Hi have had Capt Jack's crane barge with me for a few weeks and done one or two alterations to it.
(nothing wrong with the original just putting our stamp on it (Capt Jack & Catengineman)
There is a video on photobucket
http://s85.photobucket.com/albums/k49/adonis_spanner/?newest=1The spud legs have been moved to the center of the pontoon and are now powered, I changed some of the controls in the transmitter this has made the derrick and slew faster and allowed me to use the old track controls for those operations. I used the now redundant buttons to control the winch for the spud legs. first modification was with wooden spuds but this burnt out one servo and also as they went into the water it made the pontoon instable so now they are hollow copper tubes, both lifted by one (the only one I had left at the time) modified servo.
I hope to return the barge to Capt Jack when I go back to work he will then be able to finish the painting and fit his own accommodation block.