dazp1976

Had mine this morning, and now some bloke called Bill G keeps texting me saying he knows where I am.

You know that 0.0001 % that have a negative reaction? Yup thats me, I wouldn't dissuade anyone from the vaccine, but I would say ask for Pfizer if you get the option.

Was sick as a dog after #1, this time, nowt

You buy from a UK supplier.....but clearly they are not made here. They sell machine tools....not use them!

Yep. They reckon some manufacturing restrictions have been put in place over at the Chinese suppliers atm. How true it is is anyone's guess. Prob put the u.k. shipments to the back of the queue

Back on topic, I was surprised to find that the balance of trade US<>UK is pretty even : https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c4120.html.  In which case free trade shouldn't effect the balance if current rates are similar.  It should encourage more trade vs with other countries / unions as prices would be more competitive.

The real problem is that there is no way we'll get free trade with the US and the EU at the same time, and our EU trade is worth a LOT more.. I think £240B vs $24B, so guess which one is more important to government?

Put like that damn. Bob hope then.

But if we had free trade signed with usa, eu drops us. China India etc sign deals whoever else. Then increased trade potential. 

100b though eek. No 200b sheesh how much of that is energy? Is that the big slice? 

And what did May do in this critical phase of foreign relations......appointed Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary. The man who got that Iraqi woman an extra 5 years in jail by 'helping' .....

So who does she turn to when he bails hot on the heels of 'Brexit Minister' David Davis to avoid any responsibility for the disaster they have wrought....Jeremy Hunt. The man whose name is just rhyming slang......I expect. The man who did so much for the Health Service. He is a total Jeremy Hunt that one.

But lets look on the bright side. Boris got his job back writing a column or two ( estimated salary of £250K ), and along with the 74K he gets for representing Uxbridge ( unless he has to...you know...leave the country... when important things are happening) he has pretty much doubled his salary.

They implemented this a few months back, got me the same way - buyer made a mistake, I refunded, buyer got 100% back of what he sent, cost me 20p to do the right thing.

Just refuse to sell internationally, if they ask why, say because they're a rip off.

Not just international though.  I use the GSP thing a fair bit - stuff like associated is much more sought after in other places than the uk and the weak pound helps overseas buyers pay that bit more

This type of method is called forward only shipping

You guys are aware that if you select international postage offered, and eBay quotes and books the gsp shipping for the buyer when they pay( which is the standard way it works)....then...

You as the seller, are only responsible to ensure it arrives at the gsp centre, once it arrives at the gsp centre you're liability ceases....it then becomes the liability of eBay.....as the contract of international shipment is between eBay and the forwarding courier ( because ebay quoted , charged and arranged courier from UK to gsp to buyers address overseas)

This is written into law, I personally have experience with dealing with this.

Just something to bear in mind for the future.....

P.s I've had gsp destroy 4 parcels of mine this year, automatically refunded each time, me and buyer.....i use myhermes for European/asia postage now, never had an issue despite posting to lots of obscure places

I dont use it either but stupidly didnt see once and it was a 1/8 on road body. I found out hes in Japan and said no thank you. Twice. But he was persistent bidding anyway. I even removed his bid once. He told me about gsp or i ship to uk they sort it. 

Im glad i did it nowhe was very grateful and its cool its a kyosho Mitsubishi evo landmax body i imported from usa. Exported back to japan. Its been around the world in 15-20 odd years mayb. 

But still switch it off when i remember but was a really positive experience. 

That's good to hear too daz so quick to switch they at least saw the obvious lol. Now feedback him. 

It's just finished (8pm).

Didn't realize it wasn't on everything in the categories it had selected.

At least it got me my bits from China and boltbase. Phew. Saved myself £10, better than nowt

I missed this  

Thats annoying as.. i went direct thinking it will be the best lol. Literally 5min before seeing this. 

I've printed things for a few folk on the Forum.

Rough pricing is usually £0.05 per gram of material used, £1 an hour for printer run time + post (which is usually £4 for 2nd class signed for)

Cheers

Nice one matey. I'll give you a shout when I've got one.

Would you just need all the measurements for it or I could draw something up in inventor (with your advice on fit), export to .STL and send you the file.

Only way I'd watch them is through the scope of a 50 cal  

No rant actually. 

Im against having a royal family. 

I know the argument for keeping them. So i say evict them amd convert the royal places as true tourist attractions. Hotels leisure parks the lot. 

People dont come to see the royal family they come to see the history that isnt even that royal families. 

The BBC tracked down the true king of england. Hes a poor farmer with humpteen kids and 3x as many grand kids. Heir of henry the 8th. I think so. 

i only have one left, just want a brushless one next.

I couldn't sell mine, only sold a handful and regret selling half of those! 

Your toys, your rules, do what suits you. 

good luck buddy

To be fair, an old Range Rover or Landy or Jeep would have taken that abuse absolutely no problem at all.

These modern cars, you get less and pay more, can't see the fascination with newer numbers on the reg plate myself.

Was surprised by the Stelvio too and by far the cheapest.

Could havce saved them 30k, buy an older Landy and have done with it

Some of the potholes we have could pass along the same sort of shocks through the chassis, Or being court out by a speed bump doing 30, For the same thing to happen to two brand new cars is a design fault if I ever saw one, And now it's aired, Probably has Volvo worried,

Well. The stock motor mount on a HPI Trophy truggy is made of cast aluminum. Guess what?

I've snapped 4. Says it all for anything cast ally really.

We all know they're ALL made in the same Chinese factory then bought here, re-badged and a stupid price tag slapped on.

