Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Charlie on July 23, 2018, 02:02:32 PM
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Mine's a sweltering 35.5 Degrees Celsius, in the shade. Can anyone beat that?
Charlie
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Currently 38.8, with both windows and door wide open. Has been up to 43 once last week.
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All windows and doors open, current indoor temp 37, outdoors in full sun 44. The joys of living in Spain! you've not lived until you are asleep on your feet because its still too hot to lay down in bed. Many are the nights I have got up several times and jumped in the shower to cool down. Last year I took it to extremes and was swimming in the pool at 3am just because it was so hot.
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Disgustingly hot here today at RAF Akrotiri! On average we’re getting in the high 30s but our intake temp probes have registered 46 and at one point 51!!! And that’s on an aircraft that didn’t have engines running!
I know last out here in August it hit 52 on the pan and I was drinking close to 4 litres of water an hour- not good! No wonder I lost three stone in weight! It’s not just the heat, the humidity has been awful at night, especially working in a metal hangar.
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haven't a clue, but I really should turn my heaters off {-) {-) {-) wasting electricity..... {:-{ :((
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All windows and doors open, current indoor temp 37, outdoors in full sun 44. The joys of living in Spain! you've not lived until you are asleep on your feet because its still too hot to lay down in bed. Many are the nights I have got up several times and jumped in the shower to cool down. Last year I took it to extremes and was swimming in the pool at 3am just because it was so hot.
ooohhhhh!!! Brian, my heart bleeds for you. {-) {-) {-) %% %% %%
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'It's hot enough to boil a monkeys bum'.
Come on, who can remember?
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'It's hot enough to boil a monkeys bum'.
Come on, who can remember?
It ain't arf hot mum?
My studio is on a mezzanine and it must have been around the early thirties today. I took my boots off and sat with them on an aluminium plate placed on the floor. A big grey cloud went over and did nothing except make it a bit cooler.
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Does anyone remember the good old days when it used to rain all through July.
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Don't worry, it won't last.... The schools are now on summer holidays so the rain is on its way..
Paul....
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Don't worry, it won't last.... The schools are now on summer holidays so the rain is on its way..
Paul....
not this week its not.…………...i'm loving it......great summer.
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The mid to high 30s is indeed very hot for the UK, but a normal summer here. Somehow even 28 seems hot in Britain, I have been there when it was that hot and it seemed much hotter than a similar temperature here at home. Perhaps it's because the buildings aren't designed to cope with high temperatures? We are in the middle of our winter at present and, while the morning temps are from -1 to 3, it warms up to the low to mid 20s, and we live in the sub tropics. It's much colder in southern NSW and Victoria, as well as on the tablelands to the west of us.
Peter.
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The mid to high 30s is indeed very hot for the UK, but a normal summer here. Somehow even 28 seems hot in Britain, I have been there when it was that hot and it seemed much hotter than a similar temperature here at home. Perhaps it's because the buildings aren't designed to cope with high temperatures? We are in the middle of our winter at present and, while the morning temps are from -1 to 3, it warms up to the low to mid 20s, and we live in the sub tropics. It's much colder in southern NSW and Victoria, as well as on the tablelands to the west of us.
Peter.
I REMEMBER in Canberra, Peter it was so cold in the mornings that on two consecutive days it registered -13 and -15 before warming up to a balmy +15...……..and on the coldest of the two days it was so cold that it froze the oil filled steering box on my '51 MG TD, and reversing out the drive I shot up the rockery bed of the neighbours house over the road, being unable to steer............who says it doesn't get cold in OZ, {-) %%
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For those of you suffering the sun please remember the Ozzie Ad. to:
SLIP, SLOP, SLAP
Slip on a top, slop on suncream and slap on a hat. O0
Skin cancer is NASTY. 8)
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I feel for you guys in the UK. its not nice getting those temperatures day in and day out.
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78F/26C in my shop in Tomball, Texas, USA. ;) 100F/38C outside. <:(
Howzat? Air conditioning! :-))
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Here in Denmark I got 33°C outside and 29°C in the workshop %%
No AC in the house and the heat will continue the next week at least, one is only allowed to use propane BBQ's due to the drought and danger for flash fires, and yes everything is now brown.
Last year were one of the wettest and coldest summers in DK and this year has already broken several records as the driest and warmest in many years.
I have had to buy a vine-refrigeratory to protect my vine <*<
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I REMEMBER in Canberra, Peter it was so cold in the mornings that on two consecutive days it registered -13 and -15 before warming up to a balmy +15...……..and on the coldest of the two days it was so cold that it froze the oil filled steering box on my '51 MG TD, and reversing out the drive I shot up the rockery bed of the neighbours house over the road, being unable to steer............who says it doesn't get cold in OZ, {-) %%
It's very cold in Canberra now Neil, although there's a lot of hot air coming from Parliament House......as usual {-) . However, Canberra is 900 km south of us.
