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Orca
Nearly complete just in process of fitting out, will be ready for first sail on club opening for season
Rogal118
4 months ago
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Trent lifeboat
Slipway model. Rebuilt after being damaged, needs new radio gear and motors.
Rogal118
4 months ago
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Portbalne
portgarth type harbour tug. reworked and refurbished with new superstructure and bridge, renamed "Portbalne" as Balnemoor is its home pond. was acquired with Twin electric motors and full electrics in situ. working off 12v wet battery.bow thruster off of 6v battery nozzle "tank" steering making for very manoeuvrable boat
Rogal118
1 year ago
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Brave Borderer
well on the way, a few more parts to fabricate, but slowly getting everything together ready for the final push. Keep calm and carry on.
Finally finished if you can ever say that.
Rogal118
3 years ago
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AZIZ
not built by myself, fitted radio gear had 1st test friday 22-3-19 works well steers great added quite a load of lead ballast to get her down to waterline. desperately needs a bow thruster fitting as cannot turn tight enough due to length
Rogal118
4 years ago
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(Tug Boat) Cervia
My other nearly complete project, I have hundreds of photos of the full size boat berthed in ramsgate harbour. Built entirely from scratch , made my own hull plug and mold, fibre glass hull and part teak planked deck will complete this soon to sail in summer (Motor: Decaperm x) (10/10)
Update16-4-20 99% finished,are they ever
Rogal118
4 years ago
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(Tug Boat) Yorkshireman
Just purchased from retired sailor,stripping paint and all fittings,giving complete overall first sail date hopefully 15-3-19 (Motor: Decaperm x2) (ESC: x3?) (10/10)
Updated 16-4-20 with photos,all ready for life when back to normal and can get to pond
Rogal118
4 years ago
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start of new boat build "ORCA"
Well a decision was made quite a while ago as to what the next project was to be. At the time i was only half way through the "Brave Borderer" build, but you cant beat planning ahead and having something to look forward to. With 3 tugs, Aziz, Yorkshireman and Cervia plus the Brave in the harbour, I felt like a scale change, something not as fiddly so decided on the Orca at 1/16th scale. being a lot chunkier and not as fine detailed i felt a challenge ahead.
First step was to source a set of plans. these were from a guy in New Mexico, Patrick Tritle. An email to enquire the cost and an order placed, a week later they arrived. 4 large A2 sheets well drawn and highly detailed.
a list of components was made up to get me started and decisions made as to prop size, shaft length and motor, batteries etc that would be needed.
i find this part of the process as interesting as the actual build, with all the investigation into what's available and in stock. i have had excellent service from "Leeds Model shop" and "Cornwall models" and soon had the parts required to start the build
Rogal118
1 year ago
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Yorkshireman refit
Now once the rear decking was fixed in place I moved on to the centre deck section. I kept the original deck as mentioned earlier, this fitted ok and had all the railing holes in position. I scraped
all the paint off and recoated with fresh while it was off as this was easier to rework. New supports were made for the deck and extra plastic angle strips were added to stiffen the deck up.
The deck was then fitted and new combing around the main access area glued in place. This served 2 jobs, 1 to stop water entering the hull from off the deck area and 2 to help locate the main superstructure that was to be left loose for access to the radio gear, battery and motors.
The bow decking was then renewed and fitted plus the upstand joining the two decks, forward of the superstructure
The next job was to use the old bow bulwarks as templates to produce new left and right hand sides.offering them up a couple of times before being happy with the fit. The bow was then fitted plus a couple of bulwark ribs to strengthen the sections while the glue set.Then extra ribs were added as the original and this strengthened the whole structure no end
Rogal118
3 years ago
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Yorkshireman refit
Well it's been a year since I last updated my blog whilst sat on the beach in Kos Greece. Just haven't had the time, but have of late and have actually nearly finished the refit.
My last job that I have been putting off was one of those fiddly little finishing off jobs of the finer detail. Cleaning 5 layers of paint from the bulkhead lights taken from around the original superstructure.
Started yesterday and got all twelve cleaned, then this morning consulted the plans for shape and positioning. I used .8mm piano wire and bent to shape. Then superglued the bulkhead lights in position. I then found a piece of red fine tube from the top of a "WD40" oil can and cut into 1mm pieces forming small "O" shapes, I then cut a piece out to make them into a "C", then clipped these into position to form what looked like small conduit fixing clips.
