We run between 100-200 planes in stock at any one time and fast running out of shelving! The small rack at the back is 3m wide and 2.4m tall but looks like we'll be needing to make another rack immediately- Orders for Vampires, Extremes, Rotmilans, Vultures, Compact Wizards and various Dynamics are all on it's way and of course this little baby the first pre-production Schwing, with all the improvements from the prototypes incorporated!
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Saturday, 28 April 2012
After first half year
Well, it's been a little over 6 months since I took over Sloperacer and it's been a ride running along side the Fu-Fix business and retailing models and associated goodies. It was always the plan to grow Sloperacer and key to this was to buy stock so that we have models available for purchase or at least have models on order so that we reduce the lead time for customers waiting for their dream planes!
We run between 100-200 planes in stock at any one time and fast running out of shelving! The small rack at the back is 3m wide and 2.4m tall but looks like we'll be needing to make another rack immediately- Orders for Vampires, Extremes, Rotmilans, Vultures, Compact Wizards and various Dynamics are all on it's way and of course this little baby the first pre-production Schwing, with all the improvements from the prototypes incorporated!
We run between 100-200 planes in stock at any one time and fast running out of shelving! The small rack at the back is 3m wide and 2.4m tall but looks like we'll be needing to make another rack immediately- Orders for Vampires, Extremes, Rotmilans, Vultures, Compact Wizards and various Dynamics are all on it's way and of course this little baby the first pre-production Schwing, with all the improvements from the prototypes incorporated!
Thursday, 5 April 2012
Extreme F3F Summer Promotion
The Extreme F3F is our best ‘all rounder’ and an established high performance model worldwide. And the tag ‘all rounder’ doesn’t just refer to its flying performance although it is one of those planes that is nice to fly as a sports plane and a full blown competitive racer too. It is also ‘extremely’ well built!
It’s a 2.85m
racer manufactured by RTGmodel, who also makes the Rotmilan, Skorpions and
Needle 124 fuses. The quality is what ‘top Euro’ means, the fit, the finish and
the weight of the panels.
As to the
design and performance you only have to look at any F3F race event and you will
see Extremes being used. It’s designed by Norbet Habe and you won’t find any of
his 3m planes near this price range especially now Sloperacer has decided to
run a Summer promotion.
We normally
sell the Extreme F3F for £950 where most new top end Euro mouldies have jumped up in price and are now £1200-
£1600. Everywhere else in the EU the Extreme F3F is a £1000 plane. Not only
that, this is for the standard spec full carbon Extreme F3F with carbon
reinforced tows in the fuse. The Sloperacer spec is better and has the stiffer
full carbon boom and 2.4 friendly nose hatch area.
We have an order being produced ready approximately
for June delivery and taking pre orders for £899 + post and packing. This deal
includes a set of Fu-Fix bearing kits (worth £24.95) and a wiring loom with
genuine MPX plugs (worth £27.50). The Extreme comes with ballast tube, tow hook,
pushrod snakes and moulded radio tray installed! It also comes with 10 slugs of
20mm diameter x 37mm long ballast! (Which we would normally sell
at £35).
So here’s
an opportunity to get a top euro 3m for not that much more than the cost of a
far eastern produced 3m and when you consider what is included and how much is
done for you, there really isn’t too much in it with this offer. Get your order in now for Summer delivery!
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Something pretty for beginners
At Sloperacer, we're always asked for beginners planes and we really haven't catered for them, which is something I feel we should address. How else are we going to ensure new folk coming to our sport if we just cater for experienced fliers?! Now we can, to a certain extent. Here's a model that we came across which is nicely up to the job, not perfect for absolute beginners but a big E soarer is how I learnt and I flew that thing to death! These will last a bit longer and they are certainly prettier! Its made of EPO foam a bit like the Easy Glider and other stuff made by Multiplex, which as most know is tough. We have 2 models coming an ASK 23 and this one below, the ASK28. It comes servo'd up with motor and ESC! Both are a decent 2.3m size and available shortly at £164.99, ready to fly, just needing lipos and Rx!
FMS ASW 28 |
Monday, 2 April 2012
DS Style Horns
Let’s
explode a few myths about control horns on wings: If you want the strongest and
best wearing then look at the horns used on DS planes. They don’t use brass or
aluminium metal ‘rod’ horns, why, because they have very little gluing area and
can be pull out in flight (with sufficient force)! They all use composite horns
with a triangular shape with a big foot for lots of gluing area. With a syringe
you can pump in lots of epoxy inside the surrounding area of the flap or
aileron skin and that in itself makes a huge difference when attaching horns.
DS style
horns aren’t just for DS models of course, standard Opus horns, well, could be improved! and
some of these types of planes like Paces don’t come with horns at all!
You would
imagine then carbon horns would be the best, they are not. Carbon wears very
quickly in the clevis hole, you’ll find very quickly the hole enlarges and you
have play and a sloppy surface.
Real G10
horns are the best, not the cheaper type of fibreglass board that splits and
breaks easily you’ll find used in control horns from some far eastern
manufacturers. The proper stuff is awful to CNC as it wears milling tools out
so quickly but that means they are good and tough for horns! Of course they
will wear (but a drop of cyano will cure) and they can break but I doubt you
will ever pull them out in flight!
I’ve been
using them for a while in high load situations, like DS planes or front side
heavy wind stuff. Here we don’t care about hidden linkages under the skin. You
want decent gearing which means relatively large horns and servo arms that will
protrude from the skin surfaces. However, you don’t need ridiculously outsized
horns and arms like the ones we were finding in DS planes a few years ago. The
bigger the arm the less torque you’ll see from your servo and 10mm-15mm arms
seem to be the optimum for most applications for these types of planes.
You can
make and design your own with a bit of time but to save you the effort we have
2 designs horns that I’ve found will cover most situations. One is 10.5mm tall
and ‘Raked’ 1mm in front of the
hinge line and the other 16.5mm tall with the hole ‘In line’ with the hinge line. You can of course trim them to
reduce horn height for that special application (or just to keep under the horn
shrouds!). It’s milled from 1.6mm G10 and perfect thickness for standard M2,
M2.5 or M3 clevises (any wider would spread the clevis and the pin will not
engage fully on the opposite retaining hole).
They are
available now in pairs of Raked or In line at £3.50 include 1st
class post (and packing) in UK or + airmail letter for overseas.