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Safety is YOUR Job!!
Ocean County Modelers, Inc.
By-Lines & Fly-Lines
P.O. Box 569, Lakehurst, NJ 08733-0569 February 2013
See, Cold, page 6
Cold Weather Operations
I t’s that time of year again when the tem-
peratures drop to obscene levels and that
very nasty four letter word, SNOW, may
make its appearance.
A few modelers are insane enough to fly
during cold weather. This can be fun if you
follow a few simple rules or suggestions.
Dress warmly. When the temperature is
low, even the slightest breeze can make it feel
a lot colder. Wear a coat with a nylon shell, a
hat, warm waterproof shoes that will keep
your feet dry and lightweight gloves. A thin
pair of gloves will help keep the hands warm
without impairing your feel of the transmitter
too much. One of the solid or liquid fuel
pocket warmers helps a lot.
It is somewhere between very difficult and
impossible to get model fuel to vaporize in-
side a cold engine. The prime remains a liq-
uid and just lies in the bottom of the crank-
case. Use a few drops of lighter fluid for
prime instead. This stuff will vaporize much
more easily than fuel and will get the engine
running for a few seconds while it warms up
enough to run on regular fuel.
Use an electric starter or chicken stick. If
you are using bare fingers to flip the propeller
and it kicks back, it hurts a whole lot more in
cold weather. The electric starter will usually
turn the engine over fast enough to vaporize
even regular fuel.
If you come out to the field without either
lighter fluid or an electric starter, remove the
glow plug and squirt several drops of fuel di-
rectly into the cylinder hole. This may very
well flood the engine, but flipping it several
times, (with a chicken stick, remember) will
usually spit out enough fuel so that it can
start.
Cold air is much denser than warm air, so
your summertime mixture setting will proba-
bly be too lean. You may need to turn the
needle valve out 1/8th to ¼ turn.
Batteries will not store as much electricity
when they are cold as when warm. If you
have marginal batteries in warm weather,
don’t use them for cold weather flying. Get
some new ones. Flying with marginal bat-
teries in warm weather is stupid; it is absolute
suicide in cold weather.
If you use castor oil in your fuel, be pre-
pared for a real gooey mess to clean off the
by Barwin Evelsizer
Use skis or floats—wheels just don’t cut it in the snow
PRESIDENT
Louis Capurso
201-376-3512 [email protected]
VICE PRESIDENT
Edward Hollema
201-406-5077 [email protected]
TREASURER
Joseph Acquisto
732-614-2737 [email protected]
CORRESPONDING
SECRETARY
Jam Rabii
732-966-1467 [email protected]
RECORDING SECRETARY
Thomas Moore
732-644-8601 [email protected]
SAFETY OFFICER
Dan Ditursi
732-818-1692 [email protected]
NEWSLETTER EDITOR
Sue Fevola 732-477-1761
PROPERTY MANAGER
Jam Rabii
732-657-6760 [email protected]
CLOTHING APPAREL
Paul Meier
732-859-3002 [email protected]
WEBSITE ADMINISTRATORS
Jacob Hoehler
732-605-1131 [email protected]
Asst. Salvatore Piu 732-349-4361
Asst. Steve Lew 732-608-9938
Ocean County Modelers Inc. Page 2
Club Officers UPCOMING EVENTS
February 17th—Annual Auction Jersey Coast Sport Fliers will be holding their
annual Auction at Croydon Hall, 900 Leonardville
Road, Leonardo, N.J. 07737. This event had
been postponed from November.
Doors open at 8:30am for sellers. Auction begins
at 10:00am.
Check for more info at: www.jcsportfliers.org
February 10th—Annual Swap Meet Atoms RCers will hold this event at the Hills-
borough Municipal Complex, 379 South Branch
Rd, Hillsborough, NJ 08844.
Seller setup: 8:00am. Cost per table $10.00
Public: 9:00am—3:00pm . Admission: $5.00
For additional info: www.atomsrcers.com
For table reservations, contact: Barry Wilbur
phone 908-526-7361
e-mail: [email protected]
February 22nd-24th—WRAM Show Westchester Radio Aero Modelers will hold their
45th annual show at the Meadowlands Expo Cen-
ter in Secaucus, NJ.
Fri-Sat hours: 10:00am-5:00pm
Sun hours: 10:00am-4:00pm
Adult admission—$12.00 per day
Children 6-11—$5.00 per day
Under 6—Free
Advanced group tickets are $10.00 each adult
ticket for purchases of 10 or more tickets. Ad-
vanced tickets may be purchased before February
15th by contacting the Show Manager, Bob Krull
by e-mail: [email protected]
See back page for additional events coming up.
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Minutes of OCM
Meeting on
January 23, 2013
T he meeting was opened by President Louis Capurso at 7:00 pm with the Pledge of Alle-
giance. There were approximately 33 members present.
Joseph Acquisto read the treasurer’s report. Carl Parducci made a motion to accept the report
and Tony Riccio seconded it.
FIELD REPORT
The field has been rolled and looks good. The ground is now frozen so the field will be
rolled again in the spring.
OLD BUSINESS
The 2012 Holiday party was a great success. The cost of the party was $2,700.00. Louis
Capurso noted that we took in $7,800.00 this past year. The cost of the party was about 33% of
that amount.
Jersey Coast RC club field is now open to their members, so they will no longer need to use
our area.
NEW BUSINESS
We will begin work on building two new assembly tables when the weather improves. These
are the large tables near the fence to assemble your plane.
Louis Capurso wants to remove the paving block and fill in with dirt and seed. A suggestion
was made to place some of the blocks in front of the starting stands. This will be looked into.
