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📝 Brushless setup
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon (
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Some brushless controllers I have had require some setup. Try turning on the transmitter with throttle stick in neutral.
Plug in the battery on the boat. Turn the on/off switch to on if it has one.
When you hear the first beep put the throttle stick up to full, then full down to what would be reverse. Then back to neutral.
If it makes a series of beeps following this procedure you may be in luck. Try easing up on the throttle again and hopefully it will work. If the motor turns the wrong way just reverse any two of the three wires and that should fix it. Good Luck!
Plug in the battery on the boat. Turn the on/off switch to on if it has one.
When you hear the first beep put the throttle stick up to full, then full down to what would be reverse. Then back to neutral.
If it makes a series of beeps following this procedure you may be in luck. Try easing up on the throttle again and hopefully it will work. If the motor turns the wrong way just reverse any two of the three wires and that should fix it. Good Luck!
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📝 Hospital
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Well wishes to you Phil. Get well soon.
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📝 Battery's
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Also be aware some brushless speed controllers have a low voltage cutoff threshold. Could potentially leave you "adrift" should your brushless motor pull your NiMH down too quickly.
Some programmable controllers also have battery "type" selectability.
Some programmable controllers also have battery "type" selectability.
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📝 FPV Experience
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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💬 Re: Deans Marine City of Ely
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Dust first then, damp swabing. Lots of patience.
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💬 Re: Fun at the lake
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Beautiful model. I looks big, what is the length?
Very realistic.
Very realistic.
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📝 Steam tugboat tow hooks
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Possibly for a bridle rigged barge towing arrangement.
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💬 Re: Another Tug
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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That older tug looks much like a plastic Lindberg 1/72 scale model I had built once. Beautiful classic US tug lines.
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📝 A suitable glue?????????????
4 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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I used rubber contact cement for most of mine and a few I used a "flexible" cyanoacrylate.
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📝 Vertical boiler identification
5 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Yea really sorry i missed this one. I have a Midwest fantail launch that I lengthened by 8 inches amidships and this would have been perfect for it. This body of this one was 3" diameter and 7" tall.
Hoping someone here has an idea who made this one or possibly has one or one similar they might be interested in selling.
Hoping someone here has an idea who made this one or possibly has one or one similar they might be interested in selling.
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📝 Looking for help identifying....
5 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Looking for help identifying this vertical boiler. It was listed on ebay over the weekend and I missed bidding on it. Is this an early PM Research vertical boiler? If anyone knows or maybe has one like it for sale I am interested.
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📝 Vertical boiler identification
5 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Looking for help identifying this vertical boiler. It was listed on ebay over the weekend and I missed bidding on it. Is this an early PM Research vertical boiler? If anyone knows or maybe has one like it for sale I am interested.
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📝 Philly Cheese Steak
8 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Yes but you folks in the UK put together a great breakfast I must say.
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💬 Re: Modular Barge Set
10 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Looks like that will be a great barge with the working crane Lew.
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📝 Dock = US carrier @ 1/35 scale
10 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Airplane guys could try some carrier landings (with an arrestor hook of course.)🤔
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💬 Re: Tugboat Yenikapi
10 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Fantastic. Excellent details, job well done sir!👍
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📝 Auction remnants
10 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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That is quite a bargain! I like the large paddle steamer.
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📝 Help required
11 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Could be used as a fantail launch hull as well. Sorry I don't have an idea on who manufactured it. Very nice lines for sure.
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📝 STEERING
11 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Well could you use a "y" splitter between the receiver and rudder servo? Signal to the rudder servo is then mimicked through the other leg of the splitter to your linear actuator moving your helm wheel?
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📝 STEERING
11 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Really neat stuff on their website:
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📝 STEERING
11 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Here is one from a robot building website that is made to plug into your R/C receiver:
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📝 Two of my “other engines”
12 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Steam turbine to spin a dynamo to make the juice for an electric motor? That sounds like fun.
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📝 Brushed Speed Controller.
12 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Oh my why I didn't even think of this....how about for an aircraft? No reverse on those!. Wouldn't be waterproof but could be made to be waterproof.
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📝 Brushed Speed Controller.
12 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Maybe a specialized ESC for fast "forward only" boats.
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📝 Brushed Speed Controller.
12 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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No reverse? From what I have seen most brushed ESC's can be programmed with a "card" to cancel out the braking effect but there will still be a neutral or dead position and the opposite direction (stick back) will be reverse.
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💬 Re: Titan Tug
12 months ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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What vintage is the kit Ed?
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💬 Re: ATSF railroad tug and barge
1 year ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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The train scale is 1/24th. I used an inexpensive battery operated New Bright train set. The barge is a large block of Styrofoam with a rubberized coating of Flexseal. Deck is plywood. Length is around 67 inches (170cm)
The railroad tug I built up as you see it now from a model I picked up thru a classified ad but it's origins are unknown.(see pic) Hull is a plastic coated expanded foam material
The railroad tug I built up as you see it now from a model I picked up thru a classified ad but it's origins are unknown.(see pic) Hull is a plastic coated expanded foam material
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📝 ATSF railroad tug and barge
1 year ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Ran the tug and barge yesterday up at the Elk Grove Regional park with the Sacramento Model Shipwrights. Worked out well with no navigational troubles. Plenty of rudder authority.
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📝 FPV (First person view) for scale model boats
1 year ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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There is also this which uses your android phone or tablet as the viewing screen. I think it is designed to be used with a goggle headset so there is a split screen. Not sure if you can select single screen.
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📝 FPV (First person view) for scale model boats
1 year ago by 🇺🇸 algon ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Might be best to find a small "used" drone and part out the RX/TX video equipment. You could also try Hobbyking or Banggood websites.
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