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So I’m out of town and for the second time my Kenmore fridge breaks. Not a huge break just the fan that keeps the fridge from performing a nuclear meltdown. Three months ago I had them send a repair man out to fix the thing because it smelled like it was going to melt, and 40 minutes later I’m taking out a second mortages to pay the dude. Well the same part went out again (fan) and I decided I just order it and put the thing in. I end up being out of town when the part gets in but I figure easy deal, my two boys can just install the thing, it’s only a couple bolts. After a few phone calls, some pictures sent via cell phone it become evident that Sears in all their wisdom has most likely sent me the wrong part. No, I actually used the right model number I had to check that one 3 times to be sure. So while I’m eating dinner at a business get together I see this come in my mail on my iphone (no MMS here but that is another rant).

This just goes to show you that you are never to young to do things that work. This is pretty freaking impressive if you ask me.

Picture1: The Computer Fan

Production Beings to Take place

Next Up we see that fan is now wired into a powersupply

Next is the first attempt to anchor the fan in where it will cool the coils

And then we see success on round 2.  the fridge will stay cool until I can take a look at it and figure out what the heck Sears sent me.

I have to say that this work is pretty amazing to me. It’s no wonder the Bible tells us to never doubt the ability of our young.

So about 20 years back I built this nice little plane. It’s a Great Plane Fun One and it had about 100 or so flights on it.

It had been sitting on the shelf until the “boys” and I decided to get it flying again. We went down and picked up a radio, servos, and a new tank. We cleaned up the engine and got the plane running great and took it out and flew it a couple of rounds. The plane flew great and after a few runs we took it home. Several weeks went buy and we again loaded up the plane to take it out this last Saturday to fly with the guys in our local club. We also took out a new Edge 540 and the Avistar Trainer. After a few flights with the trainer we decided that it was time to fire up the white bird! We did, and off to the sky it went like something being propelled from tropical storm IKE. The plane ascended into the heavens when I noticed that it was taking a large amount of forward stick to keep it level. For anyone who doesn’t fly, if your pushing the stick forward it’s not good and it means the plane is not flying as it should. Generally I would chalk this up for trip, so I started to trim the plane with some down trim. After I maxed out the forward trim and the plane was still climbing I realized something was very very wrong and just as I went to pull back the throttle to turn the plane around to land, the wing seperated from the fuselage. As you can imagine it was a pretty amazing sight. One part butterfly (the wing) one part missle(the fuselage). Without much time to think I could only hope that the new decending missle would not hit anyone or any vehicle on the ground. It didn’t (thank goodness) but it did end up like this picture after a farily hard impact.

The plane has been out of production for about 18 years so there is really no chance to rebuild it even while the wing is in perfect shape. This just goes to show you that you can’t trust thoes 20 year old CA glue joins. The bad thing with this incident is that is was 100% preventable. Had we taken time to just throw down some 5min epoxy we would have saved the plane from distaster. Like the pro and novices alike always say. “It’s never if your gonna crash it’s when!”

The parts counter in the Hanger
Originally uploaded by kellyho

I thought it might be fun to showcase the small set of parts I’ve started to collect. This saves me a few trips to the hobby store and it seems like every time I go I try and add more parts to my bag but you never seem to get it all. Notice the nice new pitts there….

The Hanger all cleaned up
Originally uploaded by kellyho

Tonight the boys and I took a strong stand to clean up the hanger before we finish up the new planes. We are working on a Seagull Edge 540 .46 ARF seen on the table in the pictures and we have an e-flight Extra 260 with a 480 outrunner we’ll be building next. The great thing about this work area is that everything you could possibly want is within the roller chair reach. I have a complete wall of pegboard and pins that hold parts as if it were a hobby shop. Wish I had more but then again doesn’t everyone.

Alright! so this was sent from my iPhone. Pretty nice how this works and way easy to get pictures uploaded to my blog.. I think this shall come in handy for sure.

A nice ride in the desert