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Might be a capacitor, might also be an RF inductor of sorts… (after that, that’s when I fell asleep in physics class, sorry :))

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Any plane small as a matchbox/BCG would be hell to fly, due to instablity, crosswinds etc etc.

Me more thinking about making a self-contained powerpod for a large PaperPlane… 🙂

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I believe airtix to S’pore is very cheap lately… can probably
rock past HK and pick up a few goodies too on the way there too. 🙂

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Mini-z Endurance Race
J Cube 5 hours Endurance Race!
Date: 1 June
Time: 12pm to 5pm
Venue: 247 Tanjong Katong Road Singapore 437035
Entry fee: $50/=

Rules and regulations

1 Kyosho Mini-z allowed only
2 transmitters allowed
3 person per team
4 AAA cells only
5 hours race
Unlimited pit stop
Rubber tires allowed
Kyosho and GPM motors only
AM 27Mhz crystal will be privided for each team.
All drivers must stand on the platform during the race.

In all disputes, the race director’s decision is final.
Any queries may direct to any race committees.

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….there’s less wear and tear on individual cars and people can work within set preferences.

Yes and no…. seriously if there are racers serious enough to contemplate racing any “enduro”, they would have all chipped in to buy a new chassis just for that race. Thus wear & pre-existing damage would not be an issue.

The other big drama is… who’s Marshalling???! :shock::shock:

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Postie didn’t bring anything today. blackeye:

Mine arrived Tues 27th; then couldn’t logon to announce!

Silver stars eh? Cute touch.

Sooo…. who’s up for the “Wierdest Place to have an Ausmicro T-shirt” competition??? 👿

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And to celebrate I have to goto work, damn! There should be a law in this country where you get the day off work on your birthday.

Me thoughts exactly… so this year (in March), I made it a point to add that 1 day to the Annual Leave register. No way I was gonna be sitting here in this stiiinnnking joint… 😀

Older but wiser.

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“design” as in “I have plans for”… haha, maybe this usage on English is a bit antiquated, perchance?

I was sitting here thinking there’s probably 101 things I’d like to get RC’d… common items a PC mouse, for example. How cool would that be?

Or how about RCing a RC transmitter… yeah, make that the vehicle, give it some small wheels etc!!

When that’s all done… a mini RC plane or similar microlight aircraft might be cute.

Just need some cheap and easily available source of the electronics/mechanics. 🙂

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Supposedly one of the 360s was the doing of Britney Spears, when she hired one for the day.

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You guys missed ONE BIG OMISSION there… the “clones” are all copies of the PalmRunner, not a MiniZ.

The PalmRunner is not fully-proportional, it operates like a BCG/tincan. Full lock L/R or nothing, full power fwd/reverse or nothing.

If anybody finds any cheapo clones that are fully-proportional – lemme know quick. I have design on their electronics… :blush:

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Last time I had a look at 1, the chassis looks pretty much the same as a normal BCG from underneath… but no, I didn’t try pulling anything off. 🙂

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Uh, oh, OK…

“Red” satchels aren’t the expressPost ones, which are “Gold”… d’oh!

Postie didn’t bring anything today. blackeye:

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thats a bad idea as I doubt anyone would complete the race.

Too right… I think if there’s any limitations, it should be “you can have as many spares as you like in your pit, but you cannot have a completely assembled whole spare car”. If you break your car then you’ll have to bring it in, disassemble it, replace all the broken bits and then only it goes out again. No whole car switcheroos… :p

ps: 24 hr race X 1/28th scale… = 52 mins. :D:D

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Interchanged with what?

Each other – probably yes.
To a sedan body – probably no.

They come fully-built and have those bigger fatter wheels.

And I think production has stopped on them too, so they’re getting rarer as retail stocks run out.

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the front wheels on that ute are huge, or is it just the photo?

Is just the foto, front wheels are same as rears. The wheels should be 2.2″ diameter. Those are the kit’s wheels anyway too.

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I’ve been checking that site for quite a while now… :smiley2:

The 3-day-old 360 is nothing (its only a entry-level dancing donkey anyway).

What about the green Murcielago… crashed even before it was launched.

Or the 350Zed, which appeared on the site within a week of its release in the US.

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Is a Grasshopper II worth anything???:D:D

Up to A$50 if you find the right sukka… :p:D:p

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Ahh, but the germans didn’t really care much about public liability back then & magnesium was nice and lightweight (pre Titanium!)… witness the 1955 LeMans. :smiley2:

The rest of the fun pix are here:
http://members.aol.com/healeypics/lemans.html

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Hydrogen burns invisible (i think), when the hindenberg went up, there were bright orange flames….becos the covering had an additive in it that was also used in rocket fuel.:p

I believe it was some nitrocellulose compound, similar stuff to the epoxy dope you use when fibreglassing. I think the airship’s covering was either silk or paper, probably silk.

