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New Fenders

I was using as fenders. But, didn't really like them. So, I ordered new string fenders! I had to dye them dying them took about 5 hours! So, What do you think of Brooklyn's New fenders?

5 years ago by figtree7nts

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Re: New Fenders

Hi Don, I ordered my fenders from Ebay! It took about 3-4 weeks to arrive! https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=MODEL+BOAT+FENDERS&_sacat=0 They are way better than the . They're soft and will protect the model! Ed

5 years ago by figtree7nts

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As Marky says it suits the Brooklyn.Looks like I will have to put the same style of fenders on my New Jersey.The kept being ripped off.Close encounters with the dock.They do look better on an older period tug.👍

5 years ago by Donnieboy

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Restoration Help!

HI Coedleys, welcome! most of us have gone through your pain, my boat was a lot worse! Now, rudder, as mentioned before, don't worry about it for now, its an easy swop later when testing, most of the boats on here have very different set ups and performance, it depends what you want. if its reasonable scale speed, your rudder might be ok. With my boat, I wanted very fast, I needed a much narrower rudder, like a race boat, as the rudder your size was acting like a brake in turns and was causing the bow to submarine. The down side is I cant really do tight turns. Try to stay on one subject at a time, otherwise you are going to get lost. Look at all the videos on here, pick the sort of performance you find acceptable for yourself, and see what the set up is for that particular boat. Shaft, get mole grips on it, and twist it out, you have to be brutal! SHG Marine do good props and shafts, make sure its ballraced at motor end if its going to be reasonably fast, I don't really like the standard brass bushings, I got from SHG glacier bearings for the prop end, they lubricate with water. Give them a ring, very helpful. I see from your position, are you North Wales, if so, there is a model show at Ellesmere Port boat museum this march, might be worth a trip over? For fittings, Scale models at Skelmersdale has white metal monitors, they need a bit of work to clean them up, but are cheap, and Steve is very helpful. Spray rails, not sure what you mean, the ones on the hull, if so, they should already be there, or are you referring to the deck rails? They are just glued on, evergreen plasticard has a range that will do, again, check out SHG downloaded catalogue. Also, model exchange on the North wales coast road (where the market is, Flint?) have a lot of building materials and stuff for boats, but not specific to Fireboat, worth a rummage though! Wheelhouse roof, wondering why you want to take it off? I did, as I wanted a removable roof. The new one was made from 1.5mm plasticard over a plywood form. its a very complex shape, and very difficult, I have to admit it was done for me by HS93 on this forum, he is a real craftsman (ta Peter!). it has a fold down mast which is real cool! If you are going back to wood, check out the bow, they have atendancy to leak and the ply laminates split. Mine was rotton, I had to replace it. I use halfords resin inside to reseal, and fibreglassed all the deck and cabin sides to stop the wood splitting. Quite an easy job. Hope this helps, keep the questions coming, if you go to Ellesmere let me know, I will prob be there! HI Im tom logon name boatshed. regarding your rudder, Im now getting back into model boating, and from earlier powerboating with models I was once advised to do away with the leading edge of the rudder "ie" cut it away to as near as the post as you can with out damaging the soldering and this was a gerat idea as it gave you a better turn at speed and stopped the rudder acting as a brake. hope this may help you.

14 years ago by BOATSHED