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 61 
 on: March 25, 2024, 07:29:17 pm 
Started by Nick-R - Last Post by Nick-R
My introduction to building working model boats was about the age of 10 or so via the KeilKraft eze build series - a Neptune? I think.  It was a 16in cabin cruiser with a small electric (Mabuchi?) motor and could just about make it across the local dam on a flat 4.5v battery.  Motor was connected to battery with paper clips?  It was always guaranteed to make landfall at the other side at the most inaccessible bit of the pond, usually necessitating a paddle through reeds to retrieve it.


My first radio gear was single channel with a receiver that had a relay that closed when the transmit button was pressed.  It gave sequential steering - first press turn to port, next press turn to starboard.  Also you could send a sort of morse code that operated a throttle servo - fast or slow.  In real terms that probably cost about ten times my current Microzone six channel tx/rx and servos/esc.


My modelling skills were really coming up to speed but then I discovered women!!!








 62 
 on: March 25, 2024, 07:12:19 pm 
Started by Martin (Admin) - Last Post by Martin (Admin)

Evening All !

I've had an email from someone that needs help repairs to his fishing bait boat, anyone from / know anyone in the Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex area that might help?

"I'm  looking to have it serviced plus the hand set could do with a repair as one of the switches have come loose and perhaps make sure it's synchronisation is good between hand set and boat ."

 Martin 
 

 
 

 63 
 on: March 25, 2024, 07:05:48 pm 
Started by Nick-R - Last Post by Dave_S.
More early 70s than 60s, but my first few boats were diesel or glow powered. My very first was basically a plywood shoe-box with a simple electric motor and a super-regen single channel radio. It had quite a few limitations, but I was able to steer it around a local pond. Second boat was a glass fibre flattie I bought on holiday in Eastbourne, fitted an ED super Racer in it and it was quite a lot of fun. My final IC boat was an SHG Shadow with a Webra 20 in it, proper radio, and kept me entertained for a year or two. No idea what happened to any of them now though.

 64 
 on: March 25, 2024, 06:44:41 pm 
Started by Nick-R - Last Post by Nick-R
My first ic engine was a Frog 2.5cc.  It had a water jacket but an open exhaust.  Making some kind of collector/manifold for it was beyond my skills at the time (probably still is!) so it made a real mess, not to mention the exhaust smoke making the boat look like it was on fire!  Wonder what happened to them?


I also acquired a 6.5cc glow plug engine which made my Swordsman fly but I also learned the hard way that these motors ran hotter than diesels, beyond the melting point of the neophrene tubing I had connecting the exhaust to the transom!  Can’t remember the make!  In fact the Swordsman flew so much that it tried to do so up the bank at the side of the pond, wrecking its bow!  It was then I learned the delights of fibre glass and filler!


The young guys nowadays with plug and play brushless motors don’t know they are living!!!

 65 
 on: March 25, 2024, 05:10:15 pm 
Started by Trucker - Last Post by dodes
The three masthead forade facing lights have large special lenses to like light houses to concentrate the emitted light to flow in a narrow light beam over its width to be seen at min of 3 miles. So during the day , the light will be seen bright through them as it is glass, where else the special lights have a none lens all round clear cover. Hope you can get some sense, as the forward glass if seen from side or rear is unobstructed glass while the smaller special lights have the light fitting obstructing the light flow.

 66 
 on: March 25, 2024, 05:02:24 pm 
Started by Nick-R - Last Post by Mike S
Hi Nick,


Yes, the ED 2.5cc was badged as the 'Racer', the 3.5cc was 'Hunter', and the 5cc was the 'Viking'. Anything over 2.5cc was regarded as 'heavy metal'. As you say home brewed silencers were the order of the day, although my soldering wasn't up to much!


Cheers,


Mike

 67 
 on: March 25, 2024, 04:50:58 pm 
Started by SimonCornes - Last Post by SimonCornes
Well I managed to get a second yacht set up and now I've moved on to a third but I have another query!

Yacht 1 is programme 1, number 2 is 2 so I wanted 3 to be 3, in this case a One Metre yacht (IOM as model name). So I turned on the transmitter and then the receiver and then pushed the bonding button and it flickered away for a second or two then went steady, job done. But when I plugged the sail winch and rudder servo into the receiver the servo movement was completely weird. The winch hardly moved in either direction whereas the rudder moved full range in one direction and wouldn't centre and no matter what I did I couldn't get either to behave normally. I thought it might be a duff receiver but when I selected programme 1 or 2 the receiver behaved perfectly normally so not the receiver. Ultimately I found that programme 10 - out of a total of 15 - would make the servos behave normally so I have 3 yachts set up on programmes 1, 2 and 10 but why can't I get programme 3 or 4 or whatever to behave normally? It must be how they're set up on the transmitter but do you have any idea how I make the damned things behave normally??

Perplexed!!

 68 
 on: March 25, 2024, 04:17:30 pm 
Started by Stan - Last Post by Stan
Kirklees Model Boat Club will be holding their annual Steam Day and Mountfleet Models Open Day. 
 
This will take place on Sunday 12h May from 9 am to approximately 4 pm at Wilton Park, Bradford Road, Birstall, Batley WF17 8JH. 
 
Although the day is for steam powered models all types of models can be sailed except IC and high-performance fast electrics.  Anyone wishing to have a steam plant tested will need to contact the Events Planner at least two weeks before the event on 0113 2675790.  The Steam Day is also for the owners of Mountfleet Models to display their models.  Hope to see lots of Mountfleet Models on the day.   The Club’s military vehicle section will be displaying a number of military vehicles.   Refreshments available, free car parking, toilet facilities at the nearby café in the Park.  Some traders may attend.   
 
Any queries can you please send via the Editor of Model Boats and they will then be passed on, or direct on the above contact number. :-)) :-)) :-)) :-)) :-)) :-)) 
 
 

 69 
 on: March 25, 2024, 03:20:18 pm 
Started by Gardener - Last Post by DHutch
I saw this model in person after collecting one of the other boats the OP had for sale.


Looks to be a nice boat, complete with motor, esc, etc.  Ready to run just add Tx.

 70 
 on: March 25, 2024, 03:17:57 pm 
Started by Andyn - Last Post by DHutch
Are these still available?

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