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Condolences.

Jeff, your having quite a bad week, I think you should go home, and sit and remember your friend, the good times, and have a quiet cuppa, with Sharyn and have a chat.

I don't think people really get a chance these days to grieve properly, we are all too busy just working, and doing all the living stuff. Its okay to take a little time to remember your friend.

^^^Good call Azzy.

Time for a snooze. Ciao!

night Jim, its bed time for me as well.

Night all.

Time for bed for me as well.

Well, the plane came today and I got some time in tinkering with it in the garage. repairing the crash damage was actually pretty quick and easy........putting everything back togethor that was undone when it was scheduled for the scrap pile....is a pain....

All the servos are in place and all of the control rods run and attached to their appropriate control surface....just have to connect them to the servos then it's off to the hobby shop for a glow plug heater, starter and some fuel.

Sounds like fun.

Something to keep me occupied while fixing it up......can't work on the Landy until Thursday when parts get here......I'll probably have the plane ready by then...If not, I'll get it knocked out this weekend.
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I ripped the stupid cowl off.....damn thing is just there to look pretty anyway and they break easy

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6pm-2am in the shop on my birthday with the result of a heim joint shearing and taking the rest of the rod ends on the front right corner with it as it failed during a low speed turn. Am I having fun yet?

Today made a new link (luckily they are dead simple to make, unlike A-arms and we only needed one) and replaced all the heim joints on that corner. Then took the car out 10pm tonight and it ran a bit, turned a corner successfully only to have some intermittent elecrical problems which could result in 170 pounds of burning Lithium. More fun that last night because it's not my problem. :D

We are thinking it was the apes assembling the car that would periodically step on the links, use the threads of the heim joints in bending to support the car on the table, and overarticulating them. Every time I saw that I would chew them out but I couldn't be there all the time. I hate to say I told you so but those were designed to be 2 force members and bending was not one of those forces!

Luckily we tend to be nocturnal so no one was around to see it fail at 1:30 in the morning. And the car is quiet so no one woke up to see what was going on. The failure happened at relatively slow speed. The forces going through the links were nowhere near the tensile breaking point, and it failed with a clean break- shear, no necking or bulging from too much tension or compression. So we think rough handling caused a notch that fatigued the link until it went last night.

Morning Y'all
Happy humpday

Good morning, Rick. I need to go find a hump day pic for the girls... And I will throw in a red head for you. :)

M#€%@mmmmornin...

Works for me Tweeze

Guzntite there Jim

Yo. Need sleep.

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Me too Jim!!!
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I found two red hotties for you, Rick! They are gorgeous!

Now for the ladies... This will never get old for me:

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Hello, Ryan Gosling. My name is Tweeze and I love you. ;)

Works for me :D