Staigen Posted September 4, 2005 Report Share Posted September 4, 2005 And the 3:rd part://StaigenHydrofoamwmv.part3.rar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staigen Posted September 4, 2005 Report Share Posted September 4, 2005 Put the files in a temporarily map(directory), start up RAR(maybee you need version 3.50 or higer) and extract the file, RAR maybee ask you for the path to the next 2 files, just type it in. Hopefully this will work! ;D//Staigen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ante Posted September 5, 2005 Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 Good job Staigen! Now Alun can see the video too! ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staigen Posted September 5, 2005 Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 Hi AnteMy thought too, and other buddys with only a modem connection, reading this thread! :)//Staigen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audioguru Posted September 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 Yesterday I gave the HydroFoam video's link to the local electric model airplane club. They are still laughing about it today. They told me where to stuff the Lawnmover video, they don't like smokey and noisy engines.I need a cheap radio control system.It is windy outside and winter is coming.My electric airplane takes up half my kitchen table when I'm fixing it.Hey, I have a $10.00 radio controlled micro car. I'll make an indoors ultralight little radio controlled electric airplane! I made a rubber-string powered one when I was a kid and it flew around in the living room for about a minute and a half. The propeller turned about 120 RPM, wuff, wuff, wuff. Like that. ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staigen Posted September 5, 2005 Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 HiI also remember those airplanes we built, in the 50:ies ;D! But ours were somewhat bigger, they flew about 50 to 100 meters, than you have to rev up their rubber engine again ;D ;D! But it was fun ;D!Of course you should make your plane radiocontroled!//Staigen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audioguru Posted September 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 Hi Staigen,In the 50's I went high-tech and got myself a geared winder for my rubber powered planes. A few years later when I got into the smokey, noisy planes I used a #6 dry cell to heat their glow plug. Have you seen the size and weight of a #6 dry cell? It could supply so much current it could light a paperclip. ;D ;DNow, I'm going low-tech and behaving like a kid again. Lots of fun. ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staigen Posted September 5, 2005 Report Share Posted September 5, 2005 Hi AudioguruNo, i haven't the slightest idea what a #6 dry cell is, but, is it about 2 inches in diameter and about 4 or 5 inches high? If so, then they are called tube glow battery here in sweden. They were aso used for glow plugs in those small engines. I did not had such a plane, i went for electonics instead.//Staigen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audioguru Posted September 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 Hi Staigen,You are close to the size, it is a little bigger than you remember. It is smaller than I remember and I wish they had its weight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staigen Posted September 6, 2005 Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 Hi againThats the battery! ;D//Staigen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staigen Posted September 6, 2005 Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 Oh no, now i'm back againThe battery was used for filament of tubes like 1H5, 1N5, 1C5 etc etc! :) Nice time :)!//Staigen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audioguru Posted September 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 Big, heavy batteries to light toobz?The 1st portable radio I got in about 1957 had real transistors. It was a fairly small AM radio with a tapped 9V battery and a nice leather case. Later I used 2 ordinary 9V batteries in series and it was louder than anyone else had, and didn't smoke or blow up.I had to fight with my twin sister over it. I am 1/2 hour older than her. ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staigen Posted September 6, 2005 Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 HeheBig, heavy batteries to light toobz?Yepp, and a bigger one for the anodes and screens, 108 Volts with taps at 90 and 99 Volts, if i remember right! You used the 90 tap when the battery was new and the others when the battery started to get exhausted!The 1st portable radio I got in about 1957 had real transistors.In 1957 transistor radios was very expensive here in Sweden! I dont remember prices.It was a fairly small AM radio with a tapped 9V batteryTapped battery? Was it running on several voltages?Later I used 2 ordinary 9V batteries in seriesDid you run a 9Volt radio on 18 Volts? Without smoking the output stage? Hehe ;D! No wonder it was loud ;D ;D!I had to fight with my twin sister over it. I am 1/2 hour older than her.How old are you? I was born in the beginning of 1946, so i'm 60 soon!//Staigen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audioguru Posted September 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 Hi Staigen,Our nice uncle gave my sister and me for our birthday almost the 1st transistor radio ever made. A boss of mine at work gave me almost the 1st scientific calculator ever made, but it was very old when he gave it to me. It had a blue florescent display and was very slow. It took minutes to calculate some logs.In university my calculator with its LED display had the longest battery life than anyone else had. I wired an electrolytic cap across the battery. Multiplexed LEDs operate with a very high peak current that is supplied longer by the cap when the battery become weak. I'm ahead of you. I turned 60 a couple of weeks ago and get my 1st government pension cheque this month. Happy Birthday to you soon. ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staigen Posted September 6, 2005 Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 And now i'm here againIt was a fairly small AM radio with a tapped 9V batteryTapped battery? Was it running on several voltages???I'm ahead of you. I turned 60 a couple of weeks ago and get my 1st government pension cheque this month. Happy Birthday to you soon. Thank you :). Then we are about the same age ;D!//Staigen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audioguru Posted September 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 Yeah, it was 4.5V plus another 4.5V. I never saw its schematic because it would have looked like snakes and ladders to me without any electronics knowledge at the time.He, he. You are just a young whipper-snapper. I am at least 4 months older than you. ;D ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staigen Posted September 6, 2005 Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 HeheHe, he. You are just a young whipper-snapper. I am at least 4 months older than you.Hehe, but i'm fatter than you ;D ;D//Staigen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staigen Posted September 6, 2005 Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 BtwI belive the tap was for the speakers common supply. No output tranny, cheaper, simplier and better! :) I can get you a simple schematic, if you want!//Staigen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ante Posted September 6, 2005 Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 Wow, 120 years of experience in the same thread!!! Respect this!! ;D ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audioguru Posted September 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 I think it is better to have a mixture of people's ages in a discussion.Since Staigen and I are the same age then maybe we both learned the same mistakes that were corrected later. ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ante Posted September 7, 2005 Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 Someone said: a mix of brains is better than a mixed up brain. Whatever that means? ??? ;DI like you both very much, you make me feel young! ;D ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
audioguru Posted September 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2005 Either my Internet Explorer is mixed-up or this site is.I had to reload this page about 20 times to make it complete loading. >:( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staigen Posted September 8, 2005 Report Share Posted September 8, 2005 No problems here, it must be internet or your ISP or at your computer! ;D ;D//Staigen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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