Greatly built don, Waiting to see the electric setup...What is the AUW? Can you give me the specification about your electric system

hi guys,
ULW 490grams ??
allup wieght 6o0+grams??
motor is a 380 can from cheap heli.
esc esky EM149B.40a
6onz servo .... rudder
a 7.4v extreme make 2s lipo battery
and esky 2.4 6ch rx
may be puting a second servo to operate a reverse currant for the motor  
the weights include the removable cabin
with plastic propelor and rudder
regards don

hi guys,
here it is being wieghed...........

and a closeup of the scale readout..........

can't wait for float trials.................
must have more patence....... got to seal the hull first ....after instalation of prop shaft and rudder..........
this is 'allup' wieght .....the electrics are all sat inside for this.  

regards
don

hell yeah, i almost lost (sunk) my boat once because it had no reverse so its a good feature to have 

sahil

hi sahilkit
 thanks mate......................I will defenatly do this then :-) :-)
regards
don

hi guys,
put the prop shaft in today and hope to prime the hull tomorow..............if I can persuade her to get me some..........[ got to promise to be good though ]
here is the running gear.

I am now looking at a 180 motor geared down 2:1 and will use AA as power because this will be going to my 4 yr old grandson and will be safer/ easier to use batts
I was going to use the gear in pic [was going to use a 380 motor]  but will not gear it down this far with the '180' ,
 just a 'big' pinion on the shaft
keeping the 380's for the MTB
regards
don

hi guys,
well .................. major setback yesterday and today....................................
 primed and first coat the hull and cabin..................
 the top coat enamel reacted against the supplied primer.......... so will have to clean off and start again.......
not good............definitely not happy.

see lower edge of hull bottom and stern deck on cabin
regards
don

I had the same experience and had to scrape and sand the entire mess out and begin all over again. Strangely, in my case, the bubbling happened at the exact same spot on the hull!

All the best...............

hi mate.
all cleaned off..................... ready to start again now......................
may use car spray instead of plastic enamal...........
.what did you use in the end??
regards
don

hi guys.
well I am looking at going back to work next week,
 so the model may continue, as lack of funds are hold up at the moment.
.......lots of time but no cash available to spend ..............
see you soon, when money is available again.
regards
don

 

Hey Matey! Are you going to be away from the forum?

hi guys.
WELL...........................
I have finally finished this small cruiser......
pics below ,It is going to my grandson friday so hopefully I will have a video of his maiden with it.
it has a 170 motor and an old contoler from an esky coax heli and a servo for rudder with the toy 3 blade plastic prop and brass rudder shown earlier. the motor is direct drive using a plastic tube connector to prop shaft, running on 4AA batteries in the bow.




with this cheapy servo [acer lab 8gram] I get 45degrees of rudder in both directions.
the 35mhz areal is under the white tape on the inside of the gunwails.
On a 'roll test' I was able to submerge the edge of decks sideways roll and it 'popped back' upright again supper fast.   

regards
don
uk

Don, my friend, you will live long. Scarcely an hour ago, I was thinking about you. Hadn't  heard from you for a long time. The Cruiser looks bright! You've got one lucky grandson.

Hope you are doing well.

Best Regards,

VC

hi VC
yes I'm ok if I take it steady [how do you do that ?  ]
hope you and your's are well also,
the paint was a nightmare................cheaper spray paints  are so badit was origionaly going to be blue and white. but the white did'nt like the supplied primer........the blue was ok.. so got yellow.............. this did'nt like the blue so ended up repainting the hull and then doing the decks yellow and not having a second color on the hull.
regards
don