LesRo Sportsman (?) Restoration
I have managed to acquire this model boat from a friend.
The pictures that I will include as I work my way through it suggest to me (wishful thinking?) that I after many years of searching, I may have accidentally found a genuine LesRo Sportsman.😱
Here it is pictured on my workbench - something I was beginning to think would never happen!
Bob.
The pictures that I will include as I work my way through it suggest to me (wishful thinking?) that I after many years of searching, I may have accidentally found a genuine LesRo Sportsman.😱
Here it is pictured on my workbench - something I was beginning to think would never happen!
Bob.
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As the hull is already built the bulkheads would make it really difficult to fit a tube that already has an oiler soldered onto it, so I will fit a plain shaft without an oiler.
Most of my prop shafts have a 5mm inner shaft and have run for years (some have run for hundreds of hours) without an oiler fitted so this is not likely to be a problem on this boat - and various clamp-on oilers can be retro-fitted easily enough if I should ever feel the need to have one in the future.
Bob.
It was telescopic and had an adjustable base so I am guessing that the boat was originally sailed with a 27meg radio?
This assembly has now been removed and left a hole that will need to be covered of filled.
Bob.