i made a blade balancer by hacking the sides off a plastic chocolate box.

definately a must have tool!

so now i’d like to share my learning journey.

rc heli’s are pretty much like a 2-3yo child. they need constant supervision and direction. you turn your back for one second, even blink at the wrong time and bam! instant ****ing disaster!

once i installed training gear i could begin proper practice. winding it up then shutting it down at first to learn the throttle feel and practice killing it quickly in the event of a crash.
i then moved on to getting it light on the skids and trying to keep it straight and in one place.
bit by bit i’d get it lighter and try a few hops as my confidence grew.

up until then it was a very frustrating experience but that’s part of the deal. you can’t tell if it’s trimmed right until you get it in the air and you can’t get it in the air easily unless it’s trimmed right!

but you get through that and once you start to understand the in flight behavior it gets a lot easier.

so far i’ve clocked up about 2 hours and i can do a pretty decent hover for as long as i want in my little 15ft x 15ft backyard training area. i’ve even managed a couple of decent right hand piroettes, going left is a different story all together!

see that’s the thing with a heli, you need to give it input every step of the way. say you wanna sway left, you need to give it left input to tilt the heli left. it then moves left and you need to give it right input to arrest the left movement. then you gotta tilt it back to the left to stop it swaying back to the right!

but i’m totally loving it, no turning back now!:D :8ball:

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