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📝 Animal and nature photos to enjoy.
4 days ago by 🇨🇦 RodC (
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Very nice launch cradle. If its still sitting there in the morning i might put it in my car before i search for the owner.🤔
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📝 Mary Ann 472
9 days ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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....admiring the skeg....👍
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📝 Early Radio Control Experiences
1 month ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Zooma please note
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📝 Fairey Swordsman Plans
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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There is a small cluster of guys in MMM who simply adore this style of pleasure vessel.....i hav brought your post to their attention.
I hav found a nearby photoshop who does excellent work enlarging or downsizing engineering drawings. We may ask to borrow your finds🤔
I hav found a nearby photoshop who does excellent work enlarging or downsizing engineering drawings. We may ask to borrow your finds🤔
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📝 Ron in Scotland
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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That NORTH CARR lightship is very interesting, i would like to build something along the same lines. I dont think we hav any lightships here (Canada). Do you hav any supplementary pix?
For our "light up the night" events here at Spencers Pond (Burlington) & Lakefront Promenade (Mississauga) i built a floating offshore rig & hav just started a lighthouse on a (floating) island. The lightkeeper's mansion is a cottage-like birdfeeder (close to G-scale), from Princess Auto. That saves a lot of structure building. The lighthouse is built primarily from bits of wooden items from DOLLARAMA. I shall edit to post pictures after they are both assembled.
The offshore rig is based on the tiny picture of a rig on a model boat pond somewhere in UK, I dont recall where, its at least a year since i captured it.
I looked at pix of a dozen lighthouses we hav on Lake Huron & freelanced it. Shall hav a pulsating LED beacon to simulate a rotating light.
For our "light up the night" events here at Spencers Pond (Burlington) & Lakefront Promenade (Mississauga) i built a floating offshore rig & hav just started a lighthouse on a (floating) island. The lightkeeper's mansion is a cottage-like birdfeeder (close to G-scale), from Princess Auto. That saves a lot of structure building. The lighthouse is built primarily from bits of wooden items from DOLLARAMA. I shall edit to post pictures after they are both assembled.
The offshore rig is based on the tiny picture of a rig on a model boat pond somewhere in UK, I dont recall where, its at least a year since i captured it.
I looked at pix of a dozen lighthouses we hav on Lake Huron & freelanced it. Shall hav a pulsating LED beacon to simulate a rotating light.
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💬 Re: Trawler
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Garth, you can sail with us tmrw evening in the therapy pool in Mississauga , 6:15-7:15pm. Steve M. & Paul C. hav the details & we are hoping a few gents from Confederation will show up to join us
Its warm, humid, & out of the biting cold wind.
Its warm, humid, & out of the biting cold wind.
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📝 Frustrating tis absolutely Frustrating
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Sometimes you just have to wander around the boat yard. I wanted to fit GM DSS radomes on a couple of relatively modern tugboats and other work boots. I was at bluffers in Scarborough the other day and found this derelict Radar Arch. For the radome i used a KINDER SURPRISE
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📝 Frustrating tis absolutely Frustrating
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Nowadays everybody is just in "chase the money" mode, if there is no $ in it for them, they are not interested in talking with you or helping
Quite a shift in attitude from the days when Mitsubishi sent me a stack of drawings, i wanted to build a model of the most popular twin engine drug-runner
Quite a shift in attitude from the days when Mitsubishi sent me a stack of drawings, i wanted to build a model of the most popular twin engine drug-runner
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📝 She broke my boat: People don't listen to "HANDS OFF"
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Good Morning, Lew ! Where did you purchase the "skeleton crew"??
Our dollaramas are full of inexpensive items that look great on the water, especially strings of LED lighting that run off a pair of alkaline AA's.
The offerings vary with the seasons. The day after AllHallowsEve we will be met with Christmas stuff and on December 27th they will hav the Valentines Day stuff on offer.
My aquacraft bristol bay trawler from 2002, complete with $2.25 of LED light string
Our dollaramas are full of inexpensive items that look great on the water, especially strings of LED lighting that run off a pair of alkaline AA's.
The offerings vary with the seasons. The day after AllHallowsEve we will be met with Christmas stuff and on December 27th they will hav the Valentines Day stuff on offer.
My aquacraft bristol bay trawler from 2002, complete with $2.25 of LED light string
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📝 Dickie harbour tug
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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What is that orange thing sticking out of the bottom of the SPECTRUM tx??
For young kids i buy the $60 BASS PRO boat that uses 6-AAs, has a 2-stick controller which has spring-loaded throttle & rudder sticks & differential steering.
For young kids i buy the $60 BASS PRO boat that uses 6-AAs, has a 2-stick controller which has spring-loaded throttle & rudder sticks & differential steering.
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📝 Sprite
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Lew, is this Florida?
