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New to the Hobby? Your first boat, a RTF (Ready To Float)

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Ghost in the shell:
aaah but what if you are too young to buy solvents? this is aimed at the school kid age where the purchase of glues, paints etc is restricted by law and daddy wont buy you paints because they are messy and smelly

Stavros:
BUT ghost I know your posting is full of good advise and is an Excellent intro to model boats BUT by your own admition these RTR boats Will defiantly be swamped 100% by proper radio gear my advise to any newcomer is to save up and buy a second hand well sorted model with proper radio gear,thats my opinion anyway.



Stavros

The long Build:

--- Quote from: Ghost in the shell on November 16, 2008, 04:53:52 pm ---aaah but what if you are too young to buy solvents? this is aimed at the school kid age where the purchase of glues, paints etc is restricted by law and daddy wont buy you paints because they are messy and smelly

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Just shows how much restrictions , restrict the hobby at an early stage , I was buying stanley blades, glue,fibreglass resin, paints at 13, not sure if it was legal in the early 80's but I had no problem.

Ghost in the shell:
stavros look at it this way, you want a radio control boat, you are under 18, (more realistically just starting high school, your dad isn't interested in helping build a model boat, what do you do? mother wont let you use spray tins, this leaves RTR cheap toys as the way in

wideawake:

--- Quote from: Ghost in the shell on November 16, 2008, 03:56:24 pm ---5.
Having charged your battery you are ready to go to the pond.

study the pond well as to what is likely to give you problems.  are there reeds around the edges, is there anywildlife on the pond, are there any fishermen, and also what other modellers are there?

Having assessed your lake and found it to be ok, you can now go ahead and put your boat in the water.

1st
open your model up as stated in your instruction book and put the battery in its cradle and connect it up BUT DO NOT TURN THE MODEL ON.

2nd turn on your transmitter and extend the antenna fully

3rd turn the model on and close the model up and put your model in the water making sure to keep fingers away from the propellers, they may be plastic but they spin fast and can hurt if your fingers come into contact with the spinning blades.

4 sail your model.

This proceedure is set this way so that you dont accidentally do yourself or your model damage because of an unplaned start up, 1Transmitter on, 2 boat on, 3 boat off, 4 transmitter off

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I would add 2a first turn the power on and check that the controls work as expected.    THEN and only then put the model in the water!

I'd also add a range check, certainly the first time the boat is used.

I can't imagine anything worse than putting a boat in the water for the first time, seeing the wind blow it out of reach and then finding that you don't have control!

HTH

Guy

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