Imafanz
New Heliman
Location: New zealand
My Posts This: Topic Forum | Time for a comment from me.Hi everyone, I'm Philip Souter of Imafanz.Ltd. There are many things that are being said here, and in other threads, that without a little thought can be considered true yet if approached with a little logic can be shown otherwise. I'm not writing this to knock anyone, just so those people may look at things from a different perspective.
First I'll cover the cost of the test stand in US dollars. The rotator is not made with a lazy suzan rotating bearing. It is a purpose built super heavy bearing made by an engineering company in Christchurch. Not cheap. The tread plate on top is a specialized tread plate and highly polished, not cheap. Take into account the time to make one which is a normal part of costing a product, the glue, screws, bolts, nuts, paint and everything else overall and you start to understand the cost involved. I then have to make a slight profit to make it viable to produce and to make a living. The biggest part of the price though with the price in USD INCLUDES freight from New Zealand to the USA - not cheap.
Can you make one for $20USD? probably. Could you make one the same as the one I'm selling for $20USD, no. Could you make a living from making one for $20USD, no.
Regarding safety, can it be dangerous? The stand itself, no. The way it is operated, yes. I can't control that. It's up to the common sense of the operator. Put a new driver into a vehicle, can it be dangerous, the vehicle itself no, the way it is operated, yes. It's up to the common sense and knowledge of the operator.
Regarding ground effect, resonance, flying apart, screws coming loose
etc etc. If everything is done properly and the testing is conducted with common sense there is very little risk. Is there some risk, yes but then just flying a RC helicopter involves some risk. Common sense must prevail. If there is none, anything right up to the worst possible scenario is possible.
Getting newbies into trouble? If they are that way inclined it will happen one way or another with or without my test stand. I'm sure there have been many newbies seriously hurt by simply trying to fly a RC heli for the first time, should RC helicopters be removed from the market because of this? Once again, common sense must prevail.
Regarding NZ_Nitro. I don't know the man but in research he seems to be quite good, and has a history of, causing some disturbance amongst the heli community in New Zealand and on all these forum sites. This all started when he placed some silly comments on an auction I ran in New Zealand. I approached the site management who run the site regarding this and deemed the comments inappropriate as I did. They dealt with this and on advice from that site I banned NZ_Nitro from my auctions. He then started this campaign of starting threads all over the place for what I can only assume is an attempt to get back at me for that action. He has started all these threads and then emailed me each time saying someone else has started them and to go and see how I'm getting trashed. He has never approached me directly and asked sensible questions or even asked questions on these threads, simply made statements which if researched properly can be proven to be false and without thought. What is disturbing is that so many others buy into, and can't see past his actions, to the point where such threads become hate threads instead of dealing with the topic with sensible discussion. I suppose that's just the way things are sometimes. It's very sad to see it happen and in my mind destroys the good things involved with this great hobby.
Regarding my business, yes, those that make comments it's 'A wet dream' 'It'll never work' 'I'm an idiot' 'waste of time' etc etc as far as those people are concerned it won't and is the very reason many things don't turn into reality. Is the concept really that bad and horrible that it deserves to be destroyed before it even gets started? If it was in place now and was being supported and encouraged what would your feelings be about it then?
Cheers
Phil, Imafanz |
I need to learn more? hmm How does a stand which is used to setup and assemble clean etc mean a person needs to learn more? explain that one to me please. Now if your talking about this lazy susan thing this guy built that is a different discussion but a stand is a complete different thing from his item.
due to the threads I have started, perhaps a little uncalled for?
