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Hi SS, like people there are different ideas/facts. There are rival A.I's and soon they will start breeding and then they will turn on us! Terminator was a glympse of the future be warned.
I am worried for different reasons what has happened to Titanic answers and questions, like:- How many funnels did the 4 funnel Titanic have?
Worried of Watford.
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📝 "New" Kid on the Block: Meus Racing?
4 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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I have been using RC for so long now, about 60 years and I have accumulated so many sets, I stay with the old equipment. I have around 20 or so Tx's and more rx's. Futaba and Hitec and Fleet have been good for me and I still use 2ch. 27Mhtz which all still works like it used to and very little competition for frequencies..
Failures are mainly battery connections in the back of the Tx as they corrode with time. But with a little bit of work they can be by-passed with triple A rechargeable. 10 cells will fit in the back where only 8 AA cells were and last longer.
Nothing wrong with the new stuff just no need for me to go there. There are some very cheap electronics in the way of esc's and mixers and especially more powerful standard servos. I use 9 gramm servos for powered boat rudders and the 6 and 7 Kilogram / cm torque standard servos for sail arms.
So one foot in the past and one foot in the future!
Roy
Failures are mainly battery connections in the back of the Tx as they corrode with time. But with a little bit of work they can be by-passed with triple A rechargeable. 10 cells will fit in the back where only 8 AA cells were and last longer.
Nothing wrong with the new stuff just no need for me to go there. There are some very cheap electronics in the way of esc's and mixers and especially more powerful standard servos. I use 9 gramm servos for powered boat rudders and the 6 and 7 Kilogram / cm torque standard servos for sail arms.
So one foot in the past and one foot in the future!
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📝 Post-Scotland inspiration
7 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi Ron Model Boating is a very serious business no sign of enjoyment allowed anywhere!
Happiness is for others, typical Scotsman whisked over to Canada. OMG what is happening to us?
I am sure Canada is not a dismal place I have several relations there at the western edge.
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Happiness is for others, typical Scotsman whisked over to Canada. OMG what is happening to us?
I am sure Canada is not a dismal place I have several relations there at the western edge.
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📝 Question of the Day?
15 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Right, I hope that puts the seal on all the puns!
However, I would like to expound on the virtues of bathroom sealant! I use it to secure the prop tube inside my model boats. It can stand up to 50 watts power (that is as far as I have been), it keeps the water out cuts down vibration and allows time to exactly position the tube. I connect a 1.5 volt battary to the drive motor and adjust position until it runs as easy as possible.
Ere in Oz I have to work hard to know what time it is. Nearly missed a QoD.
Roy
However, I would like to expound on the virtues of bathroom sealant! I use it to secure the prop tube inside my model boats. It can stand up to 50 watts power (that is as far as I have been), it keeps the water out cuts down vibration and allows time to exactly position the tube. I connect a 1.5 volt battary to the drive motor and adjust position until it runs as easy as possible.
Ere in Oz I have to work hard to know what time it is. Nearly missed a QoD.
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📝 1990 era Traxxas XL-1 electronic speed controller
15 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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The first of the RC tx's just turned the 27Mhtz carrier wave on and off, there was no modulation as that required a stable carrier frequency. My Fleet 4 Ch pre-proportional set had a blue crystal soldered in place to stabilise the oscillations. That was the first time I ever saw a crystal in use.
That would be around 50 years ago now.
In those days a servo was an electric motor powered escapement. I had a rudder servo that drove a screwed rod with a travelling 'nut' which was for the rudder movement. This needed 2 switch controls one left and one right, the rudder would move end points and then the end microswitch would cut the current and when you released the Tx switch it would centralise the rudder again. Very sophisticated!
Back then for speed which was from dry batteries I had a sequenced pair of relays that would run the batteries in either parallel or series with stop in between. Still got them!
I never did use i/c always electric.
Roy
That would be around 50 years ago now.
In those days a servo was an electric motor powered escapement. I had a rudder servo that drove a screwed rod with a travelling 'nut' which was for the rudder movement. This needed 2 switch controls one left and one right, the rudder would move end points and then the end microswitch would cut the current and when you released the Tx switch it would centralise the rudder again. Very sophisticated!
Back then for speed which was from dry batteries I had a sequenced pair of relays that would run the batteries in either parallel or series with stop in between. Still got them!
