Model Boat Mayhem

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length.
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: AirBoat Cage  (Read 3484 times)

jaymac

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2,140
  • Location: Somerset
AirBoat Cage
« on: September 16, 2017, 08:12:43 pm »

Got me an Airboat on fleabay and need to make up a Prop cage.  Anyone made one  of other than metal as not a solderer is there  some kind of plastic type rod/tube one could use .It'll be about 10''high 10''wide
Thanks
Jay
Logged

jarvo

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 662
  • Etherow model boat club
  • Location: Bredbury Stockport Cheshire
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2017, 09:13:37 pm »

Hi Jay, try the Hobbyking website, they do spares for their airboat


Mark
Logged
Tugs are for pulling

jaymac

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2,140
  • Location: Somerset
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2017, 10:57:24 pm »

''Thanks Mark but the swamp dawg only has a 5.5'' prop  this one has a 9'' and is a much bigger  boat
Jay
Logged

Klunk

  • Global Moderator
  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 5,208
  • If you know who I am, please remind me!!
  • Location: luton, beds
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2017, 08:32:41 am »

On my hover craft  i have used buckets as an outside fence an also sweet tub containers (haribo). Then use wire mesh attached to the front to stop fingers going in.
Logged
SECRETARY - LUTON AND DISTRICT MODEL BOAT CLUB
full time penguin

mrlownotes

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 404
  • Location: A bit NorthWest Cambridgeshire
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2017, 02:34:50 pm »


Jag at Palaform does inexpensive lightweight alloy mesh sheets for his Hovercraft

http://shop.modelhovercraft.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=60_68&product_id=174

Worth a call to check sizes and availability.
Logged
Bintur Ellenbach

jaymac

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2,140
  • Location: Somerset
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2017, 04:39:55 pm »

Thanks but don't want mesh  it will just be bars I need to make a 2 Tall Arches with bars joining not too concerned about front entry at the moment  that mesh might do for that
Logged

Hellboy Paul

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 197
  • Location: Where ever I am at this moment in time
Logged

jaymac

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2,140
  • Location: Somerset
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2017, 06:46:08 pm »

Bit too rich for me I'm afraid
Logged

Hellboy Paul

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 197
  • Location: Where ever I am at this moment in time
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2017, 06:48:29 pm »

You can most probably find one cheaper, i'm not going to do all the searching for you...
Logged

jaymac

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2,140
  • Location: Somerset
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2017, 10:26:52 pm »

Never asked you to my op was if there was a material that did not require soldering sorry if I took up some of your time
Logged

grasshopper

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 773
  • Location: Lincolnshire!
    • A1 Hobbies Ltd.
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2017, 10:42:05 pm »

Plastic rod of a suitable diameter, bamboo or rattan strip.....have you looked at places like B&Q in their strip materials box?


If it's not a scale model could you use a section of a plastic bucket/pot and make a duct?
Logged

jaymac

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2,140
  • Location: Somerset
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2017, 05:39:03 am »

Thanks have already made one with bamboo spars but the 2 arches have made out of ply which coupled with a large  motor pylon and rudder have a bit of a Sail effect. Reluctant to make a duct hoping to make it all in rod might have to bite the bullet and try soldering
Logged

surfs up

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 95
  • Location: Hampshire
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2017, 09:15:34 am »

Have a look at EMA models lots of plastic connection. http://www.ema-models.co.uk.
Logged

david48

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 866
  • Location: Strathdon,Aberdeenshire
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2017, 12:44:42 pm »

This fan guard you want  it will have to work as a real one I assume as well as looking ok so I would think metal would be best ,maybe plastic will not be strong enough if it lets go.
Logged
Two heads are better than one sheep head  as my old plant manager used to say

tigertiger

  • Global Moderator
  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 7,748
  • Location: Kunming, city of eternal springtime, SW China.
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #14 on: September 18, 2017, 04:34:53 pm »

If you know anyone with a 3D printer, that is a possibility. As is cannibalising a 9in desk fan from a boot sale.
Logged
The only stupid question is the one I didn't ask

john44

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,659
  • member of the Potteries Model boat club
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #15 on: September 18, 2017, 05:45:19 pm »

Jamaic, I have made cages out of 3mm brass tube bent over a former, buiscuit tin etc
cross bars ends filed with a small round file assembly held together with garden wire
ends joining the hoops fluxed  as you go along.
You will need a blowtorch you will never do it with a soldering iron.
You can always file off the excess solder after, use bulldog crocodile clips as heat sinks
if needed. Hope this helps.


John
Logged

tobyker

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1,311
  • Location: Scotland - West Coast
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #16 on: September 20, 2017, 08:01:28 pm »

I laminated mine from two thicknesses of thin ply over a wooden former. Seems quite strong enough with a 9" prop on a small brushless motor.
Logged

jaymac

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2,140
  • Location: Somerset
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #17 on: September 20, 2017, 10:15:00 pm »

Thanks for all the input guys going to have a go with some brass tube and solder should be interesting as I hate solder
Jay
Logged

david48

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 866
  • Location: Strathdon,Aberdeenshire
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #18 on: September 21, 2017, 09:38:13 am »


Tube might not be the best choice as it might kink when you form the curve ,if the radius is not too tight  , solid drawn wire might be a better choice ,did you see your PM .
David
Logged
Two heads are better than one sheep head  as my old plant manager used to say

jaymac

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2,140
  • Location: Somerset
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #19 on: September 21, 2017, 11:16:51 am »

Sorry meant Tube David intending to make the upright from one size and  the curve from the next down and slip it into it least thats the plan :}
Logged

johnv

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 271
  • Model Boat Mayhem is Great!
  • Location: Peterborough
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2017, 10:22:57 pm »

Hi you can use a cage from a old 12 volt car dashboard fan
Logged

Onetenor

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 268
  • Model Boat Mayhem is Great!
  • Location: Meliden N Wales
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #21 on: October 06, 2017, 02:47:43 am »

Plastic rod is available from Arts/Hobby supplies shops .It can be joined with plastic weld or my fave PLASTIC MAGIC  look on these links  https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=plastic+rods+and+connectors&oq=Plastic+rod&aqs=chrome.4.69i57j0l5.17109j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Logged

malcolmfrary

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 6,027
  • Location: Blackpool, Lancs, UK
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #22 on: October 06, 2017, 09:01:29 am »

Wandering through Lidl yesterday, in one of the middle aisles, I saw a cake cooling rack.  Wire, circular, about 10" diameter.  Might be a start.
Logged
"With the right tool, you can break anything" - Garfield

jaymac

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 2,140
  • Location: Somerset
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #23 on: October 06, 2017, 09:22:28 am »

Thanks John and Malcolm I made one from Brass tube and Mesh
Logged

Onetenor

  • Full Mayhemer
  • *****
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 268
  • Model Boat Mayhem is Great!
  • Location: Meliden N Wales
Re: AirBoat Cage
« Reply #24 on: October 06, 2017, 03:09:03 pm »

OK well done got any pics? Bear the plastic rods in mind for future reference.Just Google "Plastic Rods"
Logged
Pages: [1]   Go Up
 

Page created in 0.087 seconds with 21 queries.