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Bullsheet - November 2001
Vol. 01 No. 11 - November 2001 |
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President's Message |
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November is here and I hope everyone is in good health. With Thanksgiving around the corner the holidays are upon us. The Yankee Swap will be next month, with the Club Auction the following month. Boy it just shows you how time flies! As you may know I am stepping down as the President and I would like to take this opportunity to tell you that I have enjoyed serving you as VP in 2000 and as your President in 2001. In 2000 we completed our Flying Field with fencing and a great looking shelter. This was an awesome looking Flying Field. In 2001 you all know the problems we had. In 2002 we will put this field back to Awesome Status! I would like to thank Richard, John and Kip. It was a pleasure serving with you. I had some great times with you at Fun-Flies, not to mention the fun at the Officers meetings. I would like to thank Ray Breton for always being there whenever we needed fertilizer spread or anything as far as that goes. Thank you Ray. Ken Ux for coordinating the mowing and keeping us supplied with gas and oil or anything else we needed! And also for putting on a great Fun-Fly! Thank you Kenny I would like to thank our former President Rick Lazzar and his wife Denise for supplying us with coffee & donuts every meeting! Not to mention that Rick always entertains us at a meeting with a new model almost every month! Darrell & Maurice put together a great Auction. The setup is First Class. I thank you both for your time and expertise! We have a Bullsheet Editor that would always like more input for the paper. Bob Johnson does a wonderful job no mater how much input he has. Thank you Bob! Thank You Richard for shagging the raffle Prizes and running them with Ralph. A lot of these prizes are donated by R/C Buyers Warehouse. Thank you Bob Brodeur for your support and generosity to SNHRCC through out the many, many years I have known you! Kip, is not only our Treasurer, but he logs more hours on the computer than anybody I know. That is probably why we have such a dynamite looking Website. Thanks for all the hard work Kip! John Hayes our secretary, does more leg-work for this club than you can imagine, he deals with the schools so we can have a room to hold our meetings in. He handles our insurance and provides certificates to the town so we can fly at our field. He deals with all the AMA paper work! I could go on and on. John Hayes is serving his 10th season as secretary for SNHRCC. That’s right, a decade of service. That my friends is a dedicated member, modeler, and friend. I would like to join in with the members of the SNHRCC and just say "thank you for your outstanding service and dedication to the club and hobby!" You give a new meaning to the words. ABOVE & BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY! P.S. gone hunting !!!!!!! -- Harry Peters Jr. |
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Elections This Month |
| This monthly meeting is the election meeting for officers. Nominations were opened at the October meeting and will close at the November meeting followed by voting.
Current nominations are;
The meeting will be at the Litchfield Middle School beginning at 7:30 pm. -- Harry Peters Jr. |
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GONE HUNTING! |
| You may have noticed Harry's alert that he has gone hunting. Not sure what that has to do with airplanes, but Rich Kelley sent along this photo to prove that Harry was not kidding.
The editorial caption is Rich's commentary on Harry's attention to duty. By the way here is a picture that Rich sent in showing the deer just before Harry bagged it.
Good Luck Harry! -- Bob Johnson |
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SQUAWKS!! |
| Here are some actual logged maintenance omplaints and problems, known as "squawks," submitted by QUANTAS pilots and the solution recorded by maintenance engineers.