My Turnigy is a SKYRC ultimate & an Antimatter & a Hyperion EOS etc.

Price difference of £80 to £160 approx.

Paid £65 for mine new. As a Hyperion it's £160:

https://www.robotbirds.co.uk/default/hyperion-eos-0840i-dc-charger-8cell.html

Lasted 3 years so far.

Hmm, best of luck.....

Well. Where do most buy their ESC's and motors .

Same difference.

Never had an issue with Tomtop items. I don't need it but I'd rather this than forking out stupid for the same one with a prophet badge

Ahh I was only half joking mate it's the 300w 20a I have.

I'd just be replacing it with another one of those.

Guns got the 4*100w for the £155 a while ago. The OHO one is the 4*50w.

Bit much now for the Prophets.

Like Ross said. Normally a couple of 300w Reaktors a coolice and couple of paras = done.

The 1000w is a decent price though and if you have a few lipo's that can be done together ie: the same then it makes sense.

I've got the Turnigy mega 1000 and the Reaktor 1000 and they've been solid for ages. None of this keep replacing the charger every 6 months because it needs to run flat out all the time.

I needed mine because I run 6s and each battery uses 125w to charge at 1C. Regularly do 4 which runs at 490w according to my psu. (I bought a Chargery S1500 before I knew about the cheaper options)

These things are also ideal for Xmaxx 8s owners

Bit tight on amps if you have 4*8000mah 4s. If you wire up 2 each line in series for 8s though

Ill have to see what RC stuff i end up with, I only have 3x lipos at the mo soo

4mph?

Whens the MGM combo and 12s packs turning up?  

Might be looking into that in my Vita sport one

Spindle itself reads 0.004mm internally so seems ok there. Might get some more bearings and re-do it again. Very strange that every time I do a collet up it throws out by upto 0.08mm leaving a wobbly edge on material after a finish cut. More or less a new head on the damn thing with all that's been looked at.

Putting a longer Z axis screw on today/tomor so I can trial these direct collets properly. If they're come out as bad then:

One last ditch attempt with it using a R8 spindle and chuck/drawbar from Arc. Upgrade on the table with bigger screws. I have all the stuff here ready except the chuck. Prob take me a month to fit up and if still not good enough for my liking give up & get rid.

What a pain. I'd love to have a mill and lathe but haven't really got the space. 

Can you blue the morse taper on the chuck to make sure it's seating in the spindle correctly?  

Just out of interest have you got a taper that will take a jacobs chuck if so does that run true.?

Three core in and two out.

J

Newer PC power supplies need resistors to balance the 5v rail, the 12v rails are a bit weak imo.

I had an old 350w one when I started out which was plug and play up to 10A no probs with 6s lipo's. Went on to a newer 600w version and the 12v rail went bang after 5 mins at only 10A.

Those Chinese power supplies only need a twin & earth 3 core cable to an AC 240v plug on the input then your 2 leads + / - to your charger.

Yea, made alot more sense when I looked at the more expensive UK one’s Pictures. Seems simple enough. 

I had a bus overtake a Micra today in heavy snow and ice and follow me about 10 inches from my rear bumper for about a mile keeping in mind I was doing 40 in a 40 zone. Wish I had his company details or number plate but snow was covering

They do drive like animals thinking ther immortal in them busses too. Many are eastern eu too so really dont give a crap in and out. I see them on the cops show always breaking rules. Not resting usually. To resting on slip roads or hard shoulders. Police just talk to them then wave them on. 

Imagine how it must be on autobarns. 

Over seas drivers, many HGV, are fined on the spot, that will be either credit card or run to the nearest cash point. Otherwise the money would never be seen.... 

Yes mate. 24v. Don't think I'd pull 200A from it. Lion would be about 10x more expensive and the capacities aren't really there. Could get a rake of cheap 7.2 nimh's say 3300mah and tie them off 3 in series, 6 in parallel but then that's 18 of them needed for 19800mah. Hmmmmm. Large Lipo wouldn't be a prob as my charge system is pretty big. Might do a test when the weather gets a bit better tying off 4 of my current 6s 5000mah rc lipo in parallel with a LV alarm fitted.

Yeah there's no reason it won't work. Even with say one of your 5000mah if it's 40c or above then it's essentially the same spec as the 20000mah 10c for speed testing purposes and whatnot.

Got a part number on the motors at all? I would be very tempted to check the specs before potentially puffing a perfectly good 6s 

For a high draw application like that your not just gonna be able to use one lipo.....the size of the cells of 1 batt are just too small imo

You'd be better off using a bank of cells, i.e. multiple 2/3s high c lipos linked up...... Then you can maintain a higher C discharge....(C rating drops when using one larger lipo) meaning longer run time etc etc

Bonus is 2/3s lipos are cheap too!

Along these lines below....these are for e bikes so some go up to 48v but you get the idea, same general principles

Get yourself out on Saturday night and pick up a few customers 

Was a bit of an impulse buy Rich . I'll see how it goes with the 2 machines and keep one as mint as poss. Might get a fair bit back on it after conversion.

And Nikki. If I wasn't a fatty I prob would

Ooh, specialist interest market. Chubby chasers 

I hope you didn’t buy the same one again lol 

Well, yes I did . I was £500 short of the one I wanted and at the price I got for this one I couldn't say no . I'll try to refrain from operator error this time

I'll triple check the programming this time and not rush it. Measure twice & cut once. It's my own fault it bust Mind you the motors on the small ones are way under powered and can't handle much.

bored to  death waiting togo home

Hope it goes well then.

..u aint aving no luck with that thing r u dude

Lol time for a nice garden bonfire and call it a day