ARL58 🇪🇸 Silver
Petty Officer 1st Class · 276 pts
28003 Madrid, Spain
Member since Jul 2017
Last online 22 days ago
Age 68
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Retired mining engineer. Formerly involved in technical research. Electronics technician. Professional electronics and embedded systems designer and programmer. Not bad designing and soldering PCBs. Amateur modellist. Amateur machinist. Ham radio operator. And, above all, a Tinkerer.
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“Ángel RODRÍGUEZ, EA4HCN”
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Sailing at Madrid
I will check if somebody has an underwater camera.... In the meanwhile, I managed to clip a couple of videos, so the site was happy with their size.
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Sailing at Madrid
I tried to get big videos uploaded one by one, but doesnt't work .
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Sailing at Madrid
And now, some pics and one video of boats in the water... Unfortunately, it seems that a couple of videos are too big for the site. I will try to edit them to …
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Sailing at Madrid
As far as I know, there is no active Model Club in the city of Madrid. But some fellow modellers use to gather on Sunday mornings at a pond in a municipal park…
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Cheers from Madrid! Last Sunday (2024-04-21) we had a pleasant spring day. I went to our local pond to watch some fellow modellers sailing their ships. A Type …
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Re: Sailing at Madrid (Spain)
I have to rectify. There is still an active modellers' club at Madrid: Club RC Naval de Madrid. Their webpage is.... not the best I've ever seen, so I will not…
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Testing propulsion. Part IV (final): Water trial.
Then I moved to freshwater trials. I filled a bucket with water and placed it in the bathtub. The battery was re-installed (again, never use a mains-powered de…
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Testing propulsion. Part III: testing stuffing box temperature.
38 W (see previous post) was the starting power, of course. Energy conservation laws indicate that excess power would go to heat the grease. More than 30 W is …
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Testing propulsion. Part II: Filling the stuffing box.
I then filled with grease the stuffing box (SB). I had some concerns on this operation. Also, some fellow mariners raised similar issues. These were on i) how …
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Sailing at Madrid (Spain)
As far as I know, there is not a model boat club at Madrid. However, modellers gather Sundays at 10:30 to sail at a pond -actually a set of four connected pond…
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