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3 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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In Canada addressed ad-mail is a great income stream for our postoffice...or as you call it, "junk mail".
Businesses pay less than 1st class letter postage, but they get a volume discount.🤔
Businesses pay less than 1st class letter postage, but they get a volume discount.🤔
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📝 Sprite
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Thanks Bob. I'm oldfashioned in that i actually handwrite letters & send them in the mail. I also write cheques, do calligraphy, & surprise people with gifts in their mailbox.
My ex-wife lives in farm country & actually mails me fresh produce which is very inexpensive at the farm stands.
My ex-wife lives in farm country & actually mails me fresh produce which is very inexpensive at the farm stands.
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📝 Sprite
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Our postal system is 99% shutdown by labour strife, so nobody is getting anything...unless you are entitled to a social assistance cheque...the Union has agreed to continue delivering those.
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3 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Zomma/Bob...just be thankful that you hav a functioning postal service (cost of postage here in Canada is moot right now)🤔
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📝 2nd voyage on Lake Paterno of the 1:60 scale model of a schooner-armed steam gunboat, assisted by a
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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My opinion? I dont care for the distraction of music in ANY hobby-related video.
Also, dont phone me if you keep the tv or radio on in the background...even tho i am a very skilled Amateur Radio Operator who can separate signals from each other & from noise, its difficult to separate the two streams of audio info coming into my ears.
No, i dont hav a hearing problem (was just tested, there is nothing wrong with my hearing).
Also, dont phone me if you keep the tv or radio on in the background...even tho i am a very skilled Amateur Radio Operator who can separate signals from each other & from noise, its difficult to separate the two streams of audio info coming into my ears.
No, i dont hav a hearing problem (was just tested, there is nothing wrong with my hearing).
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📝 Falkirk Wheel
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Goodmorning ! Its 2am here. I think you meant that it joins TWO canal systems.🤗
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📝 Falkirk Wheel
4 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Ronald, thankyou for posting this. Reminds me very much of the Peterborough "Liftlock" in function altho not in appearance.....Rod👍
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💬 Re: Canadian Coast guard 44 Lifeboat
4 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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As of a few recent Spencers events someone said clockwise pattern. Near the end of the event last weekend a few gents wanted to run faster-electrics so everybody pulled their warships out.
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📝 Interesting Robbe kit from years back...
4 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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In the early 1960s i went thru a succession of BabeBee .o49. Cox also made a .020 with integral tank/firewall-mount. The Cox .010 was beam-mount,required a separate fuel tank. The Cox GoldenBee 049 had a slightly larger integral tank than the BabeBee so wud run abt 5min compared with the BabeBee running 3min. Several of the Cox ready-to-fly plastic controlline planes had 049 engines with dual ports machined into the cylinder walls, they produced more power than the BabeBee but were not sold as separate powerplants under a different model name.
Then i discovered "women" & control-line flying took a backseat.......
Then i discovered "women" & control-line flying took a backseat.......
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📝 Harbor Freight Tools
4 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Canada has PRINCESS AUTO...everything from tiny metric & SAE hex wrenches to motorcycle lifts & folding carts. And lots of smaller things...for our hobbies.
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📝 Ron in Scotland
4 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Wolle, what is that angular manmade structure reaching out into the water??
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📝 Ron in Scotland
4 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Ron, we hav several Clyde Puffers "devotees" among the MetroMarineModellers...any pics wud be appreciated if you venture...Rod
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💬 Re: Club Event
4 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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I see my drilling platform & my Talacre freighter ! Thank you Garth !
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💬 Re: Another Springer tug!!
4 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Cashrc, when you say you "silver solder" it , are you referring to the silver soldering that welders sometimes do, or do you mean soldering with, say, a 40 to 60 Watt iron using electronic solder containing 3% silver??
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📝 Epoxy over paint does it work?
4 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Most of the silicone sealers smell like vinegar whilst curing. Those fumes are deadly to electronics. There is one version intended for electronics, sorry but i cant recall the name tho. Next time i am in at my supplier i will look it up & edit this post.
I used it for 20yr when i was a calibration tech repairing NASA-quality RF front ends incl 2.4 GHz, & hi-end digital multimeters.
I used it for 20yr when i was a calibration tech repairing NASA-quality RF front ends incl 2.4 GHz, & hi-end digital multimeters.
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📝 Power Saws for Cutting Wood for Models
5 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Greg i wud appreciate pix of your TrimTramp as i do recall the Beaver brand & that model name but i cant recall what it looked like.....cheers, Rod
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📝 Lines plan
5 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Thankyou Ronald...now i seem to recall something called "lofting"🤗
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📝 Lines plan
5 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Ok, what is a "lines plan"??
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💬 Re: USS Melvin
6 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Garth, at least at SPENCERS its unlikely to become a total loss in 5" of water. A very safe venue in that respect.
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