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Re: Project: Cancelled!
… at as I know you were really looking forward to making that Tug. Did you receive my email ? Martin555.
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Project: Cancelled!
Hi All, After receiving the model of the tug Atlantic. And close inspection of the instructions. I regret to say this Project is being cancelled! The instructions are just pictures. On a cd, there are no written instruction what so ever! Th …
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Not at all amused!
… do? I'm very use to building with mesurements! Looks as if Tug Atlantic is going to be shipped back!!!!!!️️️
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Night Watch
… sing the Shake-down and provisioning for the Squadron's new tug. I'll be keeping a sharp eye out for inordinate quantities of Pizza and Bourbon on the Requisition Chits! Have a quiet night Admiral going ashore. G'night All
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Night Watch
CPO Hargett reporting. New fleet tug Taucher has passed sea trials and is berthed with other Western Fleet vessels and the staff Studebaker. No problems here with the Hurricane this far north, however, HQ was invaded by daughters sleepover …
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Gear Ratio?
OK, I've built model tugs and have used. 3.1 ratio but the tug Atlantis is more of a ship! I'm thinking what gear ratio should I use? Should it be 11.1 or 50.1! See,I don't want the model. To take off like a rocket! I'd like a scaled look t …
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Re: She runs!!
… sh, really looks the business under way Let it be recorded: Tug Taucher Wulf commissioned this day into the Western Squadron, Texas Navy Two 3Ah packs "wired in parallel"! Hmm! I'm always very wary of that in case one tries to charge the ot …
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Graupner Taucher Wulf-an ongoing drama
… lt 2 more boats in the past year, the Neptun and a Springer tug, and I learned a lot from both of them, so I pulled the Taucher from it’s hiding spot and began anew. I will post some pics from last year, then I’ll post the most recent. I ma …
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Night Watch
… Supply Fleet! * Progress on our new, almost complete, Fleet Tug 'Taucher Wulf' has, understandably, been delayed due to hurricane Dorian. Update from CPO Cash Texas Navy ASAP. END OF BULLETIN. Signed: Doug, Fleet Admiral and Senior Nutter
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Work with Balsa wood
… 964 is decked in 3/8"x1/8" balsa over 1/4" frames. My 4' 6" tug built in the 1970's has its Hull and decks in balsa, decks 3/16" thick planks. And the Hull is 1/4" thick x 1/2" wide planks. Then my grandfather's tug built in the early 1950' …
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Work with Balsa wood
… requiring extensive bending, like the transom of the Beaver tug, are required to be cut across the grain. ................ I remember back to the dawn of time, when there were still beam engines pumping water, the summers were blazing, the …
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Hints on Ballast
… is a doddle, just move the SLA(s) fore or aft to suit. That tug with 20kg ballast must be huge I've seen huge (>2m!) models of container ships and tankers etc over here, which use car batteries for power thus reducing the need for dead ball …
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Hints on Ballast
My large model tug requires almost 20kg ballast. I use lead scrap, melted and poured into cube-shape plaster of Paris moulds of about 4kg size. Before the lead sets I insert a small lop of stainless cable to form a handle. These lead cubes …
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Re: Ballast and underdeck
… ike the "bombs" too Neat idea. So now you have a "Boom Boom Tug" Ooer! You realise this thread has now drawn the attention of the NSA, BND, MI5 and James Bond etc etc
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Re: Fairmount Alpine
… Christmas" Jugge Looks good Attached pics of my Southampton tug mast light conversion. Cheers, Doug
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Re: Deck/hatch built, motor selected
… 55 and 65 turn in Helen fishing boats and the 80 turn in a tug boat. No cooling on the motors !! Canabus
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… facilities. Would be nice to see a few fishing boats - more tugs - Cabin Cruisers etc etc.
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… chnical description of the reason water sticks to surfaces. Tugs usually have heavy ballast and are more likely to have waves breaking over them than to ride up and over them. And sealing a deck effectively is going to depend very much on t …
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… losses since then. Problem occurred when kitting a "Sunny" tug for my grandson (MB magazine A3plan) have had to extensively redesign due to that having a removable deck. Tugs are notorious for being wet boats since they have very little fr …
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… ost all of my treasured possessions.....Including a Hobbies Tug kit with mighty midget motor etc , a Basset Lowke ally hulled cabin cruiser powered by a Taycol Star and for a final insult boxed Dinkys given to her kids to play with in the s …
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Offshore Crane Vessel Bokalift 1, Build by Dutch sailing group Mail-line
… ing the conversion. Partly because many members already had tugs from shipping company Smit, the decision was made to build a model of the BokaLift 1. (scale 1/50) During a construction meeting in spring 2018, the members decided to build t …
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What connector to use?
… car points hooked to a servo for the 450 motor in the first tug I built (just on-off). You could use a similar system (tandem operated +- contacts) to switch on your power by TX and forget about plugs. Copper contacts on the cabin could be …
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… f his own, and he is also leaning to control my large scale tugs. I'm sure if we persevere he'll be a fine modeller of the future. Cheers Colin.
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Transport System for model boats
… , it also has a small winch so that he can lower his small Tug in to the water and retrieve it. Martin.
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Dumb Barge
Having a couple of tugs in my fleet. I always considered building a dumb barge to play with. However i was always concerned about the weight required for ballast, etc. However june 2019 model boats mag has come to the rescue. The hull desig …
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Magnetic motors
… a. If you do find one, I will order a couple of 40mm for my tug and a further on for my trawler. As to the Magnetic Motors, for me its about space in the model to fit enough generation capacity to meet the full load requirements. Assuming t …
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Re: My current fleet 14 July 2019
… er. how's he going to escape when she's scuttled, in a mini tug? Better watch out for the Kiwis in their mini Archilles with her NZ SS1 fire control radar and foils, could be deadly on foam and plywood!
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Boat retrieval
… ships with a steel plate on the foredeck and my Southampton tug with a crane and electro or neodymium magnet on the end. Several years ago I modified one of the minesweeping cranes on the stern of my destroyer with a winch and a grappling h …