I never did use i/c always electric.
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📝 1990 era Traxxas XL-1 electronic speed controller
15 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi Ron I have the rubber powered escapements which had 4 positions and were used just fo the rudder. The Radio type I do not know as several early ones were suspect and never heard of again. Then American RC was the one to have but too much beyond my pay grade!
My first RC was a ED Mk4 with a ground level TX and a control box plugged into it. That was in 1958 (cost £7.7s.0d) never worked as I did not realise that it could not deal with electric motors. I was learning electronics at the time while training on Aircraft radar equipment.
I built some DIY which did not work often enough to take to the lake. The first successful equipment was from Fleet with electronic tones instead of tuned reeds.
That cost a week's wages, prices are ridiculously low now compared to then.
£50 in 1960 is equivalent to £1000+ now! £50 now is just a bit more than pocket money. So my £10 then would be £200 now. Both figures shop for groceries for a week for 2 people. (that is my main job now!).
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My first RC was a ED Mk4 with a ground level TX and a control box plugged into it. That was in 1958 (cost £7.7s.0d) never worked as I did not realise that it could not deal with electric motors. I was learning electronics at the time while training on Aircraft radar equipment.
I built some DIY which did not work often enough to take to the lake. The first successful equipment was from Fleet with electronic tones instead of tuned reeds.
That cost a week's wages, prices are ridiculously low now compared to then.
£50 in 1960 is equivalent to £1000+ now! £50 now is just a bit more than pocket money. So my £10 then would be £200 now. Both figures shop for groceries for a week for 2 people. (that is my main job now!).
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📝 1990 era Traxxas XL-1 electronic speed controller
16 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi Garth Fleet in the UK followed the same order and with their own connectors. I still have the Fleet rx.s and servos and apart from one model with all Fleet connectors I have cut the Fleet connectors off and soldered on the standard ones in the correct order.
Now I think about it Sanwa were much the same wiring order.
Fleet was agressively British and the founder uncompromising, I met him several times. I complained about his special short aerials with all of 6 yards range and the early sail winch he sold which twitched the whole time. He would accept no criticism of performance and no possible responsibility.
The tx.s were very good and much like the Futaba M3 in polished aluminium and lovely to hold. I had a very early non proportional set which was excellent, so not all bad. I still use the sets on 40Mhtz never having ventured to 2.4Ghtz.
His 40 Mhtz sets all had labels underneath proclaiming them as 35 Mhtz and this works for all the ones I tried just insert a 40Mhtz crystal into a 35 Mhtz set and they work fine.
Now of course it is almost fit and forget for nearly all manufacturers.
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Roy
Now I think about it Sanwa were much the same wiring order.
Fleet was agressively British and the founder uncompromising, I met him several times. I complained about his special short aerials with all of 6 yards range and the early sail winch he sold which twitched the whole time. He would accept no criticism of performance and no possible responsibility.
The tx.s were very good and much like the Futaba M3 in polished aluminium and lovely to hold. I had a very early non proportional set which was excellent, so not all bad. I still use the sets on 40Mhtz never having ventured to 2.4Ghtz.
His 40 Mhtz sets all had labels underneath proclaiming them as 35 Mhtz and this works for all the ones I tried just insert a 40Mhtz crystal into a 35 Mhtz set and they work fine.
Now of course it is almost fit and forget for nearly all manufacturers.
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📝 Final Paint Finishes
19 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi, when using the Halford acrylic colour paint it needs the satin or gloss spray to harden it. When all painting finished as far as the hull goes I use good quality furniture polish to give an additional layer of protection and the water slides off smoothly.
I have several models that are nearly as new paintwise that are 25 -30 years old. I have yacht made by a friend with the same paint job just cleaned and polished up made in 1965. That is 60 years ago and Humbrol paint, so good foundations last well.
I have a chest of drawer from 1962 when you could buy bare wood furniture. I spent time painting it and apart from knocks the paintwork is OK but it now resides in the garage still doing its job full of magazines.
Roy
I have several models that are nearly as new paintwise that are 25 -30 years old. I have yacht made by a friend with the same paint job just cleaned and polished up made in 1965. That is 60 years ago and Humbrol paint, so good foundations last well.
