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Dejarik Warrior @gotyourback
I know it’s long ago now, but in one of your Skyhopper stripdown vids you said you were improving the repulsors with F27A thrusters from a speeder. Was that because you have problems with particle contamination?
Twin Suns @skyseekerpilot
Particle contamination? Did I ever! I hooked them in as a Gorenz array and that helped, but I still had to add a line down from the secondary coolant unit!
Twin Suns @skyseekerpilot
Do you have a Skyhopper? What type?
Dejarik Warrior @gotyourback
Not a Skyhopper. A lightspeed ship. A Gorenz array don’t fit with the fusion reactor connectors. We have particle contamination, it’s bad.
Twin Suns @skyseekerpilot
What have you got?
Dejarik Warrior @gotyourback
YT-1300 Corellian. You know it?
Twin Suns @skyseekerpilot
I’ve never been in one! but I’ve seen the YTs around. Would love to try one! And yeah, I think they use an Aratech repulsorlift system too, so F27s or F30Xs should work :)
Twin Suns @skyseekerpilot
I’m gonna tag @thatsaneatrick on this, I think he flew one once.
FighterFan @thatsaneatrick
I’ve flown a YT-400a. Literally once.
Drop The Cloak @hellothere
You crashed it, as I recall.
FighterFan @thatsaneatrick
That’s not the point!
FighterFan @thatsaneatrick
If you swap out the YRP connectors for reverse polarity NT33s you should be able to wire the repulsors into a Gorenz array.
Drop The Cloak @hellothere
How can you possibly know that? You flew it *once*!
FighterFan @thatsaneatrick
Crashed it once. Stripped the parts to fix up the Twilight after. I noticed it used YRPs.
Twin Suns @skyseekerpilot
Oh yeah, that’d work. Make sure the polarity’s reversed though. Thanks @thatsaneatrick!
Dejarik Warrior @gotyourback
Thanks, buddy. I’ll bear that in mind, if we find some NT33s.
Dejarik Warrior @gotyourback
You remember a couple months ago you said we could use NT33 connectors to make a Gorenz array with the repulsors. How do you insert NT33 connectors when the polarity is reversed?
Twin Suns @skyseekerpilot
Head down and secondary flange rotated. :)
FighterFan @thatsaneatrick
Turn the secondary flange so it’s orthogonal to the groove.
Dejarik Warrior @gotyourback shared itdoesnotfit.hpic
Twin Suns @skyseekerpilot
I see your trouble! I’ve annotated your image so you can see how it works.
Twin Suns @skyseekerpilot shared thatonegoesthere.hpic
Lucky Strike @smoothoperator
@blasteratmyside Why are there pictures of my ship on the holonet?
SabaccFace @blasteratmyside
@smoothoperator Hey, it’s my ship, remember? You lost her to me fair and square!
SabaccFace @blasteratmyside
@skyseekerpilot Why are there pictures of my ship on the holonet?
SabaccFace @blasteratmyside
@skyseekerpilot Wait a minute, are you the guys who said we should fix our thrusters with speeder parts?
Dejarik Warrior @gotyourback
It didn’t work. And then it exploded.
Lucky Strike @smoothoperator
You blew up my ship?
Dejarik Warrior @gotyourback
Only a little.
Lucky Strike @smoothoperator
You blew up my ship!
SabaccFace @blasteratmyside
It’s not your ship.
Twin Suns @skyseekerpilot
I’m so sorry! It should have worked!! Send me another pic if there’s anything left to see and I’ll see if I can work out what went wrong 😭
FighterFan @thatsaneatrick
The technique is sound. it should have worked. Did you reverse the polarity?
Twin Suns @skyseekerpilot
Sorry again
Dejarik Warrior @gotyourback
Not your fault @skyseekerpilot. *Someone* counterwired the fusion generator cross-couplings and not told me.
SabaccFace @blasteratmyside
Well I didn’t know you were going to plug NT33s in retrograde! It’s not my fault!
SabaccFace @blasteratmyside
@skyseekerpilot you owe me a new repulsorlift.