Jun 28, 2006 by cute_dave80 | Posted in Hobbies & Crafts
I'm planning to use an OS 40LA or OS 10FP for my small VTOL project, can I place it facing up and not damage their bushings? will the fuel drawn to the carburetor be more lean if i place the tank directly below the engine?
Me nor my dad own either engine. ...but I can tell you this...placing the engine face up will most likely be hard on the bushings and the bushings can be damaged. As for the fuel draw, your fuel tank should be placed in-line (same height, as close as
ModelFlyerChick | Jun 28, 2006
OS Engines 12TZ
OS Engines 12TZ
OS Engines FS-48 Surpass Diesel Conversion & Etherless Fuel
In this video I run the FS-48 diesel conversion I did in 2006. I rebuilt it last year to replace a damaged liner and ring (unrelated to the diesel ...
OS Engines 21TM
OS Engines 21TM
Thoughts from abroad – general purpose vs specialist
I’ve taken 2 weeks off the blog as I’ve been on holiday in Florida.
A couple of things I can reflect on during my experiences at that time. One my kids loved Disney! Second and more important for a technology blog my experience with the current darling of the mobile world the iPad, and I’ll relate this back to Systems Architecture. (In my previous life for Sybase I worked for 4 years on the mobile side taking application enablement to partners and the channel, and I have a constant interest in the mobile world as well as the IB world. )
One of the things I decide for my holiday was to pack lighter (not light as that is impossible with my family). I took a Flip Video HD instead of a bulky camcorder and an iPad instead of a laptop. 2 lessons I learned technology wise.
1. Flip video HD works really well as point and click family videos.
2. The iPad worked better than my laptop in almost all respects for the holiday. I planned to use the iPad to copy across videos and pictures from my camera and Flip onto the iPad thus saving space and also use the iPad for WiFi browsing as I was staying in Wi-Fi enabled areas (looking up places to go that sort of thing).
Secondly the iPad was going to tide my kids (and therefore me) through the 9 hour flight to Miami. Well the iPad and its 10 hour battery life worked a treat. Not only did my kids stay peaceful during the flight (the mix of game, educational apps, videos and drawing keeping them amused) but also during the vacation itself. I lost my camera at the Haunted Mansion but luckily I’d got a copy of the pics on the iPad (durability through redundancy should be the cornerstone of any backup plan!).
It strikes me that really the success of the iPad apart from phenomal marketing and the Apple brand magic is that it is designed for a purpose (as a focused device mainly for consumption).
The difference with a Windows powered laptop is night and day and it’s the strength and limitation of a fit for purpose device vs the general purpose device (versatility and performance tradeoff) .
