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📝 Smoke generator - question
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📝 Smoke generator - question
3 days ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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LewZ, perhaps powered by a LiPO?? A lot of stuff nowadays can be "cordless" thanks to lipo batteries.
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📝 Smoke generator - question
3 days ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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DavidE, these are same technology as the ultrasonic home humidifiers. The white smoke is just a very fine mist of distilled water. I purchased several transducers, and a couple of ultrasonic driver boards from various Amazon vendors, they were all very disappointing...either difficult to get started, or not running very long, or ran once or twice for a very short time then quit. As I posted earlier, Garth at Confederation over in Burlington an hour west of us had one working literally for hours & hours on static display. I gave up on those, currently looking into the hot resistors that vaporize vegan glycerin on a fiberglas wick, glycerin which I got off Amazon.
And a $50 vaping unit , I bought a vape canister that has NO nicotine
And a $50 vaping unit , I bought a vape canister that has NO nicotine
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📝 Smoke generator - question
4 days ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Is AdBlue the same as DEF fluid? Over here the Americans are now allowing it NOT to be used to reduce the costs for farmers...remove the costly sensor
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📝 Smoke generator - question
5 days ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Wolle, regardless of that I wud like to hear how the Germans do it. We hav RAM pickups belching black smoke...1min of a RAM wud cause more environmental concern than a hundred models operating for 5 seasons.
I think it's referred to as "rollin' coal"
I think it's referred to as "rollin' coal"
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💬 Re: JUANITA STERN WHEELER
5 days ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Chug you might want to talk to the model truck guys
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📝 Smoke generator - question
5 days ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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I think many wud like copious black smoke
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📝 Smoke generator - question
5 days ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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I purchased a HengLong and a bottle of vegan glycerine...and I'm very disappointed
Previously I tried the ultrasonic disc's that spit fine water droplets...hard to tune, and they didn't last very long (failed). All off AMAZON. I was able to return that stuff. Kept the HengLong hoping for another try.
Hav tried incense, the sticks don't produce much and I'm looking now for the brown cones of my younger days, they will hav a larger burn zone so shud produce more smoke.
Bought a vape device but haven't figured out how to trigger it in a boat. Works good in my hand altho the duty cycle isn't anything to write home about.
My first trip to Hamilton Steam and Tech museum I saw an ultrasonic one working very well, it belongs to Garth who is a member here. Perhaps he'll see my post here, and comment further.
Previously I tried the ultrasonic disc's that spit fine water droplets...hard to tune, and they didn't last very long (failed). All off AMAZON. I was able to return that stuff. Kept the HengLong hoping for another try.
Hav tried incense, the sticks don't produce much and I'm looking now for the brown cones of my younger days, they will hav a larger burn zone so shud produce more smoke.
Bought a vape device but haven't figured out how to trigger it in a boat. Works good in my hand altho the duty cycle isn't anything to write home about.
My first trip to Hamilton Steam and Tech museum I saw an ultrasonic one working very well, it belongs to Garth who is a member here. Perhaps he'll see my post here, and comment further.
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📝 Robbe Atlantis Fttings
5 days ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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ThankYou EdW, that's a wonderful method, I will go that route next time I need a password.
Rod in Toronto, CAN
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📝 Robbe Atlantis Fttings
6 days ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Yes. If you hav a niece/nephew in their teens I suggest you get their assistance. You don't want to be having password discussions online with strangers.
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📝 Post-Scotland inspiration
9 days ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Morse Code for "M" is 2 dashes, pronounced dah-dah.
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📝 Loganville in now lit up
1 month ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Ron, your deck and mast details are very nicely executed ! ... Rod in Scarborough
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📝 Upcoming Projects
1 month ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Low-cost option is a ZippKits SPRINGER tug from Florida. Complete for around US$100 or so, not a huge loss if something drastic happens
Easy to assemble
Easy to assemble
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💬 Re: AIRBOAT No 2
1 month ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Pix are not really clear. Do you hav a static, close-up? Air prop is common for rescue boats, I wud really like to see your details.
Yours is much larger than anything I've seen up close
Yours is much larger than anything I've seen up close
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📝 How to secure acccess deck covers /hatches
1 month ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Bruce1946, I suggest you try ShoeGoo. I get mine at WalMart, in the shoe dept, on the rack where you find shoelaces and shoe polish. Or there is GOOP household cement.
If you attach with double-sided tape you may find the magnets so strong that they pull off the tape. There are vastly difference double-sided tapes out there.
To decrease the strength of magnets just put a disk of clear plastic on the mating surface. I use the plastic, clear, from the sandwich boxes from the deli.
Another option is velcro and it's great becuz you can vary the strength of the join just be using smaller or larger pieces of self-adhesive velcro from the dollar store (white or black, quite inexpensive)
These are not my own original thoughts, I've been in our hobby intensively for only 4yr and I learned these things from the cluster of mentors I hav encountered. Great hobby for us retired folk, for the friendship & camaraderie.
Rod of MMM in Toronto, Canada
If you attach with double-sided tape you may find the magnets so strong that they pull off the tape. There are vastly difference double-sided tapes out there.
