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It's a big place. I was staying with friends in Brisbane ( Queensland) and had to be in Townsville ( Queensland) by 7pm on a certain day. I looked at the map, toyed with idea of hiring a car in one place and spending the day driving up and drop the car off in Townsville. All one state! Also looked at flight option, which worked out cheaper. Then noticed it was a 2.5 hour flight, checked the distance and quality of roads. Crapola I need the flight and Townsville isn't even even the furthest point in quEensland.
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Next time someone points out it takes 42 muscles to frown, point out it will only take 4 muscles to b1tch slap them if they tell you how mnay muscles you need to smile:pop -
I got so used to driving around in my youth I don,t often consider our distance issues to those from overseas. My latest road trip for the Canberra regatta I clocked around 3000km all up with the stop over in Sydney included. Plus a 19 hour drive on the way there with road works and a multi vehicle pileup cause several hours delay with that alone. Even so there is still noway I'd fly and let the airlines handle the several thousand of dollars of subs etc... I am so glad the next sub day is here in Brisbane next month.
BTW your sub looks great Bruce.Cheers,
Alec.
Reality is but a dream...
But to dream is a reality
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Thx mate,
Going to do the TF72 20th Anniverary regatta next year in Wentworth Falls (in New South Wales, near Sydney) that will be a good road trip around 1800km one way...
I haven't done much since Wagga (still need to paint the new rudder but temps are too cold for painting at the moment), ran SHARK again recently got a couple of good runs in still getting a little bit of water in motor compartment (not sure where from yet...) one run was completely dry , next one had a thimble or so of water in it....
The simple periscope setup I did seems to work reasonably well just needs a drop of oil on the tubes to work a little more freely. Now need to fit the upgraded snorkel float and see if the periscope float interferes with it....(If so then it might be back to the drawing board for the scope float!!)
need a new tx battery pack current one doesn't last very long.
BruceLast edited by HvyCGN9; 12-02-2014, 07:14 AM.Comment
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Packed up the work van with my Fleet a week or so ago for our TF72 Annual Regatta this years was in Narracorte 390km or so South eastward. USS Shark was semi ready as I haven't had a chance to work on her in a few months, still having ballasting issues but a long talk with Slats at the pond side gave me some ideas.... hopefully have some pics of her running at the regatta soon!!
Her are a some of the surface runners.....
my dock facility early on the Sat morn.
HMS Malaya ( you would not believe how long Nick took to build this!)
USS Long Beach, USS California, INS Mumbai, USS Gettysburg, and HMAS ANZAC
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AH GOOD! Plenty of surface action! Be sure to sink at least one of the SCUM before ya leave! Make em think twice before coming back in dem dar waters again! OH..........Parden me. That's not any way to get on is it?IT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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PC has been playing silly buggas, but seems to be working today! Some more regatta pix
USS California testing new 900 graupner motors at 85% power, WWII HMAS Hobart behind her
Nick's battleships, HMS Malaya and HMS Resolution, both built in remarkably short time.....as in less than SIX months each! It pays to be retired apparently!!
out in the anchorage we had 2 FFG's, 2 of the yet to be launched Hobart class DDG's and Nick's other model the USCG cutter.
CGN9 goin thru the shallows in a daring feat of navigation! Around the end pole of the awning is only 1m (ish) wide required some trick helm 'adjustments'....
CGN9 underway
Last edited by HvyCGN9; 12-20-2014, 03:53 AM.Comment
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Been constructing a solid transport box for USS Shark. I have found that the slightest knock can send the stern planes and rudders out of alignment... I figure I have forked out a fair number of $$$ on this Sub so It should have a decent box to protect it!!
Here are some pics of the box. It is made of 7mm ply sheet with 19mm x42mm ply for stiffening and the base is a melamine(the laminex covered chipboard) shelf cut down to size. The chipboard base gives the box some weight down low for stabilty, as an after thought I made a internal box for Tx storage...
here's some pix....
Have added handles on the ends and will put some wheels on it too...
Merry Beermas too all and a Safe an happy New Year!!
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Finished the box for the Shark, Carry handles, and some latches all done....(awhiles back now.....ongoing PC dramas have kept me from doing a lot of posting). Been busy with long hours at work and will need to sit down with the Shark and sort out trim and ADF2 issues one day soon !! But not for a bit as the only reasonable test pond is fenced off due to a big music festival for next few weeks! It takes em' 2 weeks to set a up all the fences, about 3-4 days for the staging guys to setup two days for the gig then the packup !!
Noticed when cleaning the sub that one of the PE round gratings has fallen off someplace!! Grrrrrrrrrr
BruceLast edited by HvyCGN9; 02-20-2015, 10:39 AM.Comment
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Pulled USS Shark out of her box last week for some system testing before the long weekend trip to Wagga Wagga NSW for the TF72 Carrier & Escorts event. Wednesday night was spent upgrading the float valve to the improved version and re-greasing push rod seals and O-rings on the end caps with some better grease, followed by several hours playing around with trying to get the surface trim better...still not happy with it so I will SUB-contract it out to Oztruck up north!! (A short 150km trip up past the Clare Valley wine region....ps that's 150km one way!!).
The Shark ran really well with a dry Subdriver on the first short test run, running nice and level while dived so I pulled it out to wait for Mick to arrive with his good camera! Once he was ready to take some pix I got the Shark back in and did a longer run with some deep dives and some good periscope depth runs...
Now I can finish off the paint job and get the decals on!
here are the pics....
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G'day Dave,
I am going to adjust the throttle endpoints on the Tx as she is a bit slower than predicted! I think they are at about 65% for ahead and 85% astern at moment.If turning the wick up doesn't do much I am planning on putting the originally supplied motor back in....
Would have gotten some more runs in and adjusted throttle settings on the weekend but when I was taking the upper hull off after 2nd run I pulled the fitting off top of ballast tank! I wasn't keen on doing a poolside repair in case of leaks!!!
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Geeez Bruce. You need a spare hull!!!Comment
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Yup the little renshape dodad with 2 pipes facing aft and 1 fwd on top of ballast tank...my mate suggested having a short bit of brass tube to locate it in the hole prehaps. It came off due to me pulling the hose to hard at wrong angle!!
I changed the motor early on when I was getting a lot of interference in the SD which later turned out to be a bad BEC (from Hobbyking.....). The motor is similar to a rock crawler motor but I will do some more testing before swapping it back...
Cheers Bruce
PS the new float valve works sweetly!!Comment
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Thanks for the feed-back, Bruce. Much appreciated.
You need any parts from me? List 'em and I'll blast them off to you. Don't know about your current motor, but the one you yanked was already spark-suppressed (internal cap's), and is very high-torque. Consider putting that sucker back in there.
Glad the new snorkel induction float-valve is getting it done. The SD staying dry for you?
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