P = The problem logged by the pilot. P: Left inside main tire almost needs replacement. P: Test flight OK, except Autoland very rough. P: No. 2 propeller seeping prop fluid. P: Something loose in cockpit. P: Dead bugs on windshield. P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200-fpm descent. P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear. P: DME volume unbelievably loud. P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick. P: IFF inoperative. P: Suspected crack in windscreen. P: Number 3 engine missing. P: Aircraft handles funny. P: Target radar hums. P: Mouse in cockpit. -- forwarded by Dick Easton |
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General Hints & Kinks! |
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NYLON NUTS Trouble holding your cowl on? Bolts falling out? Use a yellow nylon pushrod (with flutes), about 1/2-inch long is good. Plug up one end with a piece of balsa; drill a 9/64-inch hole in the fuselage (fiberglass should be backed up with balsa or hardwood) where you want a fastener to be. Glop up the hole and nylon piece with medium C/A and force the nylon into the hole. Now use any kind of 2-56 screw or #2 sheet metal screw. The nylon will be your Locktite. The hole/thread should never wear out, but if it does, so-what? How hard is it to drill the old stuff out and put in a new piece? The Green Bottle “ZAP C/A+” sticks to oil or oil soaked wood without fail and allows you to retrofit your airplane! FIRE WALL HOLES If you use standard silicon tubing for your fuel line, then what you need is a 13/64-inch drill hole (.203 inch diameter, standard silicone tubing is .220 inch) through your firewall. Dress up the front and back with a counter sink, add some thin C/A to fuel proof the hole and you can replace fuel line tubing until the cows come home and never have to seal the holes. Cut the end at a severe angle to feed it easily through the hole. The tubing pulls through with a little force, thus allowing the tubing itself to do the sealing. No more oil leakage into the tank compartment! Hint: RED for fuel flow; BLUE for air pressure-return; no confusion. FUEL LINE Silicone is neat stuff, flexible, fuel proof, at least for methanol fuels. However, it is very poor in abrasion resistance. Any fuel line touching anything else, like the engine, and is free to move will wear a hole in the tubing. Not just sometimes, every time. Carry an extra package of tubing and replace every 100 flights or at any hint of fuel related trouble. Where the tubing is HELD in place, like through the firewall, no signs of wear have ever been seen by this author. ENGINE MOUNTING In the olden days, we mounted 40’s and 60’s to aluminum engine mounts with 10-32 screws into tapped holes with nuts for safety. Whoa, talk about a bunch of un-needed weight. A current 1.4 engine (any stroke) can put out about 20 pounds of thrust (This is a guestimate, error on the HIGH side). Using a 4 to 1 safety factor, a single little 4-40 bolt can hold about 219 pounds in tension, or hold back about 60 pounds in shear. Pay attention now! If you hold an engine on to an engine mount with four 4-40 bolts, then you must not go over 240 pounds total thrust. Your engine mount is bolted to a firewall with three 4-40 bolts. That allows for 657 pounds maximum tensile or pull. Is this enough?! [For comparison: 6-32 tensile is 335 lbs, shear is 75 lbs; 2-56 tensile is 129 lbs, shear is 36 lbs] By the way, how much firewall do you need if the engine is only pulling 20 pounds? I will bet you have a 40-size trainer with 3/8-inch ply firewall. Will 1/8-inch hard plywood do? Absolutely. We use 1/4 inch and above for houses. PS: cut some aluminum tubing to act as spacers to center the 4-40 in the big engine mount holes. OK, don’t tempt fate by using 2-56 bolts. You can tighten them too much, too easily thus reducing the strength left by a LOT. -- Tom Loose |
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TOUCH & GO! |
| We regret to report the passing of a club member, Paul Boissonnault.
Here are the directions to the new meeting location: The SNHRCC has a new meeting place, beginning at the November meeting and every month after that we will be meeting at the Litchfield Middle School. Directions are easy, since everyone knows where we were meeting (Griffin Memorial). Three hundred yards south of the Griffin Memorial School is Pincrest Rd. Coming from the north it's on the left. Coming from the South it would be 300 yds before the Griffin school on the right. Go 200 - 300 yards up Pincrest Rd. take McElwain Dr. on the left, go 200 - 300 yds and McElwain Dr. opens up right into the school parking lot. The cafeteria is on the right side and the doors on the right side of the courtyard will be the right ones to use. Just inside the doors on the right is the cafeteria. |
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SWAP SHOP |
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NEW Hobby Shop! |
| Hello Members!
My name is Ted Zadlo and I recently became a member of the club. As the owner of Pat O'Brien's Country Framer & Hobbies, I would like to extend an invitation to visit our quaint store. We specialize in aviation art, general hobbies and basic R/C supplies such as fuel, hardware, props, balsa, kits, etc. Soon we will be stocking motors and radios. We carry SIG products, Balsa USA, Nelson paints and hardware, Graupner electric products, with more on the way. We are a dealer for Fiberclassics, Yellow Aircraft, Dare Hobbies, Clark Industries, Megatech, Tamiya, Irvine Engines, First Place Engines, B&B Mufflers and Quadra Engines. We offer discounts to club members on all aviation art and custom framing. Special orders are never a problem.
We are looking forward to serving you! -- Ted Zadlo |
