Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Bob K on June 27, 2016, 07:44:33 pm
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This is an invitation to see who can come up with the dumbest idea, model boat related.
Here's my 'brainwave': Instead of using 2Kg of lead weights to ballast your model, use big Neodymium magnets instead. That way you can just pop the ship on the steel roof of your car for instant transportability. %%
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This was not my idea but it's right up there with "dumb" Charging the batteries of a model submarine in situ (without removing the watertight casing).
The resulting hydrogen explosion drove the sub 15 feet along a work surface and through a breeze block wall!
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I can do dumb...years ago, the late Bernie Wood and I drove all the way up to Derby for a sub day. Got there, unpacked the car, got my boat on the bench, took the deck off ready to turn the radio on...then discovered that I'd left the transmitter back at home. <:(
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Getting out of bed in the morning %) %)
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Here's my 'brainwave': Instead of using 2Kg of lead weights to ballast your model, use big Neodymium magnets instead. That way you can just pop the ship on the steel roof of your car for instant transportability. %%
not if you own a soft top car, lol.
Jim.
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Thinking that Model Boat Mayhem would be boring & I'd only stay for a week or so {-)...............Derek
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I've often seen folk struggling with big heavy tugs, so my idea is to use aluminium for ballast because it's much lighter. O0
DM
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Now why didn't I think of that Dave.
ken
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Using the magnets, it might be OK driving north and south, but I foresee a problem going east or west.
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Drill a hole in the bottom of your boat so that if you get a leak the water can get out easily. Simples!
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Drill a hole in the bottom of your boat so that if you get a leak the water can get out easily. Simples!
Now that's the kind of genuine "dumb idea" I was prompting for. Excellent :-))
Underwater freeing port ?
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If you do carry a yacht on the roof rack,
leave the sails up to save fuel and assist braking.
Ned
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If you do carry a yacht on the roof rack,
leave the sails up to save fuel and assist braking.
Ned
Awesome {-) Tee Hee !!! :embarrassed:
Q: Do you need to operate the sail winch from your Tx whilst driving :D
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Yep :-))
Gives you more miles to the Galleon {:-{
Ned
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Using the magnets, it might be OK driving north and south, but I foresee a problem going east or west.
ah but if you place your boat crossways over the roof instead of longitudinally...you'll be ok for going east to west so long as the bow is turned to north. lol
Jim.
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If you do carry a yacht on the roof rack,
leave the sails up to save fuel and assist braking.
Ned
Don't forget to open the sunroof to allow for
the keel.
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If you do carry a yacht on the roof rack,
leave the sails up to save fuel and assist braking.Ned
Doesn't everybody? Or is it just me? O0
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Yep :-))
Gives you more miles to the Galleon {:-{
Ned
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I have been working hard on a hover vacuum :}
Both parts work till I put them together
andrew
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I have been working hard on a hover vacuum :}
Both parts work till I put them together
andrew
Nice one Andrew :-))
Suggestion: Cant you just swap over the red and black wires on the motor, the same as you do when you need to reverse one of a pair of model boat motors ?
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Might be an age thing, but -
I changed a windscreen wiper a few days ago. Surprised at the colour of the blade (green). Went on easily, but it was better at rearranging whatever was on the screen than removing it. I decided to check the green blade for cleanliness and eventually it started to slide. The black blade that was revealed works a lot better than its cover did.
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This could be in the medical section but on sunday I impaled my arm.
Lifting my 25kilo pillar drill off the bench to get a bit more work space, I lowered it to the floor and about 6 inches from touching down and stooped over, I impaled my arm on a stainless steel rod poking from under the bench. I couldn't stand up because of the weight, I couldn't let go because of the distance, all the while feeling the rod going a little bit deeper.
Shouting for swimbo din't work so eventually I had to drop the thing, then un - impale myself, no blood to speak of just a deep hole! Now that is dumb!
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do not do this, carrying cylinder head off Cummins 220 not big but heavy, could not quite get it on the bench so had to lift a bit higher and right up to the metal bench ,angle iron edge , get the picture ,men's bits now on bench because had to reach up and tight up to the bench ,( stop laughing) then put cylinder head down rather heavy .You do not have to guess much to no the outcome ,STOP LAUGHING.
DAVID
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I have been working hard on a hover vacuum :}
Both parts work till I put them together
andrew
There did used to be a hover vacuum cleaner when I was a kid, I seem to remember it as a round chrome ball.....
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This could be in the medical section but on sunday I impaled my arm.
Shouting for swimbo din't work so eventually I had to drop the thing, then un - impale myself, no blood to speak of just a deep hole! Now that is dumb!
.... I feel a little green! {:-{
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.... I feel a little green! {:-{
I just fainted...........need a brandy, quick, please.
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There did used to be a hover vacuum cleaner when I was a kid, I seem to remember it as a round chrome ball.....
Strewth Martin - I never realised you were that old http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/hoover-constell-28319 (http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/hoover-constell-28319)
DM
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That's the one DM!!! {-) {-)
I think they was still around a decade or so later!
