Model Boat Mayhem
The Shipyard ( Dry Dock ): Builds & Questions => Working Vessels => Topic started by: Cargo on September 09, 2007, 08:01:50 pm
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Now that i am starting and getting the feeling that shes now my boat and not Martins and Bradders anymore, i start a new thread about it. Again many thanks to them!
We started today the repair, it will be a bit picture-heavy ;)
Lets start with the damages and repairs...
The roof was broken and the Master lost his left arm. Never had any chance gluing that arm without removing the roof. Smartly Martin left the wire of the roof lamp long enough ;)
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The roof itself was glued and "epoxyid" back...
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The ladder was broken, now soldered together...
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The row boat was also damaged, now repaired.
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Again... :D
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And ready O0
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The funnel is not ready and the rudder needs now 24 hours to let the glue dry. But the chaintubes and the mainswitch are glued back allready. The rest of the repair follows... 8)
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:o Excellent!
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Thx, the repair of the transport damage is not very heavy. A large radix complement to the designers of the Maid ... O0
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Thx to Martin, Bradders and Willy O0
Btw a new batterie for my Tx is on its way, the old one is broken >:(
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Hello,
continues to go the repair in my small dockyard … step by step
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Force adhesive
(http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/99/697999/3761306134616339.jpg)
20° C 12 hours 1200 N/cm2
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Final treatment with 2K screeding compound... sharpen, sharpen, sharpen + color
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O0
Looking good :)
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Little update
Repair reeling port side
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Steam siren ….
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The captain has the line steam siren now over the head in the cabin ::)
http://userblogs.free-radio.de/media/Schiffssirene.wav (http://userblogs.free-radio.de/media/Schiffssirene.wav)
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O0
This looks really good Willy :)
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Repair done, thx a lot Willy O0
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Brilliant work Jan...thumbs up to you for a fine job well done O0 O0
Regards: Voyager
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Thx. :)
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Willy........ BRILLIANT! :o
.......... and Jan didn't have to wait another 10 years :embarrassed:
All you need now to ballast the boat is all the lead off the local church!
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Thank you, it was a gladly done work for a good friend.
Now, it still goes at the trimming the waterline and then, can Jan finish the season at the 03.10.2007 on an Event in Hamburg O0
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Hello friends,
tomorrow we will execute a swimming-test of the buffer.... Pictures follow.
I trimmed (in the bathtub :angel: ) the ship, however without further ballast as the 2 lead accumulators.... the trip-attempts will then show what still is possible in order to get a trip-picture of a badly laden buffer.... let's look once...
(http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/99/697999/3039623965316663.jpg)
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Tomorrow we will get her bum wet, maybe a little bit more weight is necessary but we will see :D
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Here is the story so far from today...
Her bum is wet, looked well on the water. But some difficulties occured. So lets start with the nice part...
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Shes very top-heavy, the whellhouse is very heavy. The main batteries are placed as low as possible, together they weight 5.6 Kg. If there is no wind she sails fine, but turning in some fresh winds...
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I think we need some more weight down below.
Other problems: the esc gets to hot, needs to be replaced. And the Smoke-Generator needs a fan.
Shes to fast, engine with 3.000 rpm rather than the 5.500 now should be fine.
Video (danger: 11 mb): Maid of Scotland (http://www.modelltruck.net/videos/maiden.mov)
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Nice job Jan!! Hope you don't mind but I think it looks better with a little photoshop help! ;)
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O0
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Haven't got the pictures to hand but took mine out - it was very choppy, I had to bring the Aziz in before it did a "Kenny"
The highlander does sway a lot in the waves - alarmingly so. I had water on the decks with mine ballasted onto the waterline. I winder if it has more to do with the shape of the boat - the bulk of the weight of mine is below the waterline.
Wom
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I think its the shape of the hull and the white-metal parts. Maybe Mountfleet Models should change them to resin. The wheelhouse is very heavy ???
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Hi Jan......
Hmmm! Not good. :(
Did you you try It without the wheelhouse to see if it made any difference?
What are other peoples experiences of ballasting the Mountfleet Highlander Puffer?
Martin.
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Did you you try It without the wheelhouse to see if it made any difference?
Worth a try... ;)
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Nice looking Puffer Jan.
I am so jealous need to get on with mine. All the pictures I have seen of a puffer they always seem to be very low in the water, up to the top rubbing strip. Heaven knows what they were like in heavy seas. I do think the superstructure and the wheelhouse are a bit on the heavy side, well they are on my Sealight. The superstructure is quite a thick grp moulding.
Brian
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The wheelhouse alone weights 0.77 Kg :o
Willy has the puffer again, some more lead will be placed low in the hull. Hope this might help a bit O0
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Jan
I had a look at the plans for my puffer (Sealight) and the water line is just below the angle of the top rubbing strip. Where is the water line for your pufer shown on the plans?
Brian
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The drawings are still with Martin ???
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OK, I'll blame it on Bradders.... ;)
I'll email photos of the plan when I go back down to the dungeon / workshop.
