Recent content by MikeReed

Gad fricken zooks man..... Soooo bummed right now. RIP Jim.

Hello Jim, I can't determine from the picture but what Phenolic are you using? I don't use a lot of it but assume its the fiberglass based stuff? I've only used the brownish paper based stuff and its not near as fun to machine as I thought it would be. Mike

Once you figure out the description codes you should never have to worry about getting the wrong ones unless they put the wrong ones in the box. Here's a page I like to use for quick reference - Insert Designation Chart - provides ANSI and ISO designation code definitions for carbide insert...

I've actually been getting a lot of my tooling from Amazon from Titan and Monster tool. Both Carbide and HSS. Especially for custom sizes like reamers. They sell both on eBay and Amazon but I always check Amazon first as they tend to be cheaper there.

Thanks for all the info guys. Its kinda what I expected. So a fun only project it will be. The Blazer Sport 40 looks good and the price seems right. Seems like I live in a dry spot for clubs. Its miles to any I've seen so far. I'd either have to drive all the way down to Houston or San Antonio...

Hello Guys and Gals, I haven't raced a boat since the late 80's down in Tucson. Even then it wasn't serious but I'm getting the itch again and have been looking around. Is NAMBA Division 1 Sport 40 still a thing? I mean, I see it in the rule book but does anyone still bother? I've read through...

Brad, Thanks for the info. I bought a few pieces Ti and was playing around with it. I'd made some aluminum fuel tank assemblies and thought it would be neat to try one in Ti since I had the pieces. I'm still learning this stuff. I found best cuts at about 700rpm at .008"doc with those generic...

Jim Thanks for the info. I do have one question though. In the above you talked about holding roller bearing assemblies but then said it couldn't be done without distorting the bushing. Did you mean without distorting the bearing? Is the distortion a result of running the engine, or when fitting...

Yeah there's a whole other set of rules for commercial transactions that I'm not privy to, or really care about and if you're not capable to do the conversions yourself that is a good way to go. I had some XPS modules I used to convert my Airtronics Stylus transmitters when XPS first came out...

LOL... Even if you did, you'd have to have some seriously bad karma to have anyone come knocking on your door. Speaking of Ace Micro-Pros in my last post, I just saw this - https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?3449113-Ace-Micropro-8000-single-stick-with-Spektrum-module I see it all...

Awww man... I'm not doing that again. Here, you look it up - https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text its in there somewhere. As for your experience with shops I have no idea what you were asking them to do. From what I understand of the rules, you cannot sell modified transmitters (or modify for...

Hello Jim, I'm interested. What about 7068 Aluminum? Its supposed to be just as strong as Titanium without the BS of machining Titanium (or its thermal properties). EDIT: I found this on Wikipedia (yeah I know for whatever its worth but....) "Primarily developed for ordnance applications...

Hahaha, yeah, I've got brain lock right now. I'm mostly a plane flyer these days and the FAA is in the process of stealing the entire airspace to turn over to commercial special interest groups using the of morons with drones as justification and lumping us in with them.

What you mean??? People did it all the time. You can narrow the bandpass but you cant widen it and shoot people down. Remember the big frequency change in the 90's. People were narrow banding existing RF boards as well as changing frequencies. I don't know what part of "You can modify up to five...

Sold to Mr. Geraghty. Thanks!