Home Improvement Tool and Toy Reviews

Well I have an update to the issues that my wife and I have been having with our LG C2000 phones (you can see my original post on this here - Socking it to Cingular and LG).

Last night I tried having a conversation with the second replacement C2000 phone that I had gotten from Cingular. It was terrible. This phone was the worst out of all 3. After getting off the phone I called up Cingular again.

I got a girl in their call center in Phoenix, AZ who wanted to “troubleshoot” the phone. This pissed me off since neither of the two previous people I had worked with wanted to “troubleshoot” anything. I proceeded to ask for a supervisor.

Once I had the supervisor on the line I proceeded to explain to her that this was the second replacement that both my wife and I had received in a week and that these phones where worse then our original. I told here that not only had they not fixed the original problem that I was having (not being able to hear people on the phone) that they were actually adding issues (fading in and out and static).

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Well the weather was finally good enough for me to go out and fly this morning before work. This is the first flight that I have had since I applied my battery box fix for the Super Cub.

The fix works awesome!

Not only was it cheap, it was simple. I was able to fly until my battery ran out and even crashed it into my fence while trying to land and broke my propeller. With all of that the straps around the fuselage help up. The only thing that I noticed was that the wire that I used is now digging into the Styrofoam a little now. What I am going to do to make sure that it does not cut all the way into the Styrofoam is find a couple of pieces of plastic to put on the corners.

I will post pics when I put the plastic strips on.

Technorati: HobbyZone Super Cub, RC Airplane, Flying, Hobbies

I am pissed off.

I got an LG C2000 cell phone when I signed up with Cingular last June and have to say that the phone is a piece of crap.

The biggest reason why it sucks is that you can barely hear the person on the other end of the phone. The other thing is the camera on it is practically useless due to the fact that it cannot take a decent picture and the fact that the phone only has enough memory to hold about 10 pictures max.

Why don’t I get another one?

I did and it sucks just as much as the first one. You still cannot hear any better on it then the one that I turned in under warranty. Also, the camera still takes awful pictures.

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Well, another cold front is here in Round Rock. Fortunately this time there isn’t any rain to go along with it to cause ice and/or snow. It is cold enough though that if it did rain that we would definitely have those things.

Over the next couple of days it is only going to get colder. Friday morning we are supposed to have a “Hard Freeze” which means that is pipe bursting weather. I will setting the outside faucets to drip just to make sure that we don’t have any surprises.

I thought that I would share my quick fix for my battery box that had come out of my Super Cub on my last crash.

The HobbyZone Super Cub is notorious for having the battery box ripped out of it because the landing gear are attached to it. My fix is more of a hack and isn’t very pretty but it is cheap, quick, and it works.

All I used was some tie wire that I had lying around and tied it around the fuselage make sure that it could not come undone. This should hold it just fine.

Today was my best, and worst, day of flying.

I had not had an opportunity to fly in almost 2 weeks due to the weather but had spent some pretty good time in the simulator getting my skills up to par.

Well this morning it was the first time in a long time that the weather was just right to fly so I head to my regular spot. I decided this time around that I was not going to practice approaches and landings but have some fun.

I had a lot of fun!

I turned the ACT off and started doing loops and rudder rolls galore! The only thing was that to do these tricks I had to keep the throttle at full speed so the battery did not last as long.

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