I have a chest of drawer from 1962 when you could buy bare wood furniture. I spent time painting it and apart from knocks the paintwork is OK but it now resides in the garage still doing its job full of magazines.
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📝 Anyone tried Solar Powered RC boat?
20 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi Ron yes I recognise the names, we often sail into the Hawksbury river, it is a National Park with free mooring and very nice, Jarusalem Bay where we moor up and go swimming.
We are having lunch at Cottage Point on the Hawksbury river in a week or so.
We take the dog and me for a walk on the beach and pass Mooney Mooney en route. Erina has a big air conditioned shopping Mall, you can go for the day in there!
Woy Woy means 'much water' and the photo is of the narrow inlet about 200 yards across of the water flowing into Brisbane Water, 64 square miles of sailing and fishing. Further down from us it narrows to 600 feet wide and there is a bridge called the Rip bridge and it is well named as the average amount of water with the tide over 5 hours is at maximum 200+ tons per second and it is 120 feet deep. I made the mistake once of going under it on a paddle board it is dangerous.
Everyone has a boat or yacht here and some of the larger motor boats are so ugly! Marinas galore. We are able to easily sail down the coast to Sydney Harbour which is an enormous area and go further in to explore the water ways. The picture is of the previous yacht with me at the helm about to sail under 'the bridge'
When sailing out to sea and the Hawksbury river we have to navigate the many sand banks through the channels and it takes about 25 minutes zig zagging through. The beaches here are near perfect no stones underfoot and sometimes completely deserted.
Gosford is an industrial town but I know the hospital well having had 2 visits one a stroke and the other the next year, an operation. I was treated very well, possibly because my daughter in law is a Consultant doctor there?
It is the middle of the night here as jetlag has stiked again, but going back to bed now.
To finish we have roll up solar panels on board and they top up the batteries a bit, but usually the boat batteries are put on charge the night before sailing.
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Roy
We are having lunch at Cottage Point on the Hawksbury river in a week or so.
We take the dog and me for a walk on the beach and pass Mooney Mooney en route. Erina has a big air conditioned shopping Mall, you can go for the day in there!
Woy Woy means 'much water' and the photo is of the narrow inlet about 200 yards across of the water flowing into Brisbane Water, 64 square miles of sailing and fishing. Further down from us it narrows to 600 feet wide and there is a bridge called the Rip bridge and it is well named as the average amount of water with the tide over 5 hours is at maximum 200+ tons per second and it is 120 feet deep. I made the mistake once of going under it on a paddle board it is dangerous.
Everyone has a boat or yacht here and some of the larger motor boats are so ugly! Marinas galore. We are able to easily sail down the coast to Sydney Harbour which is an enormous area and go further in to explore the water ways. The picture is of the previous yacht with me at the helm about to sail under 'the bridge'
When sailing out to sea and the Hawksbury river we have to navigate the many sand banks through the channels and it takes about 25 minutes zig zagging through. The beaches here are near perfect no stones underfoot and sometimes completely deserted.
Gosford is an industrial town but I know the hospital well having had 2 visits one a stroke and the other the next year, an operation. I was treated very well, possibly because my daughter in law is a Consultant doctor there?
It is the middle of the night here as jetlag has stiked again, but going back to bed now.
To finish we have roll up solar panels on board and they top up the batteries a bit, but usually the boat batteries are put on charge the night before sailing.
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📝 Anyone tried Solar Powered RC boat?
20 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi DWB. Apparently the Brits are the top long haul flyers statistically. All to do with family connections all over the world. Being from an ISLAND you can see the last 3 letters are DNA, so already built into us and we do things as we like! And you exagerate, it was only 23 hours 50 minutes! 😀😀😀😀
Coming back is a bit longer. I arrived as always 'nackered' but our son collects me and all is well again. He has a very large model railway which is always growing, but mainly in complexity. Looks like sailing is on in his 40 foot yacht I used to be crew but now just a helpful passenger.
I hope you survive your blizzard but sometimes the predicted weather patterns fade early on. In the UK it rained for the first 2 months of the year, the changes in global weather is not always what is expected, but science says the more water vapour available over the Atlantic the worse the storms will be.
There are still skeptics about and no amount of bombs or fires will dry off the air!
Take care.