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Strewth Martin - I never realised you were that old http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/hoover-constell-28319 (http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/hoover-constell-28319)
DM
:o :o Well, I am not going to tell you that they were also available here in OZ. O0 O0 O0
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I have been working hard on a hover vacuum :}
Ooops Andrew, maybe not such a 'dumb idea' after all. Nice try though {-)
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Won't float up the blinkin' stairs though. :embarrassed:
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I seem to remember a plan during WW2 when the US invasion of southern France was being prepared. Someone had a bright idea to pack landing craft with explosives, and guided by radio-control to the mined beaches where they would detonate and make landings safer for troops. It never occurred to the planners that the radio frequency to be used was the same as the German shore communication and the resulting chaos when the landing craft went out of 'control', went round in circles, hit the wrong beach and even turned round and headed for the invasion fleet. Destroyers had to be called in to, ahem, destroy the manic landing-craft, after which, the idea was abandoned. Dumb, eh? %)
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Reference damaging one's male parts...whilst out in the back communial lawns flying my Chinook, something caught the corner of my eye. I lost concentration for a millisecond, but in that time the heli had turned full circle, and was flying backwards...straight into my 'gentleman's area'.
Now, as you'll know, a Chinook has a lot of blades which revolve at quite a high speed.
To say it hurt would be an understatement...
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Voting in an election!!!!
Aussie's go to the polls on Saturday!!!
Which one DUMB or DUMBER!!!!!!! {:-{ :(( >>:-( <*< <:(
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Chinese pilot was aiming for the chin but hit you in the nooks!!!
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I seem to remember a plan during WW2 when the US invasion of southern France was being prepared. Someone had a bright idea to pack landing craft with explosives, and guided by radio-control to the mined beaches where they would detonate and make landings safer for troops. It never occurred to the planners that the radio frequency to be used was the same as the German shore communication and the resulting chaos when the landing craft went out of 'control', went round in circles, hit the wrong beach and even turned round and headed for the invasion fleet. Destroyers had to be called in to, ahem, destroy the manic landing-craft, after which, the idea was abandoned. Dumb, eh? %)
Trust the Germans not to use a pegboard %%
Ned
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I was changing a battery in a portable radio and having taken the old 9V battery out (the kind with the 2 press studs on the end) I dropped the battery in my trouser pocket and fitted the new one. Battery changed I started to tune the radio in to Radio 1 and then noticed extreme heat building up in my nether regions and smoke coming out of my pocket. I realised at once that the 9V battery despite being almost completely discharged was shorting out across my spare change (not a euphemism!)
I was desperately fishing in my pocket to retrieve the battery when, the now, red hot coins burned through my pocket and fell down my trouser leg. Gyrating around I managed to kick the coins out of the cuff of my trousers and on to the floor at which point my gaffer looked up from his newspaper and said "Found something you can dance too, then?"
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Won't float up the blinkin' stairs though. :embarrassed:
I remember my auntie being very proud of hers around 1963 or so when I was but a wee nipper.
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Talk about dumb! If I had bought my wife one of these for her Christmas I know where she would have put it!! O0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK_v76vkVMs
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Surprisingly there were a lot more dumb blokes around those days, as every second home had one.
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Hi all, when I was young, innocent and did not think too far ahead I decided to clean out the gutters on my newly acquired house. I borrowed my neighbours wooden ladder and cheerfully went up to shovel out the 'sand' (cement roof tiles?). I half filled the bucket and decided to go down and move the ladder further along.
I got down about 5 steps before gravity took over as I was now a lot heavier than when I went up! The rung I was on collapsed as did all those below and I ended standing up on the ground with the ladder sides supporting me under my arms.
I should have taken note of Gerard Hoffnung' s dire warnings of similar events in his 1958 address to the Oxford Union.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiossOtTvso (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiossOtTvso) Be prepared to wipe the tears from your eyes!
I was not hurt apart from pride just being very surprised.
My neighbour took back his ladder and did not require any compensation as I think he was glad it was me not him!
regards Roy
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Also in song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxaCfJfw6AY
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Hi all, when I was young, innocent and did not think too far ahead I decided to clean out the gutters on my newly acquired house. I borrowed my neighbours wooden ladder and cheerfully went up to shovel out the 'sand' (cement roof tiles?). I half filled the bucket and decided to go down and move the ladder further along.
I got down about 5 steps before gravity took over as I was now a lot heavier than when I went up! The rung I was on collapsed as did all those below and I ended standing up on the ground with the ladder sides supporting me under my arms.
I should have taken note of Gerard Hoffnung' s dire warnings of similar events in his 1958 address to the Oxford Union.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiossOtTvso (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiossOtTvso) Be prepared to wipe the tears from your eyes!
I was not hurt apart from pride just being very surprised.
My neighbour took back his ladder and did not require any compensation as I think he was glad it was me not him!
regards Roy
I've done exactly the same - except I didn't get to the ground - I stopped when the broken rungs had dug into my leg and ripped my leg open from ankle to hip. {:-{