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15 days ago by 🇬🇧 LazyFerret (
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Depending on your soldering skills, you could remove the pcb from the switch.
As the old switch is broken, carefully cut the terminals off the old switch, releasing the pcb, then either remove the terminal ends, by de-soldering them from the pcb, or to make life easier, solder 3 small lengths of wire from the new switch to the corisonding pcb cut terminals, and then slip a bit of heat shrink over the pcb to stop it electrically touching anything else in the handset.
I had to change 2 of my switches from the on/off, to on/middle/off type, and had to use a bit of veroboard to replicate the pcb on the extra switches.
As the old switch is broken, carefully cut the terminals off the old switch, releasing the pcb, then either remove the terminal ends, by de-soldering them from the pcb, or to make life easier, solder 3 small lengths of wire from the new switch to the corisonding pcb cut terminals, and then slip a bit of heat shrink over the pcb to stop it electrically touching anything else in the handset.
I had to change 2 of my switches from the on/off, to on/middle/off type, and had to use a bit of veroboard to replicate the pcb on the extra switches.
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📝 I Hate Painting!
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 LazyFerret ( Able Seaman)
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Can't you put "feature" over the blemish like spot lights, or life belt etc?
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📝 I Hate Painting!
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 LazyFerret ( Able Seaman)
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I was having problems where varnish meets paint on the hull, as the varnish does not like paint over it, & the paint won't dry with varnish over it. Basically after 2 coats of varnish and 2 coats of paint done over a week, I had a perfect finish which I was very happy with, but about 3 days after the final coat it started to react... after a lot of research, I found I had to paint the bottom of the hull, leave it 6 weeks, then varnish down to the paint, then wait another 6 weeks to put a thin stripe along the join to cover any imperfections.
Happy now, but there was a lot of grumping when I had to strip it all back for the second time.
I was having problems where varnish meets paint on the hull, as the varnish does not like paint over it, & the paint won't dry with varnish over it. Basically after 2 coats of varnish and 2 coats of paint done over a week, I had a perfect finish which I was very happy with, but about 3 days after the final coat it started to react... after a lot of research, I found I had to paint the bottom of the hull, leave it 6 weeks, then varnish down to the paint, then wait another 6 weeks to put a thin stripe along the join to cover any imperfections.
Happy now, but there was a lot of grumping when I had to strip it all back for the second time.
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📝 I Hate Painting!
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 LazyFerret ( Able Seaman)
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Wow, I read this & thought I must have typed it without knowing. I feel your pain. I have a boat built by my dad many years ago, & I am renovating it from years of sitting in top of a cabinet. Its a Billings kit & unfortunately the wood had dried out so much, there are lots of splits in the hull. So after methodically rubbing it back to bare wood, sorting it out, I am going through the exact problems with painting. Thank you for making me no longer feel alone in this issue.
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📝 Adding a Reverse to Forwards Only ESC?
4 months ago by 🇬🇧 LazyFerret ( Able Seaman)
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Assuming you are using normal DC motors, the easiest way I can see would need an extra channel to use a servo to swap the polarity of the wires to the motor. This could be done with 2 micro switches. It all depends on the currents drawn though.
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📝 Solder
11 months ago by 🇬🇧 LazyFerret ( Able Seaman)
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How old is your soldering iron tip, I find they age a lot quicker than solder. Like others I have many reels left over from my father, which I still use with no problem. Is the iron is too hot, it can cause the solder to ball up, as can a contamonated tip, like when someone has used it to melt plastic or burn wood!!!😊
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