Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Model Boating => Topic started by: andrewh on January 16, 2009, 12:49:59 pm
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Fellow Mayhemmers
I am trying to fill in some gaps in my/our knowledge about the application of brushless motors in REAL applications.
You are WONDERFUL people, and I have had a lot of help and advice in lots of areas - which I have attempted to pass on in Brushless Basics.
I am a fairly new boatie, and my main personal interest is in scale sail and small racing tachts (Footys) so I have very little suitable material to make trials with, apart from my BL trial boat - the fastest Footy Hull EVER.
So, here is the question.
I would like to fit a bulky hull with a suitable direct drive Brushless system, and find what prop works etc. I have neither hull nor motor but am posting this in optimism.
Does anyone have a Tug , or tug hull, which is lying idle for the next few weeks?
or indeed any hull with a lot of displacement?
Would you like to do some tests? would you like to loan it? Does anyone have a 375KV to 500 KV brushless?
Can we do Mayhem magic to boldly go where etc.?
Will I have to make a Springer?
Meaning a large wooden one - I am already making a 6inch steam springer - but that's secret
andrew the optimist
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but that's secret
Andrew, while there's still time, simply PM all 2363 members, telling them not to look at this thread - that'll ensure your security. %%
Andy E193VVM
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First of all were do you live.
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Ron1,
I'm in Leicester, UK, reasonably mobile and have an Espace.
Andy - man of a thousand numbers
If it wasn't for Captain Haddock I might not recognise you when you post :}
I trust that Dreadnought will be BL when planked? It's no more of an anachronism that discussing radar rates of rotation on the ship.
I have a tentative plan for a cardboard tug*, but Mayhemmers are being as enormously helpful as I would expect :-))
*Triple diagonal cornflake planking over a foam plug using emulsion paint as a glue
Or possibly Puffer :}
andrew
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Hi Andrew,
Your box is on the way, you may even have it by now.
Computer's been off, so unable to contact you.
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You can borrow this one if you like. O0 O0
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Damn saw this too late, still got the b***** huntsman in the loft...
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So Andrewh , your not interested in my 57 inch dredger, its based on a tug hull.
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Ron,
I am very sorry to not have replied - I have not been able to access a computer for several days for long enough to reply.
Thank you very much for the kind offer - judging by the paving slabs and my Mk 1 eyeball it must be about 30 to 36 inches long?
I think that you are in the cheshire area, if i remember right (not that I do nowadays). Could you please tell me what the original motor was, or is?
Best regards,
andrew
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Andrewh, It is 57 inch long, 11 inches wide, never had a motor in it, that I can remember. ;) ;)
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Andrewh, It is 53 inch long, 11 inches wide, never had a motor in it, that I can remember. ;) ;)
needs a prop shaft.
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Ron,
Good grief! T'would hardly fit in my Espace! That is big and certainly meets the High displacement definition.
Thank you very much for the offer - I have been completely amazed and moved by the sheer helpfullness and generosity of the Mayhem crew.
I have had several kind offers and two boats have arrived! Thank you kind friend :}
I cannot take you up on this - the size is beyond my experience or expectation - and I cannot, in the year of giving away my daughter (in marriage), expect to afford a large diameter brushless.
So thanks, Ron, but no thank you.
best regards,
andrew
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, in the year of giving away my daughter (in marriage),
Buy a ladder and tell her to elope. :-))
Better buy a safety helmet as well {-)