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10 hours ago by 🇬🇧 EdW (
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I stocked up on silver steel precision rod and stainless tube so from now on I will be making my own prop shafts.
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 day ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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A dingy without buoyancy is basically a bath with sails 🤣
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📝 Question of the Day?
4 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Pat with due respect this falls under games so treat it as such. It is there for entertainment and not there as an exam.
Just chill out and enjoy.
Some people do not have your breath of experience and apart from that I have looked and cannot find the rule book for Qotd
So calling people cheats is as bad as when someone slagged you off lighten up.
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Just chill out and enjoy.
Some people do not have your breath of experience and apart from that I have looked and cannot find the rule book for Qotd
So calling people cheats is as bad as when someone slagged you off lighten up.
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📝 Question of the Day?
6 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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A and C are both correct, C is just a full description of the same operation
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💬 Re: Schooner Kamanik
8 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Very nice
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📝 Ammusement
9 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Nuff said 🤣
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📝 Ammusement
10 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Pat
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Feel safer this way
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Feel safer this way
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📝 Sprite
10 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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I have the original free plan from Model Boats magazine.
Built it years ago but it is in my to do list.
Built it years ago but it is in my to do list.
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📝 Bloody AliExpress
10 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Pat I would bet my bottom dollar on the problem being with Yodel, they are really bad.
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📝 Sprite
10 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Egrette - 27in long 9in beam
Have you seen this one, total styrene construction.
Plan and hull kit available from Sarik Hobbies
Have you seen this one, total styrene construction.
Plan and hull kit available from Sarik Hobbies
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📝 Question of the Day?
10 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Deja vu 🤔
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📝 Question of the Day?
12 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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The answer is correct but pretty useless if the exit pupil size is not big enough.
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📝 Ammusement
13 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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So if a person falls overboard you should ask them what their preferred pronouns are before you call …. overboard, that way you offend nobody.
Please note that if I fall overboard you can shout MAN Overboard and rescue me I won’t be offended just relieved that someone is aware that I am busy drowning.
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Please note that if I fall overboard you can shout MAN Overboard and rescue me I won’t be offended just relieved that someone is aware that I am busy drowning.
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📝 Question of the Day?
16 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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This one is over the top, the only reason that I got it correct was that a week or so ago I was discussing the use of a sextant with a friend and got out “the gospel according to Mr Letcher” and refreshed my memory over the next few evenings, why I don’t know, but I must have sensed this comming.🤣
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📝 Motors past and present
17 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Lew looks like your problem is oxidation, I would carefully strip it down and try cleaning. Care with the commutator and brush gear would be needed. The other important area is the bearings.
If this all fails you could try replacing the motor with one of a similar size.
This motor is a great example of something from the past and deserves another shot at life.
Pity I am too far away to give you a hand with this.
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If this all fails you could try replacing the motor with one of a similar size.
This motor is a great example of something from the past and deserves another shot at life.
Pity I am too far away to give you a hand with this.
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📝 Question of the Day?
18 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Not forgetting the T prefix on armed trawlers
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📝 Motors past and present
19 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Here is another .049 motor that I recently sold to a guy in Finland
K&B Fury Outboard
K&B Fury Outboard
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📝 Motors past and present
19 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Lew, a well run in motor set correctly was easy to start. You needed a flywheel on marine engines to make up for the lack of a air prop. The groove in the flywheel was used to start. My favourite start cord was a leather bootlace that had been treated with Dubbin. I became very adept at spinning a flywheel with it. Tight the one way and loose the other way. Took two people, one to hold the boat and the other to spin the motor or you held the model between your knees. Thank goodness I now run all electric as kneeling down would be a bit of a challenge
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📝 Motors past and present
19 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Lew, a water prop
I searched EBay and found one for sale in the US.
Here is the drawing showing the motor placement
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I searched EBay and found one for sale in the US.
Here is the drawing showing the motor placement
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📝 Motors past and present
20 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Hi Lew
As I mentioned in a previous post, I ran .049 in a Sterling Chris Craft Buccaneer, the Tee Dee .15 in the picture I ran in a Dumas Thriftaway Too. Both were tethered boats.