Most alcohols burn with an invisible flame too… especially methanol – prime ingredient of gas car fuel. The idiots who smoke while playing gas RC… haha they’ll never get to see what burns them.

Powdered paper or powdered graphite/carbon also burns amazingly well.

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They look like SMDs by their size…

C’mon uA, you gotta go one better… how about one
that “glows” between nothing and fullbright…
like an iMac LED? 🙂

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Here is da bossman with his shirt.

Sexy…. back! :D:D:D

Now we all know what he looks like!!! :smiley2::smiley2:

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Well that proves it then doesn’t it!!! I’m at the wrong uni. I’ve actually know that for a while now ;o) UTS is a concrete square with no windows on the eng. depart. no kewl chill out areas and definately no kewl cars like you have just meantioned grrrr!!

Here in Vic, Melb Uni is right smack in the city so land is at a premium. Supposedly Monash who’s further out in the stix is better for some engineering studies, as their facilities are even better.

I didn’t hang around Melb too long… but:

Scariest tutorial/lecture?
We were all sitting in a lab, with naked wires everywhere that were live with 445V 3-phase power all around. Everybody was too scared to move much…!! 😯

Coolest demo?
There’s this big huge transformer (ok, its not that big, size of laser printer?). This does (I think) 600,000V… so we plugged it in. Then it hums… then it goes ‘brrrrr’ shivering… then this dark blue corona appears, gradually turning to brighter blue. :smiley16:

All this and its not even passing any current yet – I didn’t say we *connected* it to anything but 240V mains!!! 😀

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hmmm yes the hindenburg. . . shame not everyone realises it was the paint that caught fire first and that hydrogen is a much safer gas than most already in use hydrocarbon fuels.
…hydrogen not responseable for disaster ;o)

Well, saying that is like saying if you try light a match inside a tank half-full of petrol… it won’t burn either.

Its the air, yup, blame the oxygen. :smiley2:

Actually me thinks the Hindenburg wasn’t an explosion, it was more of an “Implosion”. Because the oxidising hydrogen will cause enough vacuum to pull more air into the cavity… like the “squeee-pop!” when you light a testtube full of H2.

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Haha… yeah, that site is Darryn’s from Canberra.
Darryn is one of the more famous vintage Tamiya collectors in Australia.

#1 picture is that of a Frog buggy (Tamiya 5840)… came out in Dec/83, long discontinued. Quite a lot of ppl had them as their first RC cars, so there’s a big nostalgic following for them today – personally I think they’re dog ugly. If you can find one today even a used one is worth quite a bit of $$$, let alone if you have one in Mint condition.

#2 picture is the Lancia 037 Rally (Tamiya 5839) from Nov/83. This is probably a rarer model than the Frog as it was less popular when new, so again its worth big bucks now. The chassis & drivetrain underneath is very similar to the Frog.

#3 kit picture shows a “similar” Lancia 037 too… however this is the recent Tamiya rerelease #58278. This one came out in ~2001 and underneath is their TA03RS 4WD touring car chassis.

#4 blue ute is the Stadium Thunder #58181. Not sure if this has been discontinued but I think some hobby shops in Oz still have stocks. Its a nice handling 2WD stadium truck.

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i was painting my clear celica with the spray kind of stuff, and i screwed up, what do i use to remove the paint. Do you think nail polish remover would work. Cause i saw my sis’s bottle in my bathroom. Or is there some special stuff???

It all depends on what kind of paint you’ve used.
You can try borrow a dab of the NPR, most don’t contain much
“acetone” these days and should be ok for the plastics.

However pure acetone will dissolve your plastics!!

If you seriously know what you’re doing, the 1 good paint remover
is ovencleaner “EasyOff”. Warning this is caustic stuff and will
cause bad burns to skin & lungs (don’t ask). But I have stripped
BCG shells with it succesfully, just be careful and use it in a
ventilated space. Spray it on and leave overnight, scrub it a
little the next morning and maybe repeat.

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i was painting my clear celica with the spray kind of stuff, and i screwed up, what do i use to remove the paint. Do you think nail polish remover would work. Cause i saw my sis s bottle in my bathroom. Or is there some special stuff???

It all depends on what kind of paint you’ve used.
You can try borrow a dab of the NPR, most don’t contain much
“acetone” these days and should be ok for the plastics.

However pure acetone will dissolve your plastics!!

If you seriously know what you’re doing, the 1 good paint remover
is ovencleaner “EasyOff”. Warning this is caustic stuff and will
cause bad burns to skin & lungs (don’t ask). But I have stripped
BCG shells with it succesfully, just be careful and use it in a
ventilated space. Spray it on and leave overnight, scrub it a
little the next morning and maybe repeat.

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…think I put an enamel clear coat on an acrylic base, and it seemed to work out ok?

There are some “fake” synthetic enamels (some call them “acrylic enamels) that don’t really cure like the real thing… you probably
got one of these.

You were lucky… 😀

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