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6 months ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker (
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Just to say thanks to Tony again and indeed the Hayling Island guys - real diamonds! Went on a Sunday morning with great grandson Kayden and his tugboat (Wyforce) and had a really good time. Guys were welcoming and gave great advice. On a Tuesday evening meet they sorted out our RNLI lifeboat which has been fooling me for years now runs great - backwards - how do you reverse the direction controls on a Planet TS+2 transmitter?😀
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7 months ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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Thanks Tony, One I had not heard of. It is in fact 20 miles by road each way - but no matter - worth a go - the pond looks fine, I'll check to see if it is fresh water but the vid shows all sorts fo craft on it so....😀
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7 months ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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Ok now the boats sit around and have not moved since lockdown. Great grandson has always been paranoid about losing his boats so we only went to the lake in the New Forest once. Is there any safe freshwater pond he could take his boats to (power not sailboat) within a reasonable distance (5 to 8 miles max) of Fareham in Hampshire? Quite a few sail only and 'salt' lakes we know about.
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1 year ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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Brilliant, they are still making me smile. I am replacing my L & R ones! Happy New Year everyone....👍
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1 year ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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Lovely - took me back to her predecessor though and seeing her gleaming white in the Mersey. Lastly though on a run on the overhead railway 1953 - she lay almost on her side, her white hull, brown and blackened by fire and wayer still being poured into her and 'steam' rising off her. Saddest sight I've never forgotten. I was 8!☹️
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2 years ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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Hi Colin, I'm well versed with BoT as well and Marston's are another favourite of mine (and Bass) - as is the tales I can tell of the brewery. I also have memories of that wonderful (not to motorists) internal rail system. Swap stories sometime.👍
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2 years ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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Re "good beers never travel far" reminds me of a remark from the head brewer of Shipstone's (long lost Nottingham brewer) in their sample cellar. I'd just commented on a superb pint of bitter there and enquired why they didn't release it as their 'normal' fare was regarded as an aquired taste (not -it was awful!). He told me this was that "same bitter which unfortunately didn't travel far - even to their own pub next door to the brewery"!!!!!!🤞🤞
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2 years ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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I have a bottle labelled "King Goblin - Imperial Ruby" @ 6.6 - saving it for New Years eve. I love the Ruby but not the Gold - the aftertaste not for my palette. Fave this time of the year is an old favourite Hardy & Hanson's "Rockin Rudolph" - rush down to your nearest Green King pub and get one! Ah- memories of H&H by far the finest of the Nottingham Breweries and maybe the whole east midlands!👍
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2 years ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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I was away so didn't get to see this one until today, only 'guessed' the right answer because I knew the other three. The answer I was looking for was missing but of course it wasn't 'fictional' the Hopewell was one of the ships that the explorer Henry Hudson sailed in.👎
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📝 "VENETIAN NIGHT SAILING"
2 years ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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Ahh! Brings back memories of Matlock Bath and it's 'Venetian Nights' every year - do they still have them? Bit earlier in the year methinks.👍
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📝 2 Engine - no rudder RC
3 years ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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Thanks Doug the 35mhz will be back on EBay! Incidentally most of us Bruce Baker's I reckon use the Brubaker moniker for one thing or another and yes a great film. All the best. 😎
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📝 2 Engine - no rudder RC
3 years ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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Thanks Dave, especially re the 35mhz which I did not know about the only thing with that is the pots look the same as the Spektrum (externally anyway). I have looked inside the Planet with a view to simply turning the pots but on mine the 'upper' part of the pod is part of the casing the four screws merely remove the bottom half. I'll have a real look at the Spektrum next week (half-term) and attempt the 'mod' as necessary.👍
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📝 2 Engine - no rudder RC