Roy
Coming back is a bit longer. I arrived as always 'nackered' but our son collects me and all is well again. He has a very large model railway which is always growing, but mainly in complexity. Looks like sailing is on in his 40 foot yacht I used to be crew but now just a helpful passenger.
I hope you survive your blizzard but sometimes the predicted weather patterns fade early on. In the UK it rained for the first 2 months of the year, the changes in global weather is not always what is expected, but science says the more water vapour available over the Atlantic the worse the storms will be.
There are still skeptics about and no amount of bombs or fires will dry off the air!
Take care.
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📝 3D Printings...
21 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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I agree the Emma C Berry is a great looking model, at the time the cost in the UK was just too high for me, but she does look good on the water.
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📝 Anyone tried Solar Powered RC boat?
21 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi Yabbie 1 and welcome John. I hope you enjoy the posts and ideas floated.
I am in Woy Woy at the moment having survived the chaos of Kingsford Smith airport yesterday, Saturday. It took 2 hours to clear through usually only 30 minutes. We had to wait as previous flight delays had an aircraft occupying our gate when we landed so kept waiting 20 minutes before letting us out.
Security is much quicker but the baggage hall was just chaos with not enough staff to check our bits of paper.
All the best
Roy
I am in Woy Woy at the moment having survived the chaos of Kingsford Smith airport yesterday, Saturday. It took 2 hours to clear through usually only 30 minutes. We had to wait as previous flight delays had an aircraft occupying our gate when we landed so kept waiting 20 minutes before letting us out.
Security is much quicker but the baggage hall was just chaos with not enough staff to check our bits of paper.
All the best
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📝 3D Printings...
21 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi Ronald I am there now writing a review of our recent March club evening. see our website https://stalbansmes.com
I organise our club evenings, which can be seen for content by going to the bottom of the pages and clicking on the picture.
We manage 10 evenings per year from internal sources, members. The others are Auction and visit to club track. Usually around 30+ members present in our excellent church venue.
I am currently typing and this is my view from the patio at rear of our son's house. Lovely warm and bright sunlight with a cool breeze.
Roy
I organise our club evenings, which can be seen for content by going to the bottom of the pages and clicking on the picture.
We manage 10 evenings per year from internal sources, members. The others are Auction and visit to club track. Usually around 30+ members present in our excellent church venue.
I am currently typing and this is my view from the patio at rear of our son's house. Lovely warm and bright sunlight with a cool breeze.
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📝 3D Printings...
21 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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The dinosaurs as a species were very resilient having ruled for 170 milllion years, we have a long way to go, providing we can get some better leaders than we have now.
All current would-be warriors included in this.
Roy
All current would-be warriors included in this.
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📝 3D Printings...
21 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi Jump, I always wanted the Sterling freighter kit. A few years ago one was put in for sale at our club shop I went through it and was not impressed with the contents. A disappointment and one I wish I did not know.
As you say Dumas also qualifies for the worst wood ever, I am sure better wood was available and I there were accountants involved where the profit line is more important than the quality of the product.
I have an old kit of the American Beauty towboat still not completed. The under water fittings kit was way over the cost of what it should have been. Having seen it I made my own from mainly brass which was a small reward apart from the negligible cost to myself, just time. I bought 2 props (£60) made 6 rudders and 2 kort nozzles.
I will post a picture when I find it!
Roy
As you say Dumas also qualifies for the worst wood ever, I am sure better wood was available and I there were accountants involved where the profit line is more important than the quality of the product.
I have an old kit of the American Beauty towboat still not completed. The under water fittings kit was way over the cost of what it should have been. Having seen it I made my own from mainly brass which was a small reward apart from the negligible cost to myself, just time. I bought 2 props (£60) made 6 rudders and 2 kort nozzles.
I will post a picture when I find it!
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📝 Question of the Day?
26 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi SS yes you can answer missed questions. I shall be doing that myself Friday / Saturday as I shall be crossing so many time zones I do not know if I am coming or going! 11,000 miles from UK to Australia and 24 hours travelling via Singapore.
With trustee laptop and an Oz coloquial dictionary, doubled up on hearing aids and with 'best' walking stick and whistling to keep my spirits up. No, I am getting carried away, it is my 16th. trip!
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With trustee laptop and an Oz coloquial dictionary, doubled up on hearing aids and with 'best' walking stick and whistling to keep my spirits up. No, I am getting carried away, it is my 16th. trip!