To decrease the strength of magnets just put a disk of clear plastic on the mating surface. I use the plastic, clear, from the sandwich boxes from the deli.
Another option is velcro and it's great becuz you can vary the strength of the join just be using smaller or larger pieces of self-adhesive velcro from the dollar store (white or black, quite inexpensive)
These are not my own original thoughts, I've been in our hobby intensively for only 4yr and I learned these things from the cluster of mentors I hav encountered. Great hobby for us retired folk, for the friendship & camaraderie.
Rod of MMM in Toronto, Canada
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💬 Re: Vosper
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Garth there are quite a few of us eagerly awaiting the re-opening of Spencer's. LOL
.....Rod @ MMM/Bluffers
.....Rod @ MMM/Bluffers
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📝 My next challenge
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Ron, there is a elongated box to the left of the JRC radar radome. It's white, what is it?...Rod
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📝 Faulty Spektrum TX
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Rechargeable batteries hav a lower output voltage than alkaline, even right coming off the charger. A lot of electronic devices were designed to use alkaline and then the hobbyist thinking he/she will save $$$ by using rechargeable, will substitute nicads and learn the hard way. Also, rechargeable hav no where near the ampere-hour capacity of an alkaline
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📝 The tools/equipment of the ship modeler.
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Cash, an excellent list ! Thank you.....Rod at Metro Marine Modellers in Toronto, Canada
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💬 Re: RC Semi (Segment 2)
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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LewZ I love your drawings...starting 4yr ago
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📝 How to reduce roll in a warship model
2 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Ronald, thanks for the sketch. I hav a tug that "wallows in a heavy dew". ( My Dad served in RCN in WW2 and that's what he said abt corvettes. ) I think I might follow your sketch.
Originally it had a floodable chamber but after one rollover I just increased the solid ballast but then it rolled again. I think the fire tower on the superstructure is just too much sail. And the solid ballast probably need to be secured even lower in the bilge.
Originally it had a floodable chamber but after one rollover I just increased the solid ballast but then it rolled again. I think the fire tower on the superstructure is just too much sail. And the solid ballast probably need to be secured even lower in the bilge.
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💬 Re: Dole Aztec cont.
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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I am intrigued by the magnetic clamping fixtures. At 78y.o. I am nowhere near becoming a welder but I did purchase a kit of small locking pliers and several magnetic clamping fixtures quite similar to yours (PRINCESS AUTO, a Canadian retail "consumer" chain)
What do you use as a "surface plate" ? I assume it's ferrous otherwise you wudnt bother with the magnetic fixtures bits. Right??
BTW Happy New Year !! ..... Rod in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
What do you use as a "surface plate" ? I assume it's ferrous otherwise you wudnt bother with the magnetic fixtures bits. Right??
BTW Happy New Year !! ..... Rod in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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📝 SHARK ESC Brushless
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Yes, vaguely looks like a fast electric. He shud find out if he has a fast-electric run site before he proceeds. Nothing worse than having a boat & nowhere to run it. Couple of MMM gents run fast electrics in a unique & specialized FE club near Alliston...we are talking 2-minute runtimes
In the early-2000s I bought several Graupner "ARTR" kits, one left...not truly a fast electric as defined nowadays, she uses a 540-brushed and 1 or 2 six-cell NiMH sticks, lasts abt 6-8 minutes so not really quick or long-lasting on the water.
Fast electrics evoke anxiety among those of us with tugs, freighters, long warships, even if he was to run clockwise round Spencer's, NPSq, MLSq. Occasionally someone runs a quick electric at Bluffers but not usually in/around the slower boats.
In the early-2000s I bought several Graupner "ARTR" kits, one left...not truly a fast electric as defined nowadays, she uses a 540-brushed and 1 or 2 six-cell NiMH sticks, lasts abt 6-8 minutes so not really quick or long-lasting on the water.
Fast electrics evoke anxiety among those of us with tugs, freighters, long warships, even if he was to run clockwise round Spencer's, NPSq, MLSq. Occasionally someone runs a quick electric at Bluffers but not usually in/around the slower boats.
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📝 Last xmas sailing of the year
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Hermank we are envious of course. It is 3C here, a cold rain, 5pm and dark already.
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💬 Re: Krick Paula | Work / Crane Boat
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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72cm=28-3/8" for our America-anchored friends.
How much will it weigh with battery installed ??
A respectable L.O.A., easily transportable
How much will it weigh with battery installed ??
A respectable L.O.A., easily transportable
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📝 8 Channel Transmitter
3 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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I hav purchased several MICROZONE transmitter/receiver pairs from AMAZON over the last 3 to 4yr and they hav served very well. They require only 4 x AA cells, which last April thru November no problem and i sail every week at one site or another. (I do put in new batteries at the start of the next season.)🤗
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📝 Animal and nature photos to enjoy.
4 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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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
4 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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....admiring the skeg....👍
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📝 Early Radio Control Experiences
5 months ago by 🇨🇦 RodC ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Zooma please note
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📝 Fairey Swordsman Plans
5 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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