Police Boat Captain 🇬🇧 Basic
Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class · 397 pts
JakeKnight, United Kingdom
Member since Dec 2008
Last online 15 years ago
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Today I used a CNC Miller to make the mould for the cabin. The cabin was designed In ProEngineer first and then milled. The mould was mil…
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Police Boat
I swapped the tamiya connectors for deans connectors now I can go flat out without worrying about melting anything. Also added a cooling …
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Seaplane Tender
The plastic cooling coil wasnt very effective so I soldered some pieces of brass tube to a motor heatsink to make a new water cooling coil.
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Seaplane Tender
Orginaly I had a scoop in-line with the prop but on the left of the hull. (see the photo below) This wasn't very effective and pulled the boat to one side. I m…
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Today I used a CNC Miller to make the mould for the cabin. The cabin was designed In ProEngineer first and then milled. The mould was milled from a dense foam …
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Propshaft
Got the propshaft and motor in, it runs very smooth and quietly I filled the front 2 sections with expanding foam so if the boat ends up upside down, full of w…
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Boat stand, ESC and Servo
I will be using a 35mm 2 blade prop on either 7.4V or 11.1V LiPO, I took this set up out of my Police Boat before converting it to brushless and it worked fine…
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Boat stand, ESC and Servo
Today I made the boat stand, used the trick of wrapping solder round the hull to get the shape then transferred it onto the wood and cut it out. Also fitted th…
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Free from the board!
Today I got the hull of the building board. This was done by prising and smashing the bulkhead supports of the building board. I think the hull looks good and …
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Skin Completion
All 6 skins are on, I used more filler and sanding to smooth the joints. The tape was stuck on to see what the hull will look like when the joints are finished.
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2nd Skin
Thanks for your help, once I have the hull finished and the deck on I will go for the cloth and epoxy, could do with the extra strength if I decide to put an e…
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2nd Skin
Today I glued on the second skin and used car body filler to fill and smooth the joint. I have heard about coating wooden hull's in thinned epoxy, has anyone t…
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1st Skin
1st skin is now glued in place.
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