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📝 Anyone tried Solar Powered RC boat?
27 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi Ronald if you read Model Boats magazine John Parker drew plans for a solar powered boat (Sarik). It is a tourist boat with a long awning which has solar cells on it. He lives in Melbourn Ausrtalia and we are in frequent email contact.
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📝 Wood glues
27 days ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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PVA glue penetrates the wood, best join is to put a weight or clamp the wood down, also a pin with an end part is good. When the pin is removed there is a hole but this is just fibres that have been pushed aside and a drop of water allows them to move back to resume their place and hole dis appears.
Have a damp cloth available to stop pva staining the deck when the plank is held in place. I saw a video testing all available pva glues and all the glues worked from cheapest to most expensive, so choose cheap and thick.
However we all have our own way so choose for yourself.
Roy
Have a damp cloth available to stop pva staining the deck when the plank is held in place. I saw a video testing all available pva glues and all the glues worked from cheapest to most expensive, so choose cheap and thick.
However we all have our own way so choose for yourself.
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi Ron stanchions that size can also come as etched brass. Have you checked that possibility?
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi Bob I was lucky as I did not need glasses until I was 50 and I used to shoot rifle (.22) in competition, my eyesight went downhill when we had screens and keyboards on our work desks.
But 2 years ago I had 2 cataract operations and now am back to some week reading glasses so straight lines and stanchions are all easy for me in the workshop. Trouble is no one can put my age back 20 years to have the energy I used to have.
I am off to visit family soon, our son, in Australia and usually come back much fitter as he takes no prisoners when out for the day!
Just waiting for a warm up in the weather to return to finishing my Wild Duck model yacht. I have made arrangements with a Higher Being, that I will live long enough to complete all the kits and a few part built models before I pop my clogs.
Roy
But 2 years ago I had 2 cataract operations and now am back to some week reading glasses so straight lines and stanchions are all easy for me in the workshop. Trouble is no one can put my age back 20 years to have the energy I used to have.
I am off to visit family soon, our son, in Australia and usually come back much fitter as he takes no prisoners when out for the day!
Just waiting for a warm up in the weather to return to finishing my Wild Duck model yacht. I have made arrangements with a Higher Being, that I will live long enough to complete all the kits and a few part built models before I pop my clogs.
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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I have made my own stanchions before but used brass tubing. This combined with close fitting brass rod. When drilling the tube I put the brass rod inside to support the tube walls when drilling. When the drilling is done I use a small length of the rod soldered into the lower part to use as a locating pin for the deck.
I made some a while back where the stanchions had to be removed as part of the removeable upper deck and I found that the brass ferules located into the deck and included in servo packs were an excellent fit and and protected the wood deck.
If you are making stanchions in a small scale on a jig do not wear varifocal lense type glasses as the trapezium distortion of the glasses will taper the uprightness away at the edges. It happened to me some years ago and now I use a metal jig with 90 degree corner to ensure they are upright. With the small ones superglue for railings is less obtrusive than solder.
With brass wire which sometimes comes wrapped in a rough coil, I cut off twice as much as I need clamp one end in a bench vise and with a pair of pliers grip the other. A small jerk will straighten the wire and harden it at the same time. It will lengthen maybe half an inch but stay straight and hard.
It is nice diy some of the items more associated with buying ready to use.
All the best
Roy
I made some a while back where the stanchions had to be removed as part of the removeable upper deck and I found that the brass ferules located into the deck and included in servo packs were an excellent fit and and protected the wood deck.
If you are making stanchions in a small scale on a jig do not wear varifocal lense type glasses as the trapezium distortion of the glasses will taper the uprightness away at the edges. It happened to me some years ago and now I use a metal jig with 90 degree corner to ensure they are upright. With the small ones superglue for railings is less obtrusive than solder.
With brass wire which sometimes comes wrapped in a rough coil, I cut off twice as much as I need clamp one end in a bench vise and with a pair of pliers grip the other. A small jerk will straighten the wire and harden it at the same time. It will lengthen maybe half an inch but stay straight and hard.
It is nice diy some of the items more associated with buying ready to use.
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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That was a close thing I was almost at 100% by tomorrow!
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📝 Testing LED diodes
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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If you have the plans for Mary Ann you will see a small light at the bow on a post about head height. This is a fishing light just needs another LED.
