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Flock of flickers review #6517481 10/29/16 08:51 PM
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Look really cool on TV. Put two of them out today. One fell over as the dog swam by. Also each one takes three aa batteries. For a six pack of them you need 18 aa batteries. Yikes. In conclusion if you do not have a dog, a bunch of money for batteries, and no wind to knock them over they would be really cool.

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They work great for dove. Starting Nov 13th I will be using them in SD corn fields. I think they will work better on dry ground.


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I'm making some flickers out of these motors, old roofing yard signs (wings), 2 liter pop bottles & styrofoam for the body, 2 inch nuts (ballast), and on/off switches from rat shack. I've got some old rechargable NiMH sub-c cells from my RC heli's, I'm gonna bust up the packs and make 3 or 4 cell packs to power them.

http://hobbymasters.com/stevens-1-5-to-4-5v-dc-small-round-can-electric-motor/

I'll spend roughly $4 to make each one plus my time, about an hour for two. I'll let you know how they work.

Re: Flock of flickers review [Re: skyshark] #6521752 11/01/16 05:48 PM
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aerangis can you post pics of your completed product?

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I'll post pics when I get it finished.

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You should name yours something better than Flock of F****ers


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Re: Flock of flickers review [Re: skyshark] #6525178 11/03/16 01:49 PM
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I'm naming mine nojo's.

Re: Flock of flickers review [Re: aerangis] #6525424 11/03/16 03:51 PM
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Originally Posted By: aerangis
I'm making some flickers out of these motors, old roofing yard signs (wings), 2 liter pop bottles & styrofoam for the body, 2 inch nuts (ballast), and on/off switches from rat shack. I've got some old rechargable NiMH sub-c cells from my RC heli's, I'm gonna bust up the packs and make 3 or 4 cell packs to power them.

http://hobbymasters.com/stevens-1-5-to-4-5v-dc-small-round-can-electric-motor/

I'll spend roughly $4 to make each one plus my time, about an hour for two. I'll let you know how they work.


what do you value your time at? Curious how you come out once you figure time that could have been spent on something else.


Attention rickym, this is not a troll post, just a good hearted fun type of post
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Originally Posted By: garrett
Originally Posted By: aerangis
I'm making some flickers out of these motors, old roofing yard signs (wings), 2 liter pop bottles & styrofoam for the body, 2 inch nuts (ballast), and on/off switches from rat shack. I've got some old rechargable NiMH sub-c cells from my RC heli's, I'm gonna bust up the packs and make 3 or 4 cell packs to power them.

http://hobbymasters.com/stevens-1-5-to-4-5v-dc-small-round-can-electric-motor/

I'll spend roughly $4 to make each one plus my time, about an hour for two. I'll let you know how they work.


what do you value your time at? Curious how you come out once you figure time that could have been spent on something else.

If its something you enjoy doing then it really doesn't matter.....I tinker with lots of thing that use time I could have been doing something (or nothing) else......


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Re: Flock of flickers review [Re: garrett] #6525730 11/03/16 06:24 PM
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I'm making some flickers out of these motors, old roofing yard signs (wings), 2 liter pop bottles & styrofoam for the body, 2 inch nuts (ballast), and on/off switches from rat shack. I've got some old rechargable NiMH sub-c cells from my RC heli's, I'm gonna bust up the packs and make 3 or 4 cell packs to power them.

http://hobbymasters.com/stevens-1-5-to-4-5v-dc-small-round-can-electric-motor/

I'll spend roughly $4 to make each one plus my time, about an hour for two. I'll let you know how they work.


what do you value your time at? Curious how you come out once you figure time that could have been spent on something else.


Using that rationale, I take it you get paid 24/7/365.

I don't.


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I'm making some flickers out of these motors, old roofing yard signs (wings), 2 liter pop bottles & styrofoam for the body, 2 inch nuts (ballast), and on/off switches from rat shack. I've got some old rechargable NiMH sub-c cells from my RC heli's, I'm gonna bust up the packs and make 3 or 4 cell packs to power them.

http://hobbymasters.com/stevens-1-5-to-4-5v-dc-small-round-can-electric-motor/

I'll spend roughly $4 to make each one plus my time, about an hour for two. I'll let you know how they work.


what do you value your time at? Curious how you come out once you figure time that could have been spent on something else.


Using that rationale, I take it you get paid 24/7/365.

I don't.


I deal in man hour counts and overall costs all day long, I guess these thoughts just come natural to me when trying to figure out if something is worth doing yourself or subbing it out.


Attention rickym, this is not a troll post, just a good hearted fun type of post
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I deal with a lot of BS when I'm on the clock. I don't watch tv or sports, don't party, don't........ It's nice to spend a few hours farting around the shop and tinkering, at least until phone rings and it's back to the salt mines.

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If Garrett budgeted 2 hours of his time those things would be worth more than hand carved decoys.

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This is true, I consider my billable time at a much higher rate than most


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If Garrett budgeted 2 hours of his time those things would be worth more than hand carved decoys.


I once sold Garrett a decoy for $3 an hour. He tried to get me down to $2 but I held my ground! Learned a good lesson there, I don't work for $3/hr anymore laugh

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To prevent them from flipping over have you thought about hole sawing the back of an old decoy and setting in the hole and anchor the decoy?


There is time, and you must take it, to lay your hand on your dog's head as you walk past him lying on the floor or on his settle, time to talk with him, to remember with him, time to please him, time you can't buy back once he's gone" GBE
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