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One of my very first models as a kid. Remember building it when the Shadows were playing Wonderful Land.

Colin

 
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That’s interesting, so the thread we can see top middle is likely to be 6mm by 0.5mm if it’s a Caton. A friend of mine has a Caton plant and that’s also red so it’s not beyond the realms of possibility, maybe they’re relatively late in production and the red paint was carried over onto the Max2. Hopefully they’ll arrive tomorrow so I can look further into it.
My Max2 is currently in Norfolk but I should have it to hand at the weekend.

I forgot to mention I use a 12v12amp lead acid  battery driving two 555 motors, runs for ages and a realistic speed.

Rob, I did wonder if it was the Caton, they were available in red, although all the ones I have seen were in green. The bore and stroke are the same as the later Max2. The fittings used for the Caton appear to be metric, 5mm by 0.5mm and 6mm by 0.5mm where the Max 2 uses ME Threads, 1/4 by 40, so the fittings are not interchangeable, but, they will confirm for you whether its a Caton or a Max 2

 



 

 

 

The engine is a Max2 minus the steam valve and water pump, its bore is 9.5mm and its stroke is 15.8mm, should power a 75mm prop with ease, suitable for boats unto 1.2m in length, operating pressure 30 to 80 psi


Thanks, I have a Max2 and it looked subtly different? I was wondering if it was a Caton? Cheers Rob

Last night I started removing the old red paint using 40 and 100 grade abrasive paper from the upper conning position and the main companion way as shown in last photo posted yesterday!

However, just those two pieces took ages, approximately 3 hours to clear as much as shown.

So this morning I decided that I would use sanding discs on a palm sander, and within  3 minutes the top of the main cabin that the upper conning position is I placed on was sanded with 240 grade.

As this was so quick I decided to do it all using the sander,wearing a dust coat and face masks, but in the meantime to cover up the model i am trying to sell with old dust covers.


Tomorrow I will take the paint off the rest of the cabin pieces with the 240 grit and then finish the 3 pieces with 400, then 800 grade paper.

The engine is a Max2 minus the steam valve and water pump, its bore is 9.5mm and its stroke is 15.8mm, should power a 75mm prop with ease, suitable for boats unto 1.2m in length, operating pressure 30 to 80 psi

Door opening rods were set, which doors were originally engineered to be workable by servo-operated system but too narrow to do around the stern corners for servo installation. And meaningless to me to do so for this sailing-oriented RC boat.
Easy Maintenance of the boat will be possibly disturbed largely by such complicated system in the so narrow space through small hatches..   Simple is the best for a RC lake-going fast scale boat at least for me.!!!