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Thx Martin, they arrived safely ;D
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Thx Martin, they arrived safely ;D
Sorry to late ::)
Little update: Today i trim the Puffer with lead.
Before: Waterline trim with lead-akkus (4880gr)
(http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/99/697999/1280_3964623033393132.jpg)
Today: Waterline trim = lead-Akkus (4880gr) + lead rolled plate (2250gr)
(http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/99/697999/1280_3833336331336339.jpg)
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What do you say?
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Looking good O0
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Have you got your launching crane ready Jan! :o
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Have you got your launching crane ready Jan! :o
What is the problem Martin.... I something wrong made?
The wheelhouse has a weight of ca. 750 gram.... additional load approx.. ca. 7150 gram.... this results in one puts up quotients of 1:9 (theoretically)
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Yes Willy, we thought it was very heavy too :o
But what comes in the kit. :-\
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Which you say to the waters line martin.
I have the ship extremely on the side put (waterlinie to scarce under freeboard)... it straightened up fast again, without one drip water to have on board taken
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Have you got your launching crane ready Jan! :o
Hehehehe... but thats what we both exspected! There was an article about a MFM Highlander, he used two heavy batteries and a load of lead. Just around 10-12 Kg. :D
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Hello friends,
that is my first attempt with youtube... I will still practice. .... Promised ;) ;) ;)
A small video of the first (Germans) test travel of the MoS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV06qQ7kJ-w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JV06qQ7kJ-w)
The Puffer is again trimmed... Pictures of the new test run come then the next days. O0
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The biggest problems are now sorted out (again thx. to Willy). Today we made some seatrials, the new and better esc is not overheating and Willy was able to trimm down the Puffer, even on sharp turns she sails very well and very stable now O0 ;D
Video as .wmv file (http://www.modelltruck.net/videos/testp.wmv)
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Looking GOOD! O0
What been done so far?
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Added more weight, replaced the esc. Next thing to be done is the smoke generator, he needs a fan to work better ;)
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Jan
She is looking really good, sits just right on the water now.
Brian
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Talking of smoke units..... http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=3471.msg61620;topicseen#msg61620
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The Hunter System Generator is good, he produces a great amount of smoke. He only needs some help of a small fan for example O0
Gimme Steam (http://www.modelltruck.net/videos/steam.wmv)
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Last day of the season and thx to Willy because he made the Puffer ready-to-run so i was able to get there today. She sits perfect on the water, handles very well. Here are 3 pics and a video. It was a very nice day with lots of sunshine and many boats on the lake. Perfect O0 ;D
Video (http://www.modelltruck.net/videos/big.wmv)
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Hallo,
i found today a little nice Vid by youtube (Virtuall Sailor):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfufZNb4kNM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfufZNb4kNM)
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Sunday back to the pond, pictures and small vids will follow tomorow ;)
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Hi Jan! :)
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Hi mate O0 :)
need a new and better servo for the rudder. I never buy cheap servos again >>:-(
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Small vid from today. (http://www.modelltruck.net/videos/today.wmv)
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Just a pic from her "old" days... ;)
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Hello my Lords
Jan's buffer is currently in my small yard. The smoke has been improved. I've installed two 12V PC fan, one was throttled to 6V for a replica, model without driving. The other fan is an electonic components - a bridge - from the drive motor supply depends on the speed with power. The function is given in forward and reverse. Accordance to increase the speed or the low protective smoke emissions.
Here are a few pictures, as I have solved it:
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Full Throttle
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Full throttle to stop machine
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Here's a little test video in our small garden pond unfortunately
Pressed gently ==>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWP-MdQy0IY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWP-MdQy0IY)
Regards, Willy
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Exelent work mate, it looks much better this way :-))
Quite nice to see how much smoke the Hunter smoker generates!
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Great to see her again - and still looking good! Smoke generation most impressive. Thanks, Willy for showing us the update.
Mike
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Model ship meeting 02. - 04.07.2010 Edersee Germany / Hessen
A few black white Impressions from the buffer
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Night time activity! She must be smuggling whisky!!
Mike
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:-)) :-)) :-))
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:police:
After getting out of the prison (bribed the judge with some crates of Scotch) we sailed the "Maid" back to my homewaters. I removed the Rx and sold it with the whole remote (40MHz Graupner MC-12). Now i switch her to 2.4 Ghz with a Spektrum DX5e.
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Good decision skipper :-))
@ Jan, melde Dich wenn der Austtellungstermin näher rückt :police:
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It seems there is no show planed this year Willy {:-{
The puffer is switched to 2.4 ghz. But now the cheap servo is broken, i replace it for a digital servo... probably next week.
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Everything works fine now but i needed to re-calibrate the rx and the speedcontroller. The Action sound generator was also recalibrated and works correct now.
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good things take time
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But strangely with esc in mode 2 i received interferences with the steering servo. Now we plugged the esc to the right stick and the rudder to the left stick... and this works %)
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Inverted world Jan. Who should deal with it ..... %) %) %)
Ferrite to the cable from the power steering solve the problem. Have you this tested?
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yepp but didn´t solved the problem.