The XCopter Quad build - Week five - and other stuff!

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XCopter Micro Quad Build Week five

Sorry about the lateness of posting again, but I had a very busy weekend. I had both my son's fifth birthday along with his mothers (Carmel of Solomon Sewing) on Sunday, but more about that later.

In week five I received two more outrunners from Hobby King and the first lot of props, coming in at $32.49 to my door, bringing the average up to $28.33. As can be seen by the picture, the prop adapter is too big for these props. The prop hubs are about the same size as the shaft, so when I show the three bladed props I am getting in week seven, you will agree that they will look good.
Thought I'd share a video from Flite Test on setting up a multi rotor including balancing. In week three I mentioned a prop balancer that I needed to order as many have said vibrations are bad for the controller board. In this clip, they discuss that even balancing the motors is important, and since I am using prop adapters, this may become important. I will be showing more on balancing when the balancer turns up in week nine.

Maxx's Cooking Stuff

Now for something completely different. I mentioned that I was busy this week end, well Sunday was made up of a lot of cooking. I cooked lunch which was home made hamburgers, followed by a Banana chocolate cake (with over 300gm of dark chocolate). Dinner included one of my special dinners of Spinach Lasagne followed with bread and butter custard pudding.
While preparing the meal, Carmel asked me if there is any other copy of the Spinach recipe, i.e. If the house burnt down, would there be a copy somewhere? The answer is no. I have it sourced from a book called "Pasta Cooking". Since there is a lot of Pasta cook books, it would be difficult to narrow down, so here is the recipe for prosperity, and the future internet archaeologists to find hundreds of years from now.
I would rate this as "Dishes high". It does have a high level of dishes and the lasagne dish will most likely require some scrubbing, so rinse as early as you can.
Prep time is around 20minutes
Cooking time, 30 minutes with oven at 200 ̊C.
Serves four.

Ingredients;

Lasagne sheets

Spinach sauce

90gm Butter
90gm Plain flour
140ml Milk
450gm (or more) Spinach
Nutmeg
Salt and Pepper.

Mornay Sauce

30gm Butter
30gm Plain Flour
250ml Milk
90gm Parmesan Cheese, grated
1 tsp French Mustard

Method Spinach Sauce
Melt butter in sauce pan and stir in flour.
Remove from heat and slowly add milk.
Heat until thick then add Spinach.
Season with nutmeg, salt and pepper.
Method Mornay Sauce
Similar to the spinach sauce, but add only 60gm parmesan cheese at the end.
Line lasagne dish with lasagne sheets. Add half the Spinach Sauce. Add another layer of lasagne sheets followed with the rest of the spinach sauce. Top with lasagne sheets and the mornay sauce with the remaining parmesan cheese sprinkled on top. Bake in oven at 200 ̊C for 30 minutes or until browned on top.

Serve with a warm bean mix in winter, and a salad in summer. This dish goes well with almost any wine, but I would watch the sweeter ones. The cheesy taste means that even a good ale (Such as a Coopers DIY English Bitter) goes well with this.

So, what other hobbies do you have that does not include RC aero modelling?

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