Peter.
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Got up at 7 this morning its been a horrible sticky humid night. Temperature in the lounge has stuck at 33c all night even with leaving every single window in the house open. Will get much hotter inside today once the sun starts cooking the outer walls of the house again.
I do wish we had aircon!
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Hi it's John V i know when it's going to rain in Peterborough on Ron Deans open day cheers John V
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Time to resurrect this thread i think. -6 degrees for me today, i don't think i will be getting much done <:(
Anyone else either very cold or very hot? (i'm thinking about some of our members down under for this)
Charlie
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37°C in Canberra. It can get up to 47°C.
Jerry.
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We are not sure what to expect in Oz.
Severe floods in Queensland, Drought in N.S.W. and last evening we had gales, thunder and lightning and torrential rain for an hour in Melbourne but it did not put out the bushfires. >>:-(
Temperatures this week from 47 c. to 15 c. %%
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Got up at 7 this morning its been a horrible sticky humid night. Temperature in the lounge has stuck at 33c all night even with leaving every single window in the house open. Will get much hotter inside today once the sun starts cooking the outer walls of the house again.
I do wish we had aircon!
Whilst wondering what to make when in the doldrums - why not make your own aircon device, it should be relatively simple.
A car battery
a car radiator fan
a car window screen wash pump
flexible tubing
a cloth mat
basically - build two trays to hold water (garden planters say window sill type), build a frame that holds one at the top and one at the bottom, with the car radiator fan held between, the tubing connects both with the washer pump in the circuit, the top tray has a small cut out along the top of one edge where the cloth mat is fixed to hang over so it falls into the bottom tray, the slot is deeper than the mat) the battery 12v transformer powers the fan and the pump.
the top tray is filled with water to the brim, as it is soaked up by the mat it soaks the mat and if the water overflows the slot it then flows down the mat until it completely soaks it and then fills into the bottom tray, the pump then takes the water to the top tray, filling the top tray so it completely soaks the mat is the main idea, the fan then blows air through the mat, cooling any air, the circulating water then keeps refreshing the wet mat, just need to have a porous cloth mat to allow the air to pass through and an auto water refill for the top tray due to evaporation and water blown off by the fan.
Any thoughts?
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A nice comfy 21 degrees in my indoor workshop right now.
Looking out the window I can't help thinking "God help (model) mariners on a night like this"
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Nice! I dream of one of those. Maybe one day when the kids move out.....
A nice comfy 21 degrees in my indoor workshop right now.
Looking out the window I can't help thinking "God help (model) mariners on a night like this"
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I went for a run up to our local lake yesterday, and it was 70% frozen. I would think it is completely frozen over this morning. Whenever it does this i think it would be so cool to have an RC Icebreaker out doing it's stuff. But i have never got around to building one yet! Maybe this year.....
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We are not sure what to expect in Oz.
Severe floods in Queensland, Drought in N.S.W. and last evening we had gales, thunder and lightning and torrential rain for an hour in Melbourne but it did not put out the bushfires. >>:-(
Temperatures this week from 47 c. to 15 c. %%
I am working Australia at the Moment . Have to agree on the Weather I seen 40 to 15. Heavy Heavy rain with Lighting etc
John
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-5°C in Peterborough this morning, threats of snow.
Really dodgy driving to work... so drove very quickly before I had an accident!
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Not sure what it was this morning - I haven't been out there. Yesterday it was 5 degrees, and that's in a fully insulated, double glazed construction, with a 120 watt heater running 24/7.
Soon warms up with a 2 Kw fan heater.
Barrie
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I went for a run up to our local lake yesterday, and it was 70% frozen. I would think it is completely frozen over this morning. Whenever it does this i think it would be so cool to have an RC Icebreaker out doing it's stuff. But i have never got around to building one yet! Maybe this year.....
We have tried that with tugs.
The ice is one of the best paint removers around.
Anchors also succumbed to the ice.
Ned
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It's no good bashing the ice. Full size icebreakers ride up on thick ice and use the weight of the ship to crack it and push it under and away. I suspect you might have scaling down problems with that approach on a model.
Colin
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Simple answer r ddy freezing.
Stan.
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I went for a run up to our local lake yesterday, and it was 70% frozen. I would think it is completely frozen over this morning. Whenever it does this i think it would be so cool to have an RC Icebreaker out doing it's stuff. But i have never got around to building one yet! Maybe this year.....
