Topic: @what age you started with rc (Read 11562 times)

seathug · « **on:** July 03, 2014, 09:11:44 pm »

Im curious at what age you started with remote controls
and what was your first remote control

Davenotdone · « **Reply #1 on:** July 03, 2014, 09:39:32 pm »

Aged 50, first model was a Dickie tug conversion for my two boys...........regards, Dave.

malcolmfrary · « **Reply #2 on:** July 03, 2014, 09:58:27 pm »

About 44, Maplins own brand, went into a somewhat modified HMS Quickstep (thank you, Glynn Guest) as steering only because I couldn't spare the cash for an ESC back then.

essex2visuvesi · « **Reply #3 on:** July 03, 2014, 10:25:23 pm »

about 4 or 5
was a yellow lancia stratos with forwards, and reverse steer

SailorMalc · « **Reply #4 on:** July 03, 2014, 10:37:38 pm »

about 20 Vernon tarpon with an Enya glow plug engine that i could only get to go flat out

seathug · « **Reply #5 on:** July 03, 2014, 10:57:29 pm »

First rc is a nissan truck from wool worth
Ever ready battery operated
I think I was 14 then
Next was a radio shack rc its a bit faster

Then a nitro tmaxx
Have learned how to tuned the motor
I think os nitro motor is the easiest to operate
Butt I gave up on nitro
noisy messy smoke give me migraine

Skimmer Fan · « **Reply #6 on:** July 03, 2014, 11:00:00 pm »

59 first boat built was a swamp boat

roycv · « **Reply #7 on:** July 03, 2014, 11:03:34 pm »

Hi I was about 20 with an ED Mk. iV all valve set and a Veron Carribean Coaster. About 1958 or so.
regards Roy

Neil · « **Reply #8 on:** July 03, 2014, 11:13:05 pm »

1979, 28 yrs old and a Rau 1X kit............with a Futaba 6 channel 27 meg radio.............sold to me by Redbank models when they were on Redbank Road Bispham..............the whole lot cost me a fortune to begin with......the radio set alone cost me £120 quid in those days, lol........only got rid of the tx last year to someone on here, lol

until then for the previous 20 years all mine had been free runners with just a motor and a rudder ratchet to steer or static models.

Peter Fitness · « **Reply #9 on:** July 03, 2014, 11:13:35 pm »

I was 52 when I bought my first radio unit, we couldn't afford one before that, as they were very expensive back in the dark ages

I was into flying in those days, and RC was much better than chasing free flight around a paddock

Peter.

roycv · « **Reply #10 on:** July 03, 2014, 11:26:35 pm »

Hi all now I come to think of it in my mid teens I had a boat that had a cam driven tiller I had made up from a slow electric gearbox, so that you never reaqlly knew where it was going next. Things haven't changed that much.
regards Roy

inertia · « **Reply #11 on:** July 03, 2014, 11:33:19 pm »

I was 12.
REP Unitone super-regen relay receiver and ground-based ED transmitter (with hand-held microswitch for full control). Fred Rising rubber-driven sequential escapement. 22.5v high-tension and 1.5v low-tension batteries for receiver + 4.5v torch battery for escapement.
"Next right! Next left!"
Them were t'days.
DM

mermod · « **Reply #12 on:** July 04, 2014, 02:36:53 am »

12Years old, Metro jet hopper followed by the Metro Aero jet hopper, then a Royal Crusher monster truck at 15 with a Futaba Attack radio and some 1.2 amp Nicads, then I discovered boats

Phill

Martin (Admin) · « **Reply #13 on:** July 04, 2014, 03:04:15 am »

25, MFA Piranha

Umi_Ryuzuki · « **Reply #14 on:** July 04, 2014, 03:21:31 am »

The age of AM KRAFT radios, with four wire servos.

