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  1. joshgluck

    3DHS New Products and General Plane Info/Help for Fanatics

    Funny this came up. Our field is grass and not usually well trimmed. I don't care so much about wearing pants, ask my wife, but I do not want to get stuck in a rut on taxi or dump the prop on landing. Does anyone run super cub wheels on their 3dhs planes when running on grass? I'm worried most...
  2. joshgluck

    Help! I need another charger and have a couple questions about power supplys.

    Saved by the RC brotherhood!!!
  3. joshgluck

    3DHS New Products and General Plane Info/Help for Fanatics

    Looking good Dan! I got out of helis before the FBL craze.. How do you like it?
  4. joshgluck

    Help! I need another charger and have a couple questions about power supplys.

    Well said. Also your ps is rated at 19amps and only 260w for 12v according to the face plate. Just don't want to see you spend a ton on a charger and be unable to use it. For my pl8 I have dual servers power supplies that we were throwing away at work. Know anyone who works in IT? As for the...
  5. joshgluck

    Help! I need another charger and have a couple questions about power supplys.

    So what size packs do you plan to charge? If you are doing 12v at 300w you need to figure out the voltage, number of cells, figure if you want to charge at 1c or more and the capacity of the battery. You should be fine if are charging nimh or smaller lipos packs. At that point though why not get...
  6. joshgluck

    New Here? Introduce yourself!

    +1 on the twisted hobbies suggestion. I had a crack yak and loved it. Easy to assemble and a blast to fly. Much less pucker factor since welders will heal all wounds. Highly suggest extra tubes of welders and extra prop saver bands.. Never broke a prop but did break a few of the bands as I never...
  7. joshgluck

    Help! I need another charger and have a couple questions about power supplys.

    It will help because someone else has figured out what jumpers to short so will need the model number. I also wonder what you plan to charge. There has been a debate about one bug charger vs a few small ones especially for field charging. The pro of one big one is massive parallel charging the...
  8. joshgluck

    3DHS New Products and General Plane Info/Help for Fanatics

    I've heard of people replacing canopies with soda bottles, do you think you could do that? Glue and paint sound good as a hold over until you can get a real replacement too.
  9. joshgluck

    Help! I need another charger and have a couple questions about power supplys.

    What are the power input requirements for the charger you are looking at getting? 12v or 24v? How many watts? This will help determine if your 2005 computer supply will work. As to how to make it work, that depends on its make and model. It's probably a 450w desktop switching supply with 5v and...
  10. joshgluck

    3DHS New Products and General Plane Info/Help for Fanatics

    My search came up empty too.. Didn't look at rc groups or rc universe yet. Maybe they have a for sale posting? Any pics of the damage. What broke? Repairable? Good luck
  11. joshgluck

    3DHS New Products and General Plane Info/Help for Fanatics

    I've worked with esprit before and their customer service was awesome. They helped me with a few components for my osiris including a hacker motor. I'm with gyro on this one... Go get it!
  12. joshgluck

    New Here? Introduce yourself!

    So as they say better late then never, right? I've been posting in other threads and lurking for a little while so figured it's time to say hi. Allow myself to introduce myself: I'm Josh, a member of Jersey Coast Sport Fliers, located in Middletown NJ. We fly out of Dorbrook Park which is part...
  13. joshgluck

    sunglasses and prescriptions

    +1 I have polarized Oakley gas cans and love them for flying and riding the bike. I am supposed to wear prescription lenses so I have a pair of polarized rx ray bans and I don't like them. Things are a bit crisper but I get a really odd optical distortion when flying an approach from the right...
  14. joshgluck

    The 3DRCForums -Discuss Anything Thread-

    Pedo van?
  15. joshgluck

    WRAM 2013: 3DRCF Event Coverage and Member Experiences!

    Shhhh... The family might hear you :-) That's how I made wram on Friday.. When my wife said hey why not go on Saturday to that thing you wanted to go to, I said "well if you really don't mind?" and before she could answer I had my son packed up and we were pulling out in the car.
  16. joshgluck

    3DHS 42" slick

    Thanks! Curious as I'm just getting into electrics... What lead you to choose sunny over motrofly over hacker?
  17. joshgluck

    3DHS 42" slick

    On the glaciers with the recommended omega what kind of times are you getting?
  18. joshgluck

    3DHS 58" Edge 540

    Just curious - anyone convert this to gas? Was thinking that the newer 10cc motors might be interesting. I don't have the budget right now to get a bigger gasser so I am interested in what people think about the 58/59 edge/slick as a smaller gas plane.
  19. joshgluck

    3DHS New Products and General Plane Info/Help for Fanatics

    Thanks guys... I have tried to nut and string before and it worked well when it was fishing through a wing and there was a clear channel. EPP chanel seems really tight so I think the control rod or similar is the right bet. Appreciate the pointer on the wood screws, etc. for the motor. Will...
  20. joshgluck

    3DHS 42" slick

    Arggh.. Trying to decide which packs to buy. I was going to do 3s2200 and saw a bunch of folks say they are too heavy so I am thinking of dialing it back to 3s1800mah. Attracted to Sky Lipo or Glacier.. TP and Gens Ace seem to be too pricey to me especially if I am buying 4-6 packs...
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