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💬 Re: Sea Commander part VI
5 days ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 (
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Finally working on this ship. All hand cut out wood. I appreciate the laser cut models. Ok Rc it with outboard electric motor. Plans looked easy enough but it isn’t. I’ll fiberglass the Holland maybe add mahogany skin to deck. Plenty room fir electronics in midsection if I make roof removable.
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📝 Batterys
1 month ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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If u can get Li fe batteries less dangerous but a slight but bigger. But can dispose in regular trash n won’t explode
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📝 Spektrum DX6i auxiallary chanel.
1 month ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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This is a relay switch that can turn on it off smoke, music, pumps, lights basically two relays that plug in a Servo port. Clean n cheap on eBay.
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📝 Spektrum DX6i auxiallary chanel.
1 month ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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In settings each switch position has a setting right now you have switch on n off doing sane thing. Go to the switch and see on screen it says 100 or a number then switch the physical switch It will have same number but dial it a bunch so Servo arm moves. The physical switch when flipped will move as you set. In flaps it goes 100% + or 100% - spectrum manual is on line fyi if u don’t have it. Look up setting up flaps. Also the wing has to be set fir flaps and the switch you use assigned fir it. Manual will show you. It’s easy. I bought this item it plugs in as a Servo but has two relays the from centered will flip. Easier to use
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2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Might try usa scale shipyard
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📝 What Radio do you use?
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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📝 Part built boat
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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I would be interested in building It I have built similar kits
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💬 Re: King of the Mississippi
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Funny I have one fir sale on eBay
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💬 Re: Building The Police Launch From The Wooden Model Boat Company
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Are you cutting out deck under cabin to access inner hull. It looks like you could add Radio Control easily and motor with access by taking cabin off?
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📝 Back on east coast usa selling off some boats
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Back home again in Massachusetts from California. Went to Grammys n then got RSV virus. Sick fir weeks but got to hobby shop before it so it wasn’t boring. Brought back some boats n stuff. Going back to work on Creole Queen river boat. I put some stuff on eBay as I’ll never get to build them. Found a Robert E Lee plastic riverboat kit with no instructions should be fun to build. Hhag5196 is my eBay all funds will go towards more hobby stuff. The Queen is up to putting railings on all decks. Motor n Servo sorted out n running. Lighting and paint touch up will be last before pool launch to ballast it.
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📝 SEAPORT a.k.a. HENG LONG TUG rebuild
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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When I’m home next week if I can I’ll see what I removed n how that parts gets removed? My boat worked ok but I wanted to convert to regular RC n a brushless motor with a typical rudder Servo. It is really dusty from years of sanding on work bench.
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📝 Custom figures
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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These are people I’m looking for and maybe some barrels too
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📝 Custom figures
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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More fir Creole Queen paddle steam boat. About Ho sized maybe 20 pieces?
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📝 SEAPORT a.k.a. HENG LONG TUG rebuild
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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I have same one at home in MA. It was collecting dust before I left fir west coast visit I had it apart. I’ll replace the guts with 2.4 ghz Rc when back in fe weeks. Repaint a bit n clean it. Could be a nice boat with an update n better ballasting. Let me know what your doing on yours?
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📝 two motors to one reciever socket
4 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Look at each esc as an aileron you can set up one in aileron channel n one in aux channel then use the various mix features. That way you can set each channel using the reverse Servo switch feature. I’m using Spektrum so I know this works. That way you can have one firward n one revers steering using motors And mix forward backward It might use a helicopter mix to do it all. So elevator stick centered n like a flap or eleven mix put the flap up or down. In this case the Servo or esc will go forward when stick pushed and reversed when pulled. At same time the esc acting like the Servo can make one go right n other left with the stick like an aileron. Just think of the esc as a Servo. So one stick steers n controls speed of motors. While the rudder stick controls the boat rudder. Hope this made sense
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📝 Use Tamiya white putty on RC boat abs/styrene hull
4 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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It can be ok on boats but still needs a coat of paint on it. I’ve used the putty you patch walls with. It’s the one that is pink and drys tan. It sands well but I coat with paint or even CA glue. It’s not waterproof but decent coating it can last. There is always the Bondo filler that is in a squeeze tube too.
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📝 Glue.
4 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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On fillets I add micro balloons to epoxy as filler. It helps keep it from dripping a bit until it starts to harden. I use 5 min stuff.
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📝 advice on which flysky transmitter to use
4 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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I guess on this side of pond I see futaba, jr and spektrum transmitters. I have had spektrums since they first came out. It holds all my planes n boats in memory. New receivers are easy binding. For aircraft n Helis it has great features for mixing, flaps, video and more. You can desensitize the sticks so they are not as sensitive near center. It has enough channel switches as well. I use it on my submarine, sailboat, paddle boat n speed boats. Never used flysky so I thought I’d give spektrum a plug here.
I found this in Los Angeles burbank hobby shop fir $20. Box ripped but all parts in it. I screwed up the motor pinion gear. I may have to shelve it n take the gear box home to east coast n fix it. Or replace with standard motor n Servo setup. As building it would do figure 8’s. We had great time at Grammys n after party Sunday. Met a lot of UK residents who build boats too there.
I found this in Los Angeles burbank hobby shop fir $20. Box ripped but all parts in it. I screwed up the motor pinion gear. I may have to shelve it n take the gear box home to east coast n fix it. Or replace with standard motor n Servo setup. As building it would do figure 8’s. We had great time at Grammys n after party Sunday. Met a lot of UK residents who build boats too there.