Then those AM 2 channel Futaba Attack radios, black plastic boxes with the old extension antenna.

ray123 · « **Reply #15 on:** July 04, 2014, 06:55:47 am »

iwas 22 my first boat was a pilot boat brought from a boot sale for £35 it was built but needed work doing i then turned it into a police boat

spent a lot more on it to get it running futaba attack 2 channel 27meg a graupner mechanical speed control that was £32 but it got me started into this great hobby! ive only done boats no planes cars or trains i have been looking at trucks the last couple of weeks thinking maybe??? regards ray

tony52 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 04, 2014, 07:49:21 am »

Aerokits Crash Tender at age 30. Model had an OS 60 glow engine and was initially fitted with a Waltron 4ch r/c set, this was then replaced with a Sanwa 2ch 27meg set.

John W E · « **Reply #17 on:** July 04, 2014, 07:57:34 am »

Well the first radio I ever owned was made by the next door neighbour when I would be about 12 - it was, I remember, single valve floor mounted thing with a 6 ft aerial and a bloody great big Ever Ready Battery and you had a push light switch which operated a continuous rotating servo - operating the rudder only and I am pretty certain the circuit diagram came from Radio Weekly magazine??? One thing I do remember about it was, whilst the neighbour built it, I watched him - the resisters had a dot on them rather than colour bandings.

I moved on from diesel powered home designed models onto hydro planes. So....no requirement for radio then.

The first one I purchased was in 1976 and I had to save up for it and that was a Futaba Attack Sport and its still working and I still have it.

aye
John

GAZOU · « **Reply #18 on:** July 04, 2014, 08:08:41 am »

Thirteen years, my first radio was for escape, monochannel(monocanal), an impulse: has right quite, an impulse: in the middle, an impulse: to the left, an impulse: in the middle

Not easy to pilot a glider with that

roycv · « **Reply #19 on:** July 04, 2014, 08:23:50 am »

HI Bluebird resistors, they were a very old type , if I remember it was body - tip - spot to read the value. I watched an uncle build a radio from a kit in the late 1940's and I would find the next component for him to solder, so learning the values.. I was hooked after that. But those things were very expensive.
I ended up learning electronics in the RAF on air radar this was after the Queen asked me if I would like to help her run the RAF for a bit.
regards Roy

joppyuk1 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 04, 2014, 11:58:53 am »

You could say - 67 - as I haven't got there yet but plan to have something simple in my next boat. Just trying to make a decision on what it will be! It doesn't help that the nearest model shop that could help is some 30 miles away in a town I rarely visit.

grendel · « **Reply #21 on:** July 04, 2014, 01:01:46 pm »

about 14 I guess, at the local youth club, a modeller started classes (he bought his wife who ran the badmington) the youth club subsidized the purchase of Horizon RC units and we all built a few planes and boats from the same sets of plans (powered flight, gliders and I believe it was a leander class frigate).
Grendel

TomHugill · « **Reply #22 on:** July 04, 2014, 01:13:52 pm »

I bought my first boat at the tender age of 26. My first robbe Najade, which I sold to a fella on here. Things have spiralled slightly to the annoyance of the mrs!

dougal99 · « **Reply #23 on:** July 04, 2014, 01:44:46 pm »

14 or 15 with Galloping Ghost RC built into an Oxo tin as Tx. Crashed the plane and never got the boat in the water. Long hiatus, the took up model boating aged about 50. Built a free plan stealth boat from model boats to get on the water and then a Brittany Trawler from a purchased plan. Now on my 12 or 13th boat (I've lost count

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colin-d · « **Reply #24 on:** July 04, 2014, 01:58:02 pm »

as most boys... i started out at about the age of 12 with control line aircraft...
at some time i acquired a used Sea Commander (boat) and a MacGregor push button RC gear..
could not have been much over 14 years old, then i acquired a Ripmax Futabe (cream in colour) now was it four or six channel i can not remember... this radio gear was used in aircraft...
later in life i transferred to boat again and bought my self a Brand Electronic Microprop gear, a while later i switched to Grauper and now have and still have for over 20 years
2x Graupner JR 214
1x Graupner JR 4014
1x Graupner JR 414
2x Graupner JR 6014

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