Why o why did they let you out of the lunatic asylum?
"Beav" <beavis.original@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Leeds-Mick via ModelGeeks.com" <u42018@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> I've spent the last 12 years trying to persuade a freind of mine to
sell
>> me
>> this old model helicopter hes had, sitting in bits in his garage for 12
>> years
>> or more.
>
> It's taken you 12 years to concnve yourself yoou're a mad as a ****ing
> hatter?
>
>>He wouldnt, and still hasnt, but, about 2 months ago, he gave me it,
>> and asked me to see if i could return it to flying condition.
>
> It'll be the first time not a "return to". The MFA was, is and always
will
> be a total pile of ****e. Even my bin would spit the ****er out.
>
>
>>It has no
>> identifying marks on it, and he had no idea what it was, so after a lot
>> of
>> cleaning and sorting, i took the main frame to my local Model shop. The
>> gentleman there, first laughed, then commented on how he hadnt seen one
>> of
>> these in years, and identified it as the s****t 500. He told me that
they
>> were
>> crap 20 years ago,
>
> And he'd be dead right too.
>
>
>>id have no chance of finding parts, including blades, and
>> the best thing i could do was throw it in the bin. My freind and I
have,
>> however, decided to make it our 'Bolton Paul Defiant' project, where
you
>> take
>> a useless old aircraft, and restore it to flight, simply because its
old.
>
> That's a bit like digging up an old whore and shoving 500,000 volts up
her
> jacksie because "she ****s". there are FAR better ways to spend your
time
> y'know. Squeezing blackheads would come before rebuilding a 500 too.
More
> rewarding and definitely more likely to succeed.
>
>
>> All
>> my research, which has led me here to you guys, tells me the man in the
>> shop
>> was right, but i hold to the belief that its all a matter of
perspective.
>
> No it's not. The MFA was a lost cause before it was even a casue.
>
>
>>To
>> him with his 3d turbo ninja t rex'd honey bee's, and his years of
flying
>> experiance, our aircraft is a complete and utter waste of time, and no
>> doubt
>> many of you will share his belief, but ive never flown any models ever,
>> only
>> the real things a few times, many years ago, so its still an exiting
>> project
>> for me.
>
> You're doomed to disappointment if you think you're going to fly this
> thng. Waste your time, by all means, but that's exactly what you WILL be
> doing.
>
>> I ve discovered from my resaerch, that there is something called a
>> teeter spring, which ours doesnt appear to have, so i am hoping that
>> someone
>> out there will be able to provide me with a manual, and a little help
and
>> advice,
>
> The teeter spring is a short length of piano wire that attaches under
the
> rotor head and contacts with the "see-saw" that IS the rotor head. It's
> job is to "control" the speed at which the rotor deflection is carried
> into the rotor mast. It was crap in the 70's and it'll be crap in the
> Noughties too.
>
>> other than bin it.
>
> But that's the BEST advice you could get.
>
>
>> Even if its final flight is an acceleration into
>> mother earth, it ll still have been a interesting engineering
experiment,
>> and
>> a damn good laugh!
>
> It won't be its final flight, it'll be it's first and only. Why not just
> rip a few quid up and slot them down the nearest grid and take your time
> doing it, coz you'll only be wasting time and money ****ing about with
> that POS.
>
> Of course, I AM being very restrained.
>
>
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> Beav
>
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