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📝 Adhesive for Clear Plastic Windows
4 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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I use white Elmer’s glue at times Aldo if I have a small window like a porthole I use the glue as a window the clear Elmer’s dries transparent. I also found one of the goo glued that worked on my Creole Queen plastic windows. There is a CA fir clear plastic that works too
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💬 Re: Windfarm crew transfer vessel (CTV), Outer Limits
4 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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The wind farm boat is great.?I’m not a fan of the wind farm. It’s a rip off to Somerset MA. They lost two big power plants which raised local taxes and lost local jobs. I tried to put a Eco friendly power plant in there. The political hacks favored the wind farm termination at that site. It makes no jobs or helps taxes or even lowers local energy prices for the town. It screwed over the town big time. However, the boat you’re showing looks like a good project. Can you name it Somerset in honor of the town?
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📝 NiMH from hell
4 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Google it n call them if possible
I heard ammo boxes work well too. I like the other Lipos that don’t use liquids. They are made by Sony, BYD and others. Usually by used in tools. They are a little heavier but are safer n can be put in safely in a landfill. I has some A123 batteries given to me to test for RC. They look like a C or D carbon battery in size. They started to catch on then went away. We used to get an electric cordless drill n take batteries out of them. I thought they woukd do great in cars we tested n some electric gliders but seem to have gone from scene
I heard ammo boxes work well too. I like the other Lipos that don’t use liquids. They are made by Sony, BYD and others. Usually by used in tools. They are a little heavier but are safer n can be put in safely in a landfill. I has some A123 batteries given to me to test for RC. They look like a C or D carbon battery in size. They started to catch on then went away. We used to get an electric cordless drill n take batteries out of them. I thought they woukd do great in cars we tested n some electric gliders but seem to have gone from scene
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📝 NiMH from hell
4 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Just saw this from hobby shop near me for Lipos maybe avail in UK too?
Says it filters smoke n soot if battery caught fire I like the product name
Says it filters smoke n soot if battery caught fire I like the product name
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📝 NiMH from hell
4 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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First it was vaporized except fir a stain on the floor. Second still married. Very tolerant but never lets me forget I almost burned house down Has a long memory. The pic of the only evidence left of battery. Firgot I had a second batt pack sitting next to it so two 6 cell 5A batteries exploded wirk bench caught then all the wooden modems n stuff went next. Pic old wood beans from fire n new one in front. No smoke smell ever. Dry ice pellets shot at wood cleaned it n removed smoke smell. About 40 ft circle of flooring vaporized. It was major fire. Also don’t use the plastic shelving racks They melt inward n encapsulate contents. So many motors gone no way to bust them out. Live n learn. Pic of paddelwheeler progress. I’ll pic it back up next month when I return
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📝 NiMH from hell
4 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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We moved out of house fir 6 months I was able to be the contractor overseer. I was there every day n coukd take care of issues in real time. We rented gir 6 months n had to be back in house by then. We did it and went home a day early. All belongings went to warehouse n was cleaned n like new. All clothes got cleaned including delacate costumes n props from my collection. I redesigned house interior at that time too. We had new wood floors put in, new appliances. In firecc Cc area they cleaned with dry ice pellet processes then sealed the wood. New wood added where needed. No smoke smell. The entire basement was stripped bare n a new one built. Added bathrooms n living space, new porch. 6 months only because I was on the job every day. It would have been a year normally. I wasn’t allowed gir a couple years to bring batteries in house Wife’s rules but eventually they returned
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📝 NiMH from hell
4 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Lithium batteries LiPo when they go it can send flames as far as a few feet or more. Yeah I did it. Had 5000ma stack charged it. This was before safety shut offs on chargers . When I accidentally put this fully charged battery back on charge an hour after it started a big house fire in basement. $500,000 dollars in home damage. Luckily no one hurt but lost half first floor flooring n the copper pipes were like spaghetti drooped. Electrical wiring gone. 6 months to fix All walls taken out on first floor, new plumbing n wiring all floors plus smoke smell had to be processed n burnt Timbers replaced. Don’t fool around with batteries don’t leave unattended too
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💬 Re: SS Ernest Bazin
5 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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What a cool idea. I bet it could be worth building a prototype to see it work. With rollers with scoops on them you could make it go sideways eliminating a tug fir docking on a large full scale version.
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📝 Update
5 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Have main deck finally glued. Started painting but it keeps soaking up the paint. Had to sand drips n repaint. All cabins sections are built, as well as paddle wheel. I put the modified belt gear on the paddle wheel. So once I paint it I can try the belt n see where motor goes. I added clear plastic to windows on back second deck. I also tried my hand at making curtains. Made the boom assembly and painted the wood boom. A lot of curtains to make. Still need railings n paint paint paint. A lot more work to do. I’ll post the next update. I also bought a Dumas Crocket ship. That will be the summer build. Assuming this one is done. That should be it fir building fir this year. Cheers
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📝 Any idea of the maker of this large model tug
5 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Built this one but think it was caldercraft. It was on display at a shop in Salem MA. Unfortunately the place went out of business n the model lost. Loved making it. Great kit with hood details
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📝 Wanted
5 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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Never heard of Taycol before n was interested in its history. Quick google I found the company web site. Very interesting and from the 1800’s. Also found places specializing in selling them. I didn’t find ships or submarines for sale. They do need oil on commutator badly to last longer n cause less interference with radios. Newer motors are around but if you want old time authentic stuff it’s out there. I went from DC motors to AC long ago fir weight n power fir aircraft models. Guys check out the company web site I took a snap of the google results
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📝 Wanted
5 months ago by 🇺🇸 Hhager2 ( Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class)
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I have a lot of DC motors 300-600 sized. They were fir mostly aircraft but a motor is a motor. The larger esc fir cars can do DC motors n accommodate liPo n micas batteries too. I used that combo with a 600 sized motor on my Aluka sub. It isn’t the length of boat as much as weight to determine motor. Just pay postage I can send a couple in a box
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