3 years ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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The original unit supplied by a dealer in Shoreham (UK) is a 'Planet TS2+2' which is the one I've described with the molded in pots. Now one by design and another by accident from eBay which before I do any dismantling look very similar. I picked up a 2.4 "Spektrum DX6" and by what I don't know I got a 35mhz "JR-Propo X-378" as well. Lots of notes on setting up drones and aircraft with both - the latter in 'Japanese'! I'll get the back off both of these next week and see what I've got. With the info you great guys have given I'm hoping to crack it. Just hoping I can bind the reciever OK or use the 35mhz which came with a receiver. Thanks again.😎
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📝 2 Engine - no rudder RC
3 years ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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Now tank steering I can understand since I helped build em! Not the WW1 ones of course - Cents mainly. My trouble with this is that they are pod motors - supposedly matched but no amount of trimming can get the balance right - hence wanting to use the motors on individual controls - tried this with the RC set we got and it works well - except the 'pods' are molded in one L/R the other up/down - not easy! 👍
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📝 2 Engine - no rudder RC
3 years ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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Thanks to you all for your replies which are appreciated more than you will ever know. RC models are a 'dark-art' to me being delved into for an enthusiastic great-grandson. He has a 'Southampton' tug which I have cosmetically and operationally changed a little and provided a modified crew (from plastic soldiers) but attention's back to his 'Severn' lifeboat which has been a headache for years and has cost a veritable fortune in pension monies so far. Hopefully your replies will get me over the final hurdle. I especially like the idea of doing away with the spring and 'centraling' and instead modifying that one to match the 'friction' one - really had never thought of that and I reckon it will be easier in the long run to control the motors. 😀😀😀
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📝 2 Engine - no rudder RC
3 years ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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I'm looking to get a two 'lever' (?) RC controller/receiver so that one stick controls one motor forward/reverse and the other stick controls the second motor. All the RC's seem to be for planes and drones with engines controlled from one stick - ailerons etc (or rudders) from the other which is invariably not spring loaded up/down (sometimes left/right) where I want both sticks spring loaded the same as each other (using separate channels of course). Any ideas please.👎👎
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📝 RNLI-Severn
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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It's a ready built one marketed under the auspices of the RNLI itself. I bought it from a shop called Nauticalia. There are numerous stories about it on the www - overheting, sizing up motors etc. I was offered a refund by the shop but they had no replacements and the little man was/is really attached to it - even though now all he can do is float it in the bath. There are also stories of it being modified to full RC specs, but I don't want to go the pro route, just something he can use and have fun with as originally intended but with better motors (water-proof).
I was an engineer and I've modelled locomotives, mended clocks and built 1:1 racing motorcycles - not boats in any scale though. Trouble now is I can't hold anything steady, problems even to write. Despite being on the coast I know of only one model boat club - it's a good one but it's racing 'yachts' only and very pro too.
I was an engineer and I've modelled locomotives, mended clocks and built 1:1 racing motorcycles - not boats in any scale though. Trouble now is I can't hold anything steady, problems even to write. Despite being on the coast I know of only one model boat club - it's a good one but it's racing 'yachts' only and very pro too.
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📝 RNLI-Severn
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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Thanks Ed!
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8 years ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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Since no one has replied to my plea of the 6th October. I have decided to give the boat away Anyone interested at all?
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📝 RNLI Severn - help please!
8 years ago by 🇬🇧 brubaker ( Leading Seaman)
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Usual despair story I'm afraid, bought one of these for the great grandson who at 5 is mad about it, but of course one of the motors has seized due to water ingress despite spreading petroleum jelly around the pod joints before use and drying etc afterwards. I was offered a refund but declined because it's no longer available and the aforementioned lad is so attached to it. I've read how lots of folks have modified these with more conventional inboard drives etc and I'd like to do something like that here but the problem is my hands which no longer allow me to do any modelling or delicate work, even writing is a problem. If possible I'd like to find someone in the Southampton/Portsmouth/Winchester/Chichester (England) area who could help, if possible I'd like to retain the current RC set up if possible and I'm not after a scale speed craft, a couple of small brush type motors, shafts etc in the current hull space would be fine and of course I'd recompense for time etc. Can anyone out there help please?
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