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📝 Question of the Day?
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This one rings a bell 😁
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📝 Sterling boat models
1 day ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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I remember my Sterling Chriscraft Buccaneer from the hazy annals of my youth. If I remember correctly it had a thick balsa base with a balsa double hull on the sides.🤔
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📝 Is this site running slow?
3 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Another thought on web sites running slow. When last have you cleared your browser cache, I did not think of this as it is something I do on a regular basis. In the past I have had people complaining to me that their internet is getting slower and slower, I showed them how to clear their cache and lo and behold everything starts working again.
A word of warning, you will loose your browsing history, cached data, cached images, files and auto fill data. Be careful as you could clear your passwords as well. There I’d a selection screen showing the options.
A word of warning, you will loose your browsing history, cached data, cached images, files and auto fill data. Be careful as you could clear your passwords as well. There I’d a selection screen showing the options.
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📝 Is this site running slow?
4 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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As a site grows it will slow down.
There are two options to fix that-
Delete the historical content, this takes time and manpower
Second is to throw more power at the site, this takes money, this would mean everyone would have to chip in.
I would like to see how you would go
There are two options to fix that-
Delete the historical content, this takes time and manpower
Second is to throw more power at the site, this takes money, this would mean everyone would have to chip in.
I would like to see how you would go
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📝 Question of the Day?
9 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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This is a prime example of a minister making a mountain out of a molehill by not having all the facts.
Pontoppidan, a Danish minister wrote a book based on myths and his illustrations depict a giant squid or octopus Serving to foster this myth but this is typical of men of the cloth over the ages.
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Pontoppidan, a Danish minister wrote a book based on myths and his illustrations depict a giant squid or octopus Serving to foster this myth but this is typical of men of the cloth over the ages.
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📝 Question of the Day?
13 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Have we now digressed into ornithology 🤣
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📝 Question of the Day?
16 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Pat I agree, had to read a couple of times before it made sense
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📝 Testing LED diodes
26 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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As I have said before, I was an electronic engineer.
Resistors are ok for a single LED but to vary the brightness you have to change the value of the resistor, de-soldering and re soldering and probably replacing the sleeving. Arduino micro controllers are not for beginners unless you wish to go through a lengthy learning curve as you require electronic and coding knowledge. I see that some of you use Vero board, not the best idea in marine applications due to corrosion.
Designing and etching PC boards is another area requiring a lot of experience and best avoided for beginners.
I am able to design simple to complex electronic circuits, design and make their associated circuit boards as well as building them.
Then why, do you ask, do I use LED drivers and digital switches that I buy from Amazon. The answer is simple, they are cheaper than I can build them for and gives me more time to spend building and running model boats. After all my hobby is model boats, not electronics.
My two pence worth 🤔
Resistors are ok for a single LED but to vary the brightness you have to change the value of the resistor, de-soldering and re soldering and probably replacing the sleeving. Arduino micro controllers are not for beginners unless you wish to go through a lengthy learning curve as you require electronic and coding knowledge. I see that some of you use Vero board, not the best idea in marine applications due to corrosion.
Designing and etching PC boards is another area requiring a lot of experience and best avoided for beginners.
I am able to design simple to complex electronic circuits, design and make their associated circuit boards as well as building them.
Then why, do you ask, do I use LED drivers and digital switches that I buy from Amazon. The answer is simple, they are cheaper than I can build them for and gives me more time to spend building and running model boats. After all my hobby is model boats, not electronics.
My two pence worth 🤔
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💬 Re: Classic Water-Cooled Model Power Boat Engines.
27 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Bob, did you see my PM
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📝 Question of the Day?
27 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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I knew the anchors in B C and D so guessed A 🤔
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📝 Testing LED diodes
29 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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I was an electronics engineer and avoid using resistors to supply LEDs. The reason that I use driver boards is that they supply pulsed (PWM) supply to the LEDs and by varying the pulse width, you change the brightness. The input voltage is anything from 6 to 24 volts and the brightness is as easy as turning a preset potentiometer. No worries about V=IR and it’s derivatives.🤣
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📝 Testing LED diodes
29 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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I use LED driver boards that I buy from Amazon.
At 2 for £8 I could not even buy the components to build them myself. The input voltage is 6-24v and the output current variable so changing brightness is easy.
At 2 for £8 I could not even buy the components to build them myself. The input voltage is 6-24v and the output current variable so changing brightness is easy.
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📝 Question of the Day?
29 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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The revision questions are working, 100% so far on todays question
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📝 Question of the Day?
30 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Shortest route and longest answer 😂
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Todays question has got an issue, I answered keel and was told that it was correct but still got marked as wrong.
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📝 CA Glue Type
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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I bought a pack of 100 of those spouts, they work fantastically and prevent the cyno from drying out
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📝 Faulty Spektrum TX
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Register on Spectrum’s web site. This will allow you to download updates and apply them to your transmitter.
This may fix your issue
This may fix your issue
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💬 Re: Classic Water-Cooled Model Power Boat Engines.
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Nice one Bob
Here are some of my collection of motors.
No electric motor can come close to the Rossi 60 with a tuned pipe running 20% nitro
I do bench run some of mine every once in a while.
Have a few more, will dig out and post pictures.
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Here are some of my collection of motors.
No electric motor can come close to the Rossi 60 with a tuned pipe running 20% nitro
I do bench run some of mine every once in a while.
Have a few more, will dig out and post pictures.
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Geography ?
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💬 Re: Re: Re: Classic Model Power Boats
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Sarik list the plan
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📝 Wanted Pulley
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Try EBay,
U Grooved Pulley PU Round Belt Pulleys Aluminum Groove Width 3mm OD 15-30mm
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Deja vu, everyone should get this right 🤔
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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One for the Boy Scout in me
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Pat there are still 3% who got it wrong so it will have to come up again🤣
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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In todays question both Nickel Ore and Bauxite (as per 2016 IMSBC Code) are definitely classed as Group A cargo. Both require a certificate of Transportable Moisture Limit.
Therefore both are correct, t this question must be cancelled and a new one published.
Therefore both are correct, t this question must be cancelled and a new one published.
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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In Todays question none of the answers are correct, you cannot get it right.
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Goog news for Steve’s broken leg, doctors will fix it with Superglue like they did to me. Does a better job than stitches or clips. 😂
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Good news, I’m home again
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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The trouble is that the guys in my ward no nothing about boats, neither do the nurses. So no help with QotD, could say they are all clawless 🤣
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Captain)
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Doing QotD from my hospital bed, I’m really a sad bugger.😂
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