Horace Hagen reported that when he went onto the club’s web site, he found his name high-
lighted in blue; which usually means a link to something. When he clicked on his name it con-
nected with the Police Department. He closed it and tried again but nothing happened the sec-
ond time. If anyone else should see something like this, do not click on it. Contact one of the
OCM Web advisers listed in the newsletter.
MODEL OF THE MONTH
Hob Davis showed his B-17 with a wingspan of 63” and weighing five pounds. It has four
3130 motors and four 25amp ESC. It has nine servos and two 2200 35Lipo batteries.
Ken Jecas displayed a Katana SR electric Aerobatic. It has a 4250 710KV motor and a
2.4ghz Futaba radio.
Vince Scatuccio brought in his P-40 Nitro plane with a brushless KV500 motor and a 2.4ghz
Spektrum radio. It has a retractable landing gear and a bomb release.
See Minutes, page 4
Ocean County Modelers Inc. Page 4
Minutes, from page 3
Bill Martin showed his SU-
26 Super Tigre with a 370
motor and a 2.4ghz radio.
Bill scratch-built it from
Model Airplane News plans.
The meeting was adjourned
at 8:10 pm.
Submitted by Tom Moore,
Recording Secretary
Welcome to our new member
Stan Sinicki
For Sale
AT6 Electric
New in box, $150.
Midget Mustang 60 mtr
$195. with motor
Decathalon g23
$395 with motor Super Sportster
120 size
$250. with motor
Shoestring 60 mtr
$180. with motor
Proctor antique
biplane
$175, no motor
These pictures do not show the actual planes. They
are stock pictures shown simply to give you an idea
what the plane looks like.
Contact: John Eskow by e-mail or phone
e-mail: [email protected]
phone: 908-489-7694
OCM
Apparel
The orders are in! Paul Meier will have eve-
rything at the February
meeting. You can pick up
your apparel at the meeting.
Ocean County Modelers Inc. Page 5
Hob Davis shows his B-17 H909.
It has a 63” wingspan, four 3130 motors,
three 25amp ESC, 9 servos
and two 2200 35 Lipo batteries.
Bill Martin shows his SU-26 Super Tigre,
with a 370 motor and a 2.4 ghz radio.
This is a scratch-built
from Model Airplane News plans.
Ken Jecas shows his Katana Sr. electric aero-
batic which has a 4250 710KV motor
and a 2.4 ghz Futaba radio.
Ocean County Modelers Inc. Page 6
Safety Contact
Dan Ditursi Safety Officer
Chief Flight Instructor
732-818-1692
MORE—
Vince Scatuccio shows his P-40 Nitro plane
with a KV500 brushless motor
and a 2.4 ghz Spektrum radio.
It has a retractable landing gear
and a bomb release. Cold, from page 1
airplane after you are done flying. Synthetic fuel stays thin
and cleans off much easier.
Bring along a snow shovel to dig your car out of the snow.
Speaking of snow, if there is more than a dusting of this
nasty stuff on the ground, you will have to trade in the wheels
for either skis or floats. Wheels just don’t cut it in several
inches of snow.
Floats work great on the snow, but you probably should
give the rudder some added throw. Without a steerable
wheel, turning on the ground is very slow, especially if there
is much of a wind.
Bring a thermos of hot chocolate or hot coffee to warm
your belly.
A hot glow plug battery is a necessity too. It if will just
barely light a plug indoors, it is totally useless outside when it
is cold.
Some pilots use “bags” made out of quilted nylon to put
their transmitters in, (and hands) to keep things warmer.
They do provide a certain amount of additional comfort, but
their weight also presses down on your thumbs on the sticks
and creates some physical interference. [reprinted with per-
mission, AMA Insider, Jan 2009]
2013
Membership
T his will be your last
OCMRC newsletter
if you have not paid your
2013 dues.
Still want to renew?
Send a check for $85.
($60. dues, plus $25. ad-
ministrative fee), to:
Joseph Acquisto
1601 Cabot Drive
Whiting, NJ 08759
Page 7 Ocean County Modelers Inc.
JACKSON HOBBY SHOP
2275 W. COUNTY LINE RD (RT 526), JACKSON
(IN BENNETTS MILL PLAZA)
732-364-3334 Credit cards accepted Established 1969
JACKSON HOBBY SHOP
Full Line Hobby Shop
The Parts & Service Specialists
STORE HOURS
Tuesday thru Thursday: 10am-6pm
Friday: 10am - 7pm
Saturday: 10am - 5pm
Sunday & Monday - Closed
L.G.B. “G” GAUGE
INDOOR—OUTDOOR
TRAINS
We carry Lionel trains “for the kid in you”
MANY NEW ITEMS COMING IN DAILY!
Show your OCM
club card for 10%
discount.
(See store personnel
for details.)
Ocean County Modelers Inc. P.O. Box 569 Lakehurst, NJ 08733-0569
Next OCM meeting
Wednesday
February27th
7:00pm
Manchester
Municipal Building
April 6th—Swap Meet & Indoor Electric Fun Fly Sponsored by Hanover Radio Control Flying Club
Mechanicsville, Virginia
Fairmount Christian Church, 6502 Creighton Road
Swap Meet opens at 8:00am—Cost $5.00
Indoor Fun Fly from 1:00-4:00pm—Cost $10.00
AMA required
E-mail for additional info: [email protected]
Website: www.hanoverrc.org
March 9th—Annual Flea Market Central Penn Aeromodelers Association will hold
the 33rd Annual Radio Control Flea Market.
Lebanon Fairgrounds
80 Rocherty Rd, Lebanon, PA 17042
Hours: 8:30am—3:00pm Cost: $8.00
For additional info: www.cpaa.us