Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Model Boating => Topic started by: Just Add Water on May 21, 2015, 07:33:56 pm
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This how model boating should be done
Check out the silencer and the Tuned pipe on this Power Boat I need to go back to the drawing table. :-X :-X :-X
:police: needed.
https://youtu.be/JAXUt4yMAM4
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I'd love to laugh at it, but I don't know where to start.. Perhaps the perspex greenhouse to stop the water getting in, maybe the the header made from radiator pipe. Maybe even the sprite can 'silencer'. Just too much to choose from {-)
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Bless him, he probably spent nearly an hour building that!
The next video is of him losing control due to water in the servo, flipping, then sinking without trace due to no buoyancy!
That is a "special section" micro tuned pipe with superlite resonance amplifier - which can appear to be a bit of 15mm copper pipe and a Sprite can to the unknowing!! O0
Cheers
Danny
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That boat reminded me of this:
(http://s5.postimg.org/ndy39onzb/2012_07_15_13_50_57.jpg)
which I saw a few years ago. - Tom
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It is easy to laugh %)
Judging by the accents this could be a part of Europe where the luxury of buying a purpose made hull (no money), tuned exhaust, and other parts ready to FIT, is not there.
If they have ENGINEERED the manifold, and exhaust pipe, designed and built a hull (albeit basic), then they are on a path towards learning some interesting stuff. I have no doubt that they will have learning experiences (disasters) on the way. But they will learn more than we ever would with out factory prepared stuff.
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This video reminds me of what my friends and I where doing 50 odd years ago.
Had to get a bank loan for motors, no premade hulls, very basic rc, (was also part of the bank loan), The rest we made.
We learned very quickly, what worked and what didn't. And being in NZ, in our pre and early teens, if you wanted something, you saved up Postal Notes in UK Pounds, and sent to the UK, Japan for the engines and rc.
These guys will do ok, and each time they build will be better.
Good on them for trying, and succeeding.
cheers
:-))
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On our French forum we had a boy like that, he was fifteen years old.
He made us laugh.
We encouraged a lot him
He is now 24 years old, he is an engineer he is an excellent designer
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I'ts easy to laugh, as TT says, at other's endeavours, but I have seen grown men come to Fleetwood lake, who have spent many many hours on building a beautiful model, put them into the lake only for them to either come close to sinking or even capsize because they have not put a combing around their superstructure fitting, or forgotten to put ballast into a lifeboat.......
I confess, that I would have absolutely no idea as to how to set up a boat like these guys have done, and rather than take the p***, why not try an encouraging comment on the post.
Perhaps you should have stayed in "The Pub" Andy, if you are going to mock those who strive to endeavour!
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Nice to see you again too, Neil {-)
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Its a pity we did not see if it run .
Andy I've seen you build a lot worse than that !
OK so it's good to see someone who has had a go at building a power boat and I'm sure he will make lots of changes along the way, We all did.
I've seen recently power boats held together with duct tape to see then till the end of the day and I'm sure I will again. Happy Days I say ! :-)) '
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Just cos everybody else does it one way doesn't make them right! ( although they usually are!). We learn nothing by copying others ( but usually we do!).
I ran an electric boat looking much like this once, just as a test you understand. With a bin bag taped over the rear deck to keep the water out. What I learned that day was that parcel tape is not waterproof and neither was my waterproof box!
THAT was a learning day :-)
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Glad you liked the video ;)
My first boat was 2 feet long had a battery that weighed 2 tons ish a motor that pushed it along at close to 10 mph and lasted about 4 mins a bit different to the boat I am building now it has a 5.4 HP petrol motor is 4 feet long and can possibly reach 40 Mph.
But I must try the Sprite can silencer.
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But I must try the Sprite can silencer.
A Fanta can, surely.
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An Orangina can I think.
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But I must try the Sprite can silencer.
Mock as you may... I have seen a tin can (beer can) used as a silencer at a Naviga World Championship. Taped on to the tuned pipe it worked sufficiently to bring some of the big 35s under the required noise level..... Have to see if I have a pic somewhere.
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Everyone seems to be snorting COKE, blowing through COKE seems to be a better idea