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Oh you young pups! In the days before digital streaming (analog was king), when records were played, phones had rotary dials, seat belts did little to help you when you ran into the metal dashboard, the live news reporters would have to wait for the film to be brought in from whatever incident that was being reported on, developed, edited and ready for broadcast. This took awhile. Then played later that evening. It would become a marketing catch phrase to get people to tune in at the 11pm broadcast.
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If you can cut, drill, saw, hit things and swear a lot, you're well on the way to building a working model sub. -
Ohhh OK got it, Like to say before my time but sadly I cant, lol.
Anyway......All this time I have put off joining the hulls together thinking about how big the WTC would be and if I had to put mounting brackets etc. Well I figured it out. You know the big blue Oval on the bottom of Stingray... see where I'm going with this? Mark it, Cut it out and Hey Presto Dark navy blue will conceal the join Just add a lip on the hull and a few well placed fixing screws of your choice..... Means you would have to work on it upside down and make up a mount so it fixes to the top hull, What do you guys think?Comment
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The first r/c submarine I made had to be inverted to access the innards. Just made me crazy. You're compelled to build and bring along a tall boat-stand, and you handle the model just a bit more than is safe (simply spinning the model around by hand to inverted is asking for damage).
I'm going to split the hull as delivered, Mamas (just got it, I hate you!) Plenty of access. I'll ring the perimeter with magnets, that will minimize the visible seam. I start test fitting SD's to this thing tomorrow. What a piece of work, true quality stuff here. This will be a show-stopper wherever you take it.
DavidWho is John Galt?Comment
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Im so pleased your happy with my work, Now you work your magic with the SD and make this thing work.
MamasComment
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We never had an eleven 'o' clock news here in the UK, we used to have the nine 'o' clock news on the BBC, and the ten 'o' clock news on ITV. Now we have 24 hour news channels, so you can have it coming out of your ears!Comment
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What a tease! The video hangs-up at 1:22 Damn!!!!!
DavidWho is John Galt?Comment
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Well tell me what you wanna see and I'll tape it. lolComment
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Blimey that's a noisy little critter. Here's the little planetary geared motors I referred to inan earlier posting- http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mini-Elect...item2ec162b1c1
Little works of art those are, work fine off 5 volts. I purchased a couple to experiment with servo electronics and baby piston trim tanks. But that's another story....Attached FilesComment
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That looks interesting. Whats the power output of that thing? The noise was amplified by the camera, after all its just a Futaba S-148 servo, listen to one and its no way near that noisy in real life.Comment
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I got the perfect motor-gearing for that RateMaster. I'll show it off tonight or tomorrow along with the kit-just-arrived survey shots.
Already I'm dumping the plan to break the model at the maximum beam (where the upper and lower hull halves separate in the kit). I see I have enough room to get adequate access through a removable cockpit section (I'm sure that was the access point on the effects miniatures too). So, I'll do that -- a much neater access break than around the boats centerline.
A magnificent kit, Mamas!
DavidWho is John Galt?Comment
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I haven't measured the stall wattage of the motor, becuase I can't stall it with it hooked to the gearbox, but they're more than a match for standard size servo motor. I hooked one up to an old analogue servo control board on 5 volts, and it was pulling 4-5w with me holding a gearwheel on the output shaft.
The only fly in the ointment is the cruciform output shaft- makes it a little awkward to connect couplings, gears etc.Comment
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