Don't break the ice, enjoy it. Get yourself an airboat and go whizzing around at high speed. That's what I did today at our club morning. My home-brewed airboat was slaloming around at all sorts of crazy angles, steering was a bit hit and miss, but oh boy, was it fun! Everything was going great until........
Ooooops...... :(( :((
(https://modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/images/2019/01/31/crunch1.jpg)
(https://modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/images/2019/01/31/crunch2.jpg)
That's the problem with a concrete wall round the lake - it leaps out at you and spoils your fun! Oh well, nothing a bit of filler won't fix. :embarrassed: :embarrassed:
Greg
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These guys have certainly 'Cracked' it {-) {-) {-)
https://youtu.be/j3Y_3QiLt2w (https://youtu.be/j3Y_3QiLt2w)
It's no good bashing the ice. Full size icebreakers ride up on thick ice and use the weight of the ship to crack it and push it under and away. I suspect you might have scaling down problems with that approach on a model.
Colin
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Excellent video there! Just how it should be done but you need the weight of a big model.Colin
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Current temp -12deg shed is 5mts x 6mts height to ridge approx. 5mts , supper efficient pellet boiler in the corner ,GIVES OF NO EXTERNAL HEAT = no shed work .
David
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my workshop is either the kitchen table (21 degrees C) or the conservatory which has the benches and tools, (5 degrees C) no heating, but it acts as an insulation barrier for the house, absorbing all the heat thrown out from the walls, the house, well since we had the cavity walls done the whole house is heated from a single radiator in the downstairs toilet, maybe 2 foot square, set to 2 , and that keeps it a comfy 21 degrees downstairs. upstairs there is the heated towel rail, plus the hot water pipes to the boiler under the floor. which keeps that a comfortable 19-20 degrees. the only problem is in the summer when the conservatory can top out over 40 degrees.
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0 degrees in Plymouth this morning.
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Zero degrees in West Kent as well. Much milder than yesterday. Only a very small amount of snow last night.
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Minus four. ...with the oil radiator on. <:(
Andy
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I'm lucky I have a 10m2 room i the house as work shop and as some may have seen I also use the dinning table :-)) So the temperature is 21-22°C.
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74 F with the A/C on. :-))
Let's see, that's about 23 C?
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It’s been around 35 to 40 Celsius in my shed for the last couple of months, good for losing weight 🤪
Peter.
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43 degrees in my shed today!
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As the sun is in cloud this morning we are only just at 30C. The sun is supposed to appear after lunch so goodness knows where we will end up which will be far too hot for me.
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43 degrees in my shed today!
Jepers, I thought it was hot while driving home y'day in a temp. of 'only' 34 deg C! {:-{
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Luckily my workshop is indoors, so "only" 31.5 degrees
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We're at 27 degrees - not terrible but not encouraging me to get busy. Cold drink & TV today.
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27 degrees indoors at work, with the aircon trying flat out to cool it (we have a huge metal almost flat roof) warmer outside, yesterday when I arrived home at 6.30pm it was still 35 in my workshop, 29 indoors
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78F/26C over here in my shop in Tomball, Texas. 90 to 95F outside, heat index well above 100F.
How can my shop be nice and cool? Dedicated air conditioning running smoothly. :-)) %)
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27°C in the workshop and 32°C on the terrace, think it's time for a "radler" in the shadow
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78F/26C over here in my shop in Tomball, Texas. 90 to 95F outside, heat index well above 100F.
How can my shop be nice and cool? Dedicated air conditioning running smoothly. :-)) %)
Well there's the difference! We would normally consider 26C as very warm, if not hot. When it gets to 20c out come the shorts, much to my wife's chagrin %%
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25c in my little workshop, so not too bad.
To equalise body temperature we're having a curry this evening 😋
Home made of course!
Regards,
Ray.
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85 here in my Norfolk model room but I've been busy fitting in filler on my tiger heat won't stop me -----YET and the missus came up and gave me a nice cool ice cream
Chris
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aarived home from work, 30 degrees indoors, 38 degrees in the workshop, I didnt try going out there, just sat and melted
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Well just come out of the oven 38degrees.......sprayed some pva over all over the scenic scatter on the slot track to set it and by the time I had finished where I had started it was allready bone dry,so finishedthe weathering in the track and within 10 mins I had cars running on it.
SHame I got nothing to spray today it would be baked on
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Just come out of the greenhouse of a cockpit on the Hercules C-130 at Brize! The temperature registered on the onboard computers said it was 46 degrees C outside! God only knows what the cockpit temperature is! This is getting silly! %%
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Just been in there to nick the fan to use in the house. It's 46.1°C, and that's with the blinds down and both doors open. Work has been suspended for the day! I feel the second G&T coming on very soon...
DM