Next to make was the 2 junction boxes, this time I used slightly larger tube about 2mm dia. and cut into 2 MM lengths,I notched the bottom to fit over the wire and glued in place. A 1 MM hole was drilled in the side facing downwards and added a short piece of wire glued in this hole to represent a take off feed to the lower lights.
All in all, a job I was not looking forward to doing, turned out to be quite a rewarding little 5 hours spent. Hope you agree and maybe gives you some inspiration to finish those little "put off" jobs. Because having read a lot of the blogs on this brilliant site, has certainly given me the confidence and inspiration to do what I do now.
Thanks everyone, here's to contented modelling and keep safe.
Roger
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3 years ago
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π¬ Re: orca build part5
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Yes it is tight, but there is enough room if you keep the rudder to one side so the arm has enough throw to give a good rudder movement.good luck.
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Hi there. Just a point that has occured to me in my blog regarding the prop shaft and the positioning of the motor, as it is one of the early build decitions i did not realise that the motor fits in the middle of the main cabin. If at a later date you want to fit out the cabin as i have done. I had to fit a longer prop shaft so as to move the motor out of sight into the forward cabin. I did not wish to disturb the outer shaft as it was fixed to good. These thoughts might be worth pondering over to save messing about later as i did. Hindsight is a wonderful thing
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Hi there. If it helps the first couple of pages of my βOrca Buildβ blog and the first 5 photos might help as I took photos at most stages of my build. So hope this gives some inspiration to dive in and start. Donβt hesitate to ask for more info as I donβt blog every detail and only got to page 10. There must be at least another 10 to finish,I have loads of photos and still shots from the film etc. what I did find out though was they used 3 boats when filming so some details are different in some scenes.but this helps dispel the rivet counters who comment on something not being correct, and of course gives us builders licence to interpret details our way. Good luck and contented modelling
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Whoops, thanks for the update.
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I do the quiz mainly on iPad but sometimes on my phone. Todays question flummoxed me, so I googled it out of interest but none of the guys owned the yacht Octopus. but the % was showing some guys were correct so I guessed and got it wrong.
I was not bothered I just put I down to the boat changing hands etc.
Now the point I have took to writing is Iβve just picked my phone up and opened the web site up and the question is still live, but with a separate set of answers. I thought I must have finally gone gaga, so opened the web site on my iPad and found the answer are different
Iβm not bothered about the quiz itβs only for fun ,but is this a web hack, problem???!!!
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π orca and the shark
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π Orca complete with crew
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π Orca
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Thanks for the interest and comments. I made my own barrels on my myford lathe from a broken shovel shaft,see photo
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π Orca a maiden voyage
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Video of my first pond outing with orca
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π Orca
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π Orca
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Hi there. Thanks for your interest. the 3 rods I scratch built from my bit box, I will detail the making of these in my upcoming blog
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π Orca
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Hi Steve watch this space. The shark, tick, the barrels, tick,the connection, tick. The technicality is sorted, just needs assembling
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π Trent lifeboat
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π Free Christmas Prize Draw!
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Wow, you seafarers. Great saying, Im even more confused now. Im going to take my new socks off now and put them on my hands, ill use them as mittens when walking the dogs!!!.
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Wow, just received and opened my draw prize this evening, perfect fit for a βland lubberβ
Thank you Rogal.
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π COUPLINGS
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what a brilliant idea
I've just purchased a bonded HD coupling to swap over from the mechanical monstrosity that rattled like an old diesel engine in my ORCA build. but i still notice a vibration in the shaft. on further investigation i have found that the bonding of the rubber to metal of the three parts of the coupling are not inline. although i took great care to line the prop shaft to the motor shaft in all planes, this defeats all my own hard work.
but within a couple of days of my disappointment along comes your genius idea. i hope you don't mind me trying this system out for myself, as i have the splined brass end joints all I need is some silicone tubing.
a couple of questions 1st though
1, once the silicone tube is fitted over the splines and because of the diameter of these splines quite a large cavity is left inside the tube, do you fit a smaller tube inside to stop it collapsing under torque?.
