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SCAT Electronic News 31 July 2002 issue 721
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Vivchar components: - Mathews
Looking for Igor Vivchar - Ackery
internalized the realization - Brokenspar
diamond saws. - Murff
Diamond Wheels - Andresen
FAI Timing at Nats - Morris
Out of this world on a Monster - Kranis
High Flyers!!! - The Alien
More Monsters - Coleman
Yamaha motor scooters? - Schroedter
Vivchar components:
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Does anyone know who currently sells Vivchar components in the U.S.?
I am looking for his simple, fixed-pitch, instant-start front-end.
Thanks,
Tony Mathews
Looking for Igor Vivchar
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Can anyone help, for the last month or two I have been trying to contact =
Igor Vivchar on
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but without success, any thoughts please ?.
thanks
David Ackery
internalized the realization
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I think what Aram wants is a late breakfast,
and a long lunch ( 11Am to 3Pm ) and the later
rounds, and fly-offs, flown late in the afternoon or evening,
...even the next day, ....thus allowing for coctails
and some Gravlax with dill sauce. Toasted rye crusts.
In the morning, ( I remember the CD's
Pete or Charlie Sotich, at Bong.)
the CD is at Mass till 9 AM.
Planning is frustrated.
Trees and forests are innocent.
It's the wind direction !
brokenspar
diamond saws.
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A brief acknowledgement of thanks to all those who responded to my query, I
have been inundated with a range of sources.
chris murphy
Diamond Wheels
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Roger,
Tim & Jim had quality suggestions for diamond wheels. As a depression kid
whose mom worked for a commodities firm in 1929, I have the tightwad answer.
Just ran across some 0.8" dia X .028 thick wheels at a Computer Swap meet.
These come in 5 or 10packs with 2 mandrels for about $1/wheel. Are
probably resin bonded rather than brazed so may require cooling and/or lower
speed on carbon but work well for other applications.
The sellers, some of whom speak English, have a number of other items of
interest to modellers. Diamond items include files and rotary burs. Also
tweezers, pliers, small scissors, magnifiers, reading glasses, dial
calipers, binoculars, etc. Besides computer and ham meets, they often cover
home, woodworking, gun, knife and other shows. Many of the items are
remarkably good and amazingly priced.
Keep up the good work,
H
FAI Timing at Nats
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I'm still looking for someone to time at the Nats in exchange for you timing
me in F1C on Tuesday. I have binoculars, compass and GPS in the event your
model really gets hooked and you need help. Give me a call at 614 451-2106 or
e-mail me.
Gil Morris
Out of this world on a Monster
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hello:
i must agree with mr. mosely....the price for free flight is out of
this world.
i'd like to see the 50's models come back with an eye drop fuel tank and a
pop up stab.....1/2a diesels and shreeking wasps and ok .049........power
scale.....and competion pogos and t birds,and strto streaks....and no time
limit..........those were the good old days.......dan kranis,sr.
High Flyers!!!
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Roger,
For the benefit of those who would enter a P---ing contest due to my =
misfortune. I lost the model, please let me suffer in peace. I see no =
need to change contest formats due to one lost model. (First one since =
1985 and that due to a timer failure).
BTW-I did make a second trip to attempt a rescue and was defeated by =
the loss of signal and the Canadian woods, swampland, and BUGS.
Would I fly at Base Borden again? Yes, in about a month. Of course, =
Leslie Farkas' Goulash is a really strong attraction.
Also got to be good friends with several of the members of the Base =
Borden Flying Club. Great bunch of guys, including one Fred Simpson, who =
attempted to stay on the GPS line through the swamps with me.
The Alien
More Monsters
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In response to the Moseley response to monster thrmals mid-day heat and
flying on the same fields for decades, where the heck is he flying. I have
lived in the Southern California area since 1940. I began flying free flight
as a young boy during World War II at the Rosecrans and Western Field( now
homes South East of the Northrup/Hawthorne Airfield not flyable since the
early 50's). Then at the 190th and Main field (now "Cal State Dominguez U"
not flyable since the early 60's) or the Sepulveda Flood Control Basin (now
golf courses, lakes and other Los Angeles recreation facilities, and not
flyable for any but the park flyer type Free Flight models since the 60's) I
used to test west of Sepulveda Blvd and LAX till the mid 50's when that site
was turned into what most know as LAX today.
We flew at a site called Fox Hills which is today homes and high rise
buildings about 5 miles north of LAX.
We began flying at Gardener Field(near Taft) in the late fifties but lost
that field to agricultural combines by 1970, when we moved to "Condor
Field" only to watch the "kitty Litter factory grow by a factor of greater
than 10, plus the addition of prisons and other developments which have
reduced that field to barely operable for all but testing modern AMA and FAI
models.
The Lake Elsinor site of the late 50's and 60's has been developed around so
that only non-power free flighter's use it as a test site only. I remember
flying at Kearny Mesa near San Diego which has given way to development
since the 60's or 70's. The South West Regional's in Arizona lost their
original site in the 70's. Yes I live in the wide open west which ain't that
wide open any more. Lost Hills is a great facility because it is relatively
flat and provides and unencumbered chase for 360 degrees on the compass, but
is the only field of many within 500 miles of my home which can still
support Free Flight as we know it today. We fly Oldtimer and Nostalgia
models that due to our present fuels , building materials, and ability to
machine better replacement parts and plugs for the old engines. has double
their performance. Then we have the modern stuff that many of the old sites
would not have contained at their peak size in the 50's. So I find that
rules to limit long mid day chases are good for two reasons. 1. the heath
and well being of the chaser and 2. it keeps us from raising the ire of
those whose property we damage while trespassing during the long mid day
chase.
Thermals,
Roger C.
Yamaha motor scooters?
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Martin and I are looking for a good chase bike. What has caught my eye =
is the new Yamaha Zuma motor scooter. I think it might work just fine. =
The tires are about the same size as were on the Honda Cubs. The engine =
is a bit small---49cc---but everything else is there. Has anyone out =
there had any experience with this type of scooter or know someone who =
has?
George Schroedter
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Roger Morrell
