CCD Cleaning success!

[agriffiths]

Just thought I'd post a quick note before heading off.

After ordering pecpads, eclipse fluid and an air rocket on Thursday (ordered from Birddog on Wednesday afternoon and recieved on Thursday morning: Thanks Birdy) I finally plucked up enough courage this afternoon to clean my filthy CCD. Initially I counted 58 dust bunnies
I closed all the office doors making sure the room was as dust free as possible and got to work.

After doing a quick test run on a CD I locked the mirror, put two drops of eclipse onto the pec pad and swiped away.... one, two. Hmm, I was fully expecting to have botched the whole thing but to my complete surprise the dust bunnies had reduced from 58 to 4. WOW that was easier than I thought!

I think maybe beginners luck may have entered the equation but hey, I'm happy!

[Matt. K]

Sweet success! It's a grand feeling.

[Onyx]

Beginners luck! :p

If you pre-panic and sort out all the potential issues and prepare yourself before going anywhere near the CCD, then you'll have a jolly good experience.

[agriffiths]

I agree, pre panic (planning) is definately the way to go.

Got some great photo's of a grass fire at the Laverton RAAF airbase on Sunday and hey presto... no PS clone stamp required for pesky little dust bunnnies.

[Killakoala]

I used to work there

Where's the pics ?????


Well done on your successful CCD cleaning

[agriffiths]

Wow, what did you do there?
I'm just uploading the pics now. Will post some soon.

[birddog114]

Hehehe! Killa and me push and pull the a/c in and out of its hangar everyday! tire kicker, I'm!

[agriffiths]

Here are the pics from Sunday.

http://www.pixspot.com/thumbnails.php?album=407

The mode that crashed was worth around $10,000. The nose wheel malfuntioned on landing and he was forced to attempts a wheels up landing on the grass next to the abandoned runway that they were using.

With a landing speed of around 70Km/h and a tank full of aviation kerosine the pilot did his best to get to the model as soon as he could. Unfortunately the ultra hot exhasust gases had created a small fire and the pilots frantic attempts to stomp it out with his feet were to no avail.

The model came out relatively unscathed since the pilot had landed it into the wind and as a result the fire had been fanned away from his $10,000 model. The downside was that this same wind then picked up and the organisers were forced to call the MFB (Melbourne Fire Brigade) as their hand held fire fighting equipment was just not up to the task.

It was interesting to note that this particular model was actually the cheapest turbine model flying that day with the more elaborate scale jets worth around $40,000. Imagine all the camera gear you could buy with that!

[Killakoala]

Great pics of some very large model aircraft. I would love to own one of those beauties. The fire's pretty cool too

I saw a video of a 1/8th scale B-52 bomber in England. Yes that's 1/8th scale. it had 8 small jet engines in it and had three blokes each with a remote control flying it. Amazing thing.

I used to work at RAAF base Laverton (Building L474) working in logistics. I gladly left there in 2002 and moved to Sydney. (Not that i like Sydney either but the weather is better)

[agriffiths]

That's a big B52! Did it look anything like this?



This baby was valued at US$100,000.... and that's not including the blood sweat and tears that went into building it! It unfurtunately crashed in quite a spectaluar fasion at an airshow last year. Just missed a nearby farm house... I've got that pic somehwere... ah here tis!

[Killakoala]

OUCH..... Yeah, it may well have been that one. Hard to tell really, they all look the same to me.

[kipper]

You'd so cry if that happened.

Can you get insurance for them against these kind of accidents? Also what about Public Liability Insurance incase you crash into somebody or somebodies property. Suprised terrorists haven't considered using these things to blow up buildings.

[sirhc55]

Kipper - when will you learn that the Taliban monitor this site and you have just given them the method by which they can attack Canberra

[BBJ]

agriffiths I loved these pictures as a modeller myself, well was shed full of planes but dont touch them nowdays. I knowthese planes a worth a mint and yes heartbreak when this happens and is always the first flight is the most nerv racking. Once everything is trimmed up you can breate a bit better or hope that you dont have a dead stick landing. I have a plane that is hot as hell very fast sports plane and every flight results in a deadstick landing as only has a small tank and you need to be on the ball when it does die as it is like a brick.
Cheers
John
BBJ