Paul Busby

Drugs are bad, mkay. 😆

Said with The Verve playing in the background. 

...or "the streets" perhaps 😄

My Typhon 6s was sitting outside the front door for six hours, in the open. Got delivered at 8ish, didn't get any notification, didn't ring/knock (i was awake and refreshing the DPD page every 30 seconds because i'm childishly excited), found the RC then in front of the door when we wanted to leave for shopping at 2ish. 

It's not just Parcelforce that sucks in this.

I didn't even get a card. I don't even think they loaded it onto a van, I think they just decided to not send it out yesterday and clicked the button on the system to say that it was by my request.

Thing is, I don't mind if they don't get it sorted and shipped on time due to a backlog, if they just admit this is the situation. When the tracking says, "customer requested xyz" is when my back gets up.

I presume this is to try and avoid refunds on the postage cost due to not meeting the delivery target, so I might talk to RPRC and find out if I can fight them to get my £3.99 back out of pure spite for the lie 😂

The package is on the map today though, so perhaps they will actually deliver it.

Paul...no...they NEVER tryed to deliver. The scan shows you requesting later delivery..... 'addressee requested later delivery'

Contact the supplier, and give them the story and turn the screws. Tell them this:

What has happened is the depot have not put it on the van. Probably had a driver go sick ( it's Easter...with a couple of short weeks, and holiday is in demand. Folks dont get the time off...go sick) then, rather than show the failure....they have scanned it to make it look like you requested it, so the depot figures look better. Probably did it to hundreds of items. The item never moved, and you never requested a delivery...in fact...you took the day off to wait in JUST for this item as it was due.

If a delivery was 'attempted' you would see that.

How do I know this? Simple....I worked for Parcelforce for 27 years. Took redundancy this March. There isn't a trick I don't know 😉

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiskars-Classic-Dressmaking-Scissors-Length/dp/B0001P08L0

These are good but any you can unscrew to sharpen will last a while. 

These are what I use, they're shears technically

Im surprised Carbon fibre would hold an edge?

Have you seen the bashers n crashers group...? 

It's a great group tbf... But some of the the members make me wonder how the op survived until the point they made the post

Sounds like a riot 😄

I don't know why I do it to myself, but I requested to join.

Here's some recent, there's much much worse ones I never caught 

Did they copy a WL toys design? Though I'm sure it's most likely the other way round...

@Bert_w164I think it's safe to say that Tekno is not copying WLToys.

200% Agree!! 

....But I've already pre-ordered one.   😭

My final day of my current 9-5, I've been WFH for the year and my new job is 100% back in the office, I'm dreading that part!

Yeah im still WFH... just earning a lot less than the good old pre-covid days 😞

Best of luck with the new job mate!

Any shops in UK sell spares

Tekno parts are expensive, I bought a new bumper just for the upper brace earlier in the week and that was a small fortune 

@turok007RPRC Distribution are the dealer in the UK. Top guys, really nice to deal with and very knowledgable if you need some assistance deciding/understanding what you're buying.

@.AJ. Yeah you can perhaps see why I decided to print the part that I lost from the centre diff mount. Don't think I can get away with printing an Arm... although that doesn't excuse me buying all the carbon fibre upgrade parts that just emptied my account. 🤪

Definitely could have designed and printed some of those... but the Enduro is getting my attention at the moment.

It's just a good thing that, in the most part, their parts are very durable and don't break much. The accident that took out the arm on my ET would have taken out any RC car... I was going full pelt, probably 40+ MPH and a wheel hit a breezeblock....

I hear very good things about the HPI trail creator kit

I still vote Enduro, lower price and better specced than the SCX10ii.

Looks like I might be getting OHO's Enduro 🙂

Congrats Paul !!!

Well done and congrats @Paul Busby . Great way to start 2021. 

Just need to resist the urge to buy an LMT until I have actually got an offer

I'm watching a few second hand GTX 750 Ti on ebay... seem to be old enough that they're still cheap, but would be good enough to play some more basic and old titles

My brother in law has a couple of XFX Radeon HD6850 GPUS lying around. One is the higher-clocked Black Edition.

Severely long in the tooth, but you can have them for very little. I'll see what he wants for them, if you're interested.

Your GTX 750 Ti is better, though!

@Darren FrostyI have a Qidi X Max which has an enclosure. With the more engineering grade filaments, you have to preheat the enclosure to get the temps up to a consistent level. I then have to swap out for the high temp extruder which has a hardened steel nozzle and a PEEK tube, as PTFE tube shouldn't be used over 250c and we're going to be running at 260-300c, depending on the polycarbonate brand. Pure polycarbonate should need to be at the higher end of that scale, but pure polycarbonate is also much much much more difficult to print without the edges warping and peeling up. You also have to have the bed temp... basically as high as it will go, so around 100-120c on mine, from memory. You also need to be as level and flat as you can possibly be.

