After the success of my Fantasy Huntress . . .
http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,51679.0.htmlI was pondering on what to do with the old Swordsman kit I'd built in me youf . . .
Shelve it / bin it or what ? ?
Red 181 convinced me to modernise it properly , do the engineering first worry about paint later . . .
SO . . onward , fancied a direct drive outrunner & a LIPO battery , strip out everything . . .
Started cutting away the motor mount ? ? why is it starting to go SPONGY ? ? ? the wood was rotted out , ended up taking out the whole mount either side of the keel , the keel wasn't affected strangely . . .
WOW ! ! needed a guide bar now for lining up the shaft . . .
After working out clearances & angle a mounting plate screwed & araldited in . . .
In goes a new 4mm S/Stl shaft / Hobbyking 90amp ESC / 2814T 820Kv outrunner / Component Shop fuse block ( use this as a switch, there's no BEC's switch on the ESC) & a revised battery mount for the Turnigy 5000mAh 11.1v LIPO . . .
Improvised cooling fan is a 30mm rotor from a laptop PSU , drilled out just smaller than the splines on the motor adaptor & pressed on . . .
Last week was relaunch , it goes like a scalded cat ! ! even with sustained high speed running the motors barely warm so the fan must be doing something . . .I'm well pleased . . .
Now for the repaint . . . I'll do that later
Bill