jostro65 🇬🇧 Basic
Leading Seaman · 93 pts
Greenock, United Kingdom
Member since May 2025
Last online 6 days ago
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Scale modeller mostly, RC experience is limited to pre-built cars/planes/drones.
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“With age comes experience, with more age comes forgetting what you knew!”
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Last posted 10 days ago
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Advice welcome
Hi I all, Been a while getting back to this build but here goes. Just doing some fiddling to get the innards installed and balanced in the water. Aside from th…
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Re: Classic Water-Cooled Model Power Boat Engines.
I came to RC pretty late and it's mostly been leccy, but my first couple of planes were nitro, reading this and can almost taste the smoke again!
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When space runs out .....
Is there such a thing as "enough" for folks like us?
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When space runs out .....
Hi all, lack of space in the house means I am confined to the loft for my modelling. Along with the usual problems such as spray painting, which restricts my c…
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Pat QoD 13/07/25
I don't get on the forum every day but I do find your QotD posts quite interesting. Do I need to know what colour a particular bhoy is, or how fast a certain b…
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Re: Fuses
I have both a 1/35 Elco on the go as well as a 1/72 PT15. The Elco has a 2 brushless set-up so no fuses in there then. Just for fun in the smaller boat I'm act…
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Fuses
Thanks folks for taking the time to read and indeed reply on the topic of fuses. It seems it's probably a good thing to add them, costs very little in time and…
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Fuses
Hey all, Looking through some builds and seeing a lot of folk adding fuses to their leccy set-ups. Some Qs..... Is this a necessary step or dependant on your c…
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Elco update eventually
So things happen and life gets in the way and not managed much loft time lately but did get bit more time in on the Elco past week or so . Some sub-assemblies …
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Re: Unknown vessels
That twin engine looks lethal, wouldn't fancy trying to start the second engine whilst the first is running!!
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