Polycarbonate is SUPER rigid when you making a thick object though. It's technically much tougher than nylon in almost every metric, but nylon has a bit more flex and will bend, rather than shatter. I've always preferred the results.

It's still tough to print, but there is a couple of brands that make stuff that has much less requirement for enclosure and constant temperature conditions.

I have learned/developed a couple of tricks from being on a few facebook groups as to how to improve prints. For example, glass bed with a thin wash of PVA glue helps with almost all filaments and putting a brim on the print, then deburring afterwards.

Feel free to ping me a message if you want to chat about it... im not an expert exactly, but I am a total research nerd and happy to help.

that's a beast of a printer. Back when fidget spinners were a thing I ran 2 wanhao i3's and a prusa knocking out the damn things as fast as they could print. Made a few quid doing it too, but it was **** easy compared to what you're doing.

See that's sensible though mate... I'm not doing (many) things sensibly 😄

Ohhh, I know they do spit flames, people just said they don't because it was Kev... I'm not his biggest fan but the video doesn't lie.

It does beg the question, just how much testing went into these ESCs before bringing them to market.

agree with Nitroholic and dan  seen it happen on a HPI 6s esc my mates savage flipped in wood lands and started smoking he tried taking the shell off to remove the plugs and flame on !! luckily he had a harden shell at the time or could of been alot worst

@Redback - The modes available are Sensored only, Smart Sensor, and Brushed. Smart sensor will detect if you have a sensor or not, and that's the one Kev was using when his went up. Not sure about this guy, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and presume that he's using smart sensor.

30hr's that's just crazy..!! wtf are you printing 🤔

This mama-jama

I modified the design and got it down to 22 hours for the next one 😄

Yeah he has it running at the end and it just seems like a total waste of time, but it looks so cool.

It’s probably lost power 😂

And didn't make any cool whoosh noises. 😑

Happy New Year mate 

Happy new year 

Happy New Year Paul and all. 👍

I've also posted in a couple of other places, and contacted a few companies that do/sell shipping container conversions, so far feeling a bit better about the approach we have takenand people seem to think that ventillation and sealing up as best as possible should do the trick.

I've got some vents ordered, I've got a dehumidifier on the way, just need to build myself up a bit to deal with insulation again 🤢

Paul, would maybe be worth posting up on Singletrackworld Forum, there are few guys on there that are seriously into building some amazing sheds/garden offices etc, I think a few were even on Tv with them, a lot of knowledge, so perhaps post your build images and issue,

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/

Thanks AG, good to know there is another resource pool of well schooled folk with some experience. I think with all the places I have posted already and the feedback I've had, I'm going to stop talking and start working. Going to head up there today and start moving my kit out again I think, let the room air out, maybe take a couple more panels down.

i get that all the time paul trying to type in the webby for redeliveries like the krypton factor lol

Hahaha Krypton factor, that’s proper old school 😂😂😂

I have your reference right here, all you have to do is tell me what the colour the fourth block to the left was?

Noice. Good to hear. 

CNC set up? My fan mount already made? Can you give me a tracking number? I'd assume it'll arrive around later tonight?

More lambs to the slaughter 😂😂

what i love about the teknos paul those chassis so well balanced jumping thems a pure joy

I was amazed at how little air control was actually needed!

People saying this car isnt for bashing are idiots. This car makes an awesome basher.

exactly paul teknos can bash or race why there best of the best buddy !!

What did you run it in? I run a SkyRC combo in both of my Laydowns, never failed me... It's definitely expensive if you buy it from the UK though. I always import it from HK at half the cost!

8.5t motor in an ET410 with a 17t pinion. Very lazy set-up, shouldn't have been any issues for it.

I had the 120a ESC in my b6 and was great. Maybe you got a duff one? 

Seems like this is a pretty good "out the box" solution, even if it is a little higher KV

https://wheelspinmodels.co.uk/i/310275/

I’m pretty sure they did that combo with a 17.5t, but if not it will definitely work 👌 

Yeah the wecsite shows a 17.5... ill keep looking to see if i can find it anywhere

Edit - Ordered one

Naaa, lol, I love a good build thread, especially when it’s for model I’ve not really seen before 

Bit late for that now haha

you are going to have to take it apart put it back in all the bags, tape the bags back up and start again or AJ will ban you