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📝 Testing LED diodes
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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What teachers like is when you listen and then do something for yourself. It means you have learnt something by yourself.
NB I am not a teacher! But have done a little instructing.
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NB I am not a teacher! But have done a little instructing.
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Pat! I seem to remember you were complaining about the 100% scores and now you are at 97%!!!!!!🤔🤔🤔🤔
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📝 Testing LED diodes
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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The cheapest way is to use a separate BEC. Ohms law gives you the value of resistor the mWatt value of the LED gives you the current. But a single BEC (5 volts) will drive 2 LEDs in series or maybe 3 and no resistors required.
Forget the mysteries of electronics it is just a simple arithmetic calculation.
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Forget the mysteries of electronics it is just a simple arithmetic calculation.
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi Ron thanks for sharing great looking models. I have just ordered the Jim Pottinger book Fishing boats of Scotland.
I found contacting the Scottish Fisheries museum very helpful and friendly. I think it needs to get on my Bucket List!
All the best
Roy
I found contacting the Scottish Fisheries museum very helpful and friendly. I think it needs to get on my Bucket List!
All the best
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💬 Re: Keilcraft ; Thornycroft Range Safety boat [SM Harriss]
2 months ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Back in the day when boats were boats!
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi Ron thanks for those pictures I have saved the one on blocks in my archive. Never thought of sailing my ones on sails, I think it would need to be a bigger version to do this successfully.
I originally had the 2 boats on a 4 ch. Tx. with just 2 ch in use in each boat. The idea was to sail them together but I found this extremely difficult. My right hand worked fine but my left had no idea, there were several collisions! They now have separate controls and I pass one over to a friend so we can run together.
I have another fishing boat, it is the Ring netter from the the book Plank on Frame Models Vol.2. by Harold A Underhill. Boat registered as CN 992, but this is fictional.
She looks good on the water and I am looking for a crew for her. I did not build her but found her on Gumtree ( another ebay) she was a decorative model and I gave her a new life on the water. At £20 I thought she was too good to pass by, and she was kindly shipped from Scotland by the seller. We had exchanged friendly emails about her and I sent her photos of her on the water, which she liked.
She is bread and butter built and leaked like a sieve until it was attended to.
Roy
I originally had the 2 boats on a 4 ch. Tx. with just 2 ch in use in each boat. The idea was to sail them together but I found this extremely difficult. My right hand worked fine but my left had no idea, there were several collisions! They now have separate controls and I pass one over to a friend so we can run together.
I have another fishing boat, it is the Ring netter from the the book Plank on Frame Models Vol.2. by Harold A Underhill. Boat registered as CN 992, but this is fictional.
She looks good on the water and I am looking for a crew for her. I did not build her but found her on Gumtree ( another ebay) she was a decorative model and I gave her a new life on the water. At £20 I thought she was too good to pass by, and she was kindly shipped from Scotland by the seller. We had exchanged friendly emails about her and I sent her photos of her on the water, which she liked.
She is bread and butter built and leaked like a sieve until it was attended to.
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 roycv ( Fleet Admiral)
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Hi Ron is this a Billing Mary Ann kit? I have 2 and they are a joy to sail. I have a 3rd. kit, unstarted except for the frames and keel, I hope it will get finished.
There are many 1:35 scale figures available. I have used the army figures with torso and limbs separate as these are versatile to any position. I think there are 3 crew, there are pictures in 'My Harbour'.
The kit has been on the market for 65 years and has had many upgrades and now costs 12 times what it was at the start. The Cux 87 Krabbencutter in the series, uses the same hull.
The photo shows the 2 together, they are both the same kit! Just that one of them is slowly sinking! It was water creeping in around the hole where the prop tube was alegedly glued in place.
Roy
There are many 1:35 scale figures available. I have used the army figures with torso and limbs separate as these are versatile to any position. I think there are 3 crew, there are pictures in 'My Harbour'.
The kit has been on the market for 65 years and has had many upgrades and now costs 12 times what it was at the start. The Cux 87 Krabbencutter in the series, uses the same hull.
The photo shows the 2 together, they are both the same kit! Just that one of them is slowly sinking! It was water creeping in around the hole where the prop tube was alegedly glued in place.
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