I then moved onto RC and used various motors most of which I still have but they all have carbs.
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As I mentioned in a previous post, I ran .049 in a Sterling Chris Craft Buccaneer, the Tee Dee .15 in the picture I ran in a Dumas Thriftaway Too. Both were tethered boats.
I then moved onto RC and used various motors most of which I still have but they all have carbs.
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20 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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The first 2 are obviously false and the third not true either, so by my limited powers of deduction the fourth must be what they want. 🤔
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📝 Motors past and present
21 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Here are some of my Cox motors, All Tee Dee’s.
010, .09 and .15.
The other motors are all .049. Walker, Testors and unknown make.
010, .09 and .15.
The other motors are all .049. Walker, Testors and unknown make.
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📝 Interesting Robbe kit from years back...
21 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Jump,
the red car pre-dated the Cox Bees and Tee Dees.
It was about 1948 or there about and was about a .19.
In answer to Lew’s question, Cox made .010, .020, .049, .051, .09 and .15 motors. Some were reed valve and others rotary valve. They made various versions of these.
They made some others like the Cloud Hopper but nearly 60 years has somewhat clouded my recollections.
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I have a collection of motors ranging from .010 to 50cc, glow and petrol. Some date back to the 1930s and I have the points and coils to run them as spark ignition. Some are marine water cooled motors.
If you are interested I can start a new post on post pictures of my motors.
the red car pre-dated the Cox Bees and Tee Dees.
It was about 1948 or there about and was about a .19.
In answer to Lew’s question, Cox made .010, .020, .049, .051, .09 and .15 motors. Some were reed valve and others rotary valve. They made various versions of these.
They made some others like the Cloud Hopper but nearly 60 years has somewhat clouded my recollections.
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I have a collection of motors ranging from .010 to 50cc, glow and petrol. Some date back to the 1930s and I have the points and coils to run them as spark ignition. Some are marine water cooled motors.
If you are interested I can start a new post on post pictures of my motors.
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📝 Harbor Freight Tools
22 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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In the UK we have Screwfix and Toolstation which are similar to Harbour Freight.
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📝 Interesting Robbe kit from years back...
22 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Hi Jump
I have a few on my fingers as well, I used to run a Baby Bee holding it in my hand, not very safety aware.🤣
I had a Cox Dragster as well.
My father had a Cox Thimbledrome tethered car this disappeared after his passing like a lot of other things.
I remember running it on a few occasions on a disused part of an airfield near where I grew up.
It was much like the car in the picture.
I have a few on my fingers as well, I used to run a Baby Bee holding it in my hand, not very safety aware.🤣
I had a Cox Dragster as well.
My father had a Cox Thimbledrome tethered car this disappeared after his passing like a lot of other things.
I remember running it on a few occasions on a disused part of an airfield near where I grew up.
It was much like the car in the picture.
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📝 Interesting Robbe kit from years back...
22 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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The first boat I built with help from my father was a Sterling Chris Craft Buccaneer. Not RC but tethered running with a Cox Baby Bee.
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📝 Question of the Day?
23 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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It was not only the cranes that were hydraulic, most of the ancillary equipment was as well. The warehouses were steel and brick built making them fireproof but the could not have fully overhung the dock as they would have fouled ships mast as many were still sailing ships at the time. That is the reason I chose A.
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📝 Hull sealing
24 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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Eze Kote with or without glass fibre tissue works well
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24 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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As I said, the only way is down. I don’t agree with the answer given but hey ho.
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📝 Interesting Robbe kit from years back...
24 days ago by 🇬🇧 EdW ( Commander)
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As a youngster I built both Sterling and Dumas kits.
Sterling provided great quality materials on excellent instructions/drawings
Dumas you had to use a lot of the wood as templates to make decent parts and the drawings left a lot to be desired.
Sterling provided great quality materials on excellent instructions/drawings
Dumas you had to use a lot of the wood as templates to make decent parts and the drawings left a lot to be desired.
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