2, you say you will zip tie the tubing to help grip the splines. will this not cause imbalance with the zip tie locking catch being on one side, and especially one being at each end, or are they opposite each other, to counteract themselves.
or, in the end, am I worrying to much.
Regards Roger
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π Lead acid to lipo
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I will make it to the best of my ability. I will make parts a few times until right, it tends to hold me up sometimes. I'm not a perfectionist by any means but I have to satisfy myself at least. im certainly not a rivet counter. I must say though I do stand in awe at some of the creations made by our fellow modellers.if I can be half as talented I'd be happy. I served my apprenticeship in the Sheffield steel industry and qualified as a master patternmaker. Using mahogany.pine jelutong, metal and fiber glassed resin for patterns and models.mind that was a few years ago now. Thanks for your help once more, regards Rogal.
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Great info Doug. When someone knows what they are explaining it makes understanding a lot easier .Thankyou so much for all your input.Roger
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Hi dave I've been using the 3s in my Brave Borderer for about a year now and when purchased also bought same make charger,spektrum was make with discharge , storage, and charge facility plus lots of other monitoring of cells etc. I was weary at first but feal confident to use lipos now.thanks for your input. Roger
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π Lead acid to lipo
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Hi RowenThanks for the reply, it wasn't until later that I realised the voltage of a 3s myself. 2s will be plenty. I was just not sure in my own mind I had the right components, after initialy going down the lead acid route.then wanting to change at this later stage. The ORCA was never a speed boat, although if it had have been a bit faster the dam shark wouldn't have caught it.mind you there wouldn't have been much of a film then!. 1 point I didn't mention in my initial post is that the motor is geared down a ratio of 2.5 to1.
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π Lead acid to lipo
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Can anyone offer some advice. I have picked up where I left off with my build of the ORCA. I had intended to use a 6volt lead acid battery but due to locating the motor more forward than anticipated I do not have room for this type of battery. So my question is can I swap for a 3s 2200mAh lipo, simply by moving the jumpers on the hobbywing quicrun 1060 brushed esc to the lipo mode. The motor is a brushed MFA 919d. 4.5-15V D.C. and the receiver is a futuba R3106GF 6 channel type. I think I will be OK but am not to experienced with this type of set up. So if anyone can set me straight i would be happy .Thanks Rogal
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hi everyone
Recently i had forgot how to post a video and add a link to my post.
i searched the site but could not find the answer (probably looked in the wrong place anyway).
this is what i did
I opened youtube and signed into my account.
clicked on upload video.
found the file in my gallery and uploaded,
the youtube page shows a bar overlaid on the file as it uploads and then says when it is completed
then i clicked on the video to play and it started.
underneath the playing video it said COPY LINK
I clicked this and the link was copied to the clipboard.
I then opened the model boat web site and found my original post and clicked EDIT
At the bottom of my text i pasted the link.(Ctrl V) and reposted the amended post.
i hope this is understood,if not or needs tweaking let me know
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thanks for you reply
yes have to agree with you, as my earlier post the knocking is sortable but the whining is i think the esc, which i don't think i can do anything about!. although i may sound proof the removeable hatch etc as it does cause a bit of echo and amplification like a guitar sound box. may quiet things down a bit. it worked on my Brave Borderer, to some extent.
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Thanks Martin
much appreciated, what a relief, she works well im very happy, although i did pick up on a knocking, sounded like a big end had gone. it turned out to be wear and movement in the steering nozzle shaft, which when in the water the resistance to the water was causing the prop to catch on the inside of the starboard nozzle. another little job to keep me busy.
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Hi everyone, can someone have a look at my original post for the portbalne. I have added a link to the video on YouTube.so would be grateful if someone can post and let me know if it works.if it does I will post saying how I did it. Here's hoping. Thanks Rogal.
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π portbalne video
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finally got to the pond today, only 2 of us had it all to ourselves. my fellow club member captained while I operated the camera. i had got used to the tank steering and the use of the bow thruster, but not together. john was showing me how his tug with a Voith drive would track side ways, I said I don't think the Portbalne will do that even though it is very manoeuvrable he then set about to demonstrate how to do it. as the video shows
help!! I cannot remember how to upload a video??
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