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 81 
 on: March 26, 2024, 08:39:17 am 
Started by B.B - Last Post by B.B
Hi there thanks guys, This section of photo's are.......She had 2 air vents, made these from the knobs from old veneesian blinds and doweling, then the shade awning which is positioned at the rear of the w-house, then the boxing which contains a deck snap ( freezing prawn cartons when filled) brine tanks and the sorting tray lid.With the main Gantry and A-frame they were made from Colonial teak all joints glued and doweled and the ladder for the A-frame.It was time to make more life rings for the 2 models and future ones, they were cut from an old section of window frame ( Red Cedar) scavenged from the local tip back in 1977 ( when we could do these things ??)   cheers  :-))

 82 
 on: March 25, 2024, 09:01:13 pm 
Started by Martin (Admin) - Last Post by Colin Bishop
Yes Martin, no standardisation on those cartridges. Been there, discovered that. Cheaper in the long term to stick to mainstream manufacturers such as Bristan. Likewise with shower heads.The MIRA ones give a far greater flow but you do need to use the slightly wider bore connection hoses. Makes a huge difference.

Colin

 83 
 on: March 25, 2024, 08:34:53 pm 
Started by Martin (Admin) - Last Post by Martin (Admin)

OK, on holiday for a few days, time to fix this tap.

CAN NOT find the right size replacement Ceramic cartridge anywhere!

2nd, Cold cartridge point-blank refuses to budge.  >>:-(

.... New taps it is then, NOT Screwfix brand ever again!
 


 84 
 on: March 25, 2024, 08:12:28 pm 
Started by nemesis - Last Post by 6705russell
I think she only has the Atlantic’s and Solent left.

 85 
 on: March 25, 2024, 08:01:10 pm 
Started by nemesis - Last Post by Charlie
There is a person selling off lots of sets of RNLI plans in the Model Lifeboat facebook group. Worth checking out

 86 
 on: March 25, 2024, 07:50:55 pm 
Started by nemesis - Last Post by 6705russell
Had more or less the same reply about some Arun plans…

 87 
 on: March 25, 2024, 07:29:17 pm 
Started by Nick-R - Last Post by Nick-R
My introduction to building working model boats was about the age of 10 or so via the KeilKraft eze build series - a Neptune? I think.  It was a 16in cabin cruiser with a small electric (Mabuchi?) motor and could just about make it across the local dam on a flat 4.5v battery.  Motor was connected to battery with paper clips?  It was always guaranteed to make landfall at the other side at the most inaccessible bit of the pond, usually necessitating a paddle through reeds to retrieve it.


My first radio gear was single channel with a receiver that had a relay that closed when the transmit button was pressed.  It gave sequential steering - first press turn to port, next press turn to starboard.  Also you could send a sort of morse code that operated a throttle servo - fast or slow.  In real terms that probably cost about ten times my current Microzone six channel tx/rx and servos/esc.


My modelling skills were really coming up to speed but then I discovered women!!!








 88 
 on: March 25, 2024, 07:12:19 pm 
Started by Martin (Admin) - Last Post by Martin (Admin)

Evening All !

I've had an email from someone that needs help repairs to his fishing bait boat, anyone from / know anyone in the Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex area that might help?

"I'm  looking to have it serviced plus the hand set could do with a repair as one of the switches have come loose and perhaps make sure it's synchronisation is good between hand set and boat ."

 Martin 
 

 
 

 89 
 on: March 25, 2024, 07:05:48 pm 
Started by Nick-R - Last Post by Dave_S.
More early 70s than 60s, but my first few boats were diesel or glow powered. My very first was basically a plywood shoe-box with a simple electric motor and a super-regen single channel radio. It had quite a few limitations, but I was able to steer it around a local pond. Second boat was a glass fibre flattie I bought on holiday in Eastbourne, fitted an ED super Racer in it and it was quite a lot of fun. My final IC boat was an SHG Shadow with a Webra 20 in it, proper radio, and kept me entertained for a year or two. No idea what happened to any of them now though.

 90 
 on: March 25, 2024, 06:44:41 pm 
Started by Nick-R - Last Post by Nick-R
My first ic engine was a Frog 2.5cc.  It had a water jacket but an open exhaust.  Making some kind of collector/manifold for it was beyond my skills at the time (probably still is!) so it made a real mess, not to mention the exhaust smoke making the boat look like it was on fire!  Wonder what happened to them?


I also acquired a 6.5cc glow plug engine which made my Swordsman fly but I also learned the hard way that these motors ran hotter than diesels, beyond the melting point of the neophrene tubing I had connecting the exhaust to the transom!  Can’t remember the make!  In fact the Swordsman flew so much that it tried to do so up the bank at the side of the pond, wrecking its bow!  It was then I learned the delights of fibre glass and filler!


The young guys nowadays with plug and play brushless motors don’t know they are living!!!

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