Easy foam plane fix

The best thing about foam plane is no matter how you bad you dent, bent or distort the whole body parts you can always get a fast perfect fix by dipping the affected part of the foam into more than 100 degrees of boiling hot water.  In this case i had my glider wing crashed into other r/c plane from opposite direction and plumetted into the soil.  The wing badly bent on the root junction of the wing spar.

To fix it just wrap a slabs of thick cotton clothes around the affected damaged foam. Then pour a hot boiling water (probably beyond 100 degree) above the clothes so that the hot water soaked inside temporarily hold the tempreature and heats up the contacted foam surface.  The hot water will then get absorbed into the plane's damaged bead foam which then use heat to expand the foam back to its original uncompress form slowly.  When pouring the hot water do it with caution, watch out not to pour excessive amount of hot water tempreature which causes the foam to swollen further and create bubly surface or blister.  Do it slowly and you may need manually straighten the bend wing or surface if it was badly bend from the start because when the foam is in hot condition you can easily reshape back the parts to original state.   I did it dozen of time on my second hand plane i bought from my friends and it always works 100%  keeping the models foam surface back like into smooth surface.  So far it works on my EPP, EPO and normal foam used on planes models.  Try it out.  Cheers.

Bike in good hands

When it comes to professional bike maintenance and bike damage recovery theres only one man i look up to...its Mr. Syariff my very very old best mountain biking buddies whom weve been together riding for 15 years. All i can say his bike maintenance and fixing skills is second to none and can fix a dead bicycle out of nothing with minimal tools and resources. When he get it done its 100% the bike will be very much in fresh new condition and best top notch performance. It took him only a day to completely fix every corner of the bike to perfection which left me awe in amazement when i tried it late at night for a test drive. Wow! perform far better than a new bike! kudos! I'm proud to be his buddy.

Effort is important: "Old man and a hammer"

I receive the email from our cycling buddies which represent a good example about ones experiences, below quotes:

> A giant ship engine failed. The ship's owners tried one expert after
> another, but none of them could figure but how to fix the
>
engine.
>
> Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing
ships since
> he was a
> young. He carried a large bag of tools
with him, and when he
> arrived, he
> immediately went to work. He
inspected the engine very
> carefully, top to
> bottom.
>
> Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping
>
he would know
> what to do. After looking things over, the old man
reached into
> his bag and
> pulled out a small hammer. He gently
tapped something.
> Instantly, the engine
> lurched into life. He
carefully put his hammer away. The engine
> was fixed!
>
>
A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for
> ten
thousand
> dollars.
>
> "What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He
hardly did anything!"
>
> So they wrote the old man a note saying,
"Please send us an
> itemized bill."
>
> The man sent a
bill that read:
>
> Tapping with a hammer...... ......... ........
$ 2.00
> Knowing where to tap.......... ......... ...... $ 9, 998.00
>
> Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort makes
> all the
> difference!

Bike needs medic help

My Saturday was spoiled or you can say interrupted by a compulsory schedule: bike fix. Well i have to since the last race did terrible things to my bike which make me wonder having being in top ten placing worth winning against the destruction of my bike. Got me a box of spare parts and replacement on worn out parts recently. Well it took me almost 1 day to scrub frozen grease gunk and 5 hours of re-building the bike to normal function. At then end of the day got me greased all round my body and smells like rough neck oil rig crew. My bike have ressurrected!

Whewww!!! my new hp fixed.

Yes!! My new handphone W200i fix immediately after send over in the evening it looks like they do some PC hookup to clear something on firmware upgrade or what so every on my phone. But still the range having broken on first day still in fire. I won't trust that shop anymore and wouldn't walk there again for their services, it will be my last purchase on their shop. But glad my Sony Ericsson back a live and well.

Cure for dead radio range (KYOSHO MINI-Z- MR01)

Recently my MR01 have problem wirh radio range, after drive about 5ft distance the mini-z gone crazy driving on its own, twitching, accelerate by its own, non-responsive and have its mind to wonder around the ground. Its the same effect when you remove the crystal on the receiver PCB. If you look around the internet most people would sent it for warranty or just by new ones. But now worry no more.!!

Yesterday i discovered KYOSHO sweet spot for reviving dead range for MR01 board after run some point to point touching on the soldered location point on PCB board using a long copper antenna to disperse random sign of RX signal. If you have a dead radio range less that 5 feet then this is the fix for you. By default the antenna soldered on circuit lane labelled "L3" just after the resistor placement. Look at the PCB board you'll notice beside lane "L3" there's "L2" . Note that "L2" does have empty cut off empty space usually reseverve for future resistor placement just the opossite side of "L3" resistor. If you have range problem remove your antenna wire from L3 and solder on to the 2nd solder point of "L2". Look at the diagram/schematics below.

(lane "L3") o----------o [resistor] o-------------o[antenna wire]
(lane "L2")(1) o-------o (2) [empty resistor spacing] (3) o--------

**solder your antenna wire at (2)

After that your MR01 PCB board will back alive with much better and far radio range, completely stable!

Opps! wheel glitches on Open-GL mode

Oppss, looks like i didn's see this one coming, due to incompatibe spec....there's a glitch detected on some wheelsets attached to these models when runing on various version of 4x4 evo2 program on Open-GL graphic setting:

-(XL-RACING) MAXXIMUS CD 16.6 XL-SE ATX
-(NO LIMIT) ZEN MAXXIMUS CD 17.2 XL-HT

Thanks to the helpful guys at Vales.com an over spec high poly wheels made glitches by making it invisible inside the game on Open-GL mode. Recomended i have to break it to smaller/sectional parts and compile again into more compatible models for 4x4evo 2. For those who downloaded these two off-roader above you might need to re-download again a fix version just to be safe for compatibility reasons. Thanks.

Limited edition Pink PSP!

Here i am fixing my friend PSP, its in pink..not ordinary until you open up the menu and you can see there an extra feature: "1 SEG TV!" A digital TV option where you can add add-on hardware on top to enable 1SEG TV option. To bad only few country like Japan and Europe have those Digital broadcasting channel available. Anyways here i am fixing up this semi 'bricked' PSP. I ended up slept at 2.00pm without any success reviving it even with PANDORA BATTERY pre-installed. The original user flashed firmware up to fw 3.99 M33 without install the base firmware first. Since i don't have enought resources to fix it so i recommend them to send to authorised game shop to get it fix. I had enough headache for today.