Japanese Class A 1/16

[MFR1964]

Making the connector wasn't that much work, but it's working like intended,



This is the tube which is connected to the schnorkel float.



Here you can see the airline running to the float, still have to fasten it with some brackets to the hull, that can be done later when i know the exact position of the airline.



This is the machined part, used some solid copper rod, drilled it out and made me some grooves inside, those grooves hold the O rings.



This was the endgoal, by pushing in the connector i've got me a solid connection, no tools needed for removing it.


Manfred.

[MFR1964]

Thanks for all your comments guys, it made me and SWMBO laugh, which is a good thing, the bad thing is, people are dying here like flies, each time there are more sick people added to the list, they gave us more restrictions, i must say not that heavy as with Bart, the future will learn if our measures will be effective.

So, that was the serious part, the bright side is, i've corrected some things at the SD.



The SD is now finished and tested, had to replace the receiver and the levelkeeper, added the magnetconnectors and finished up the connections to the rearpart of the sub.



Locked down the diveplanes and the rudders for the next step, cutting the rods the right length.



I did kept some extra length so i could tweek with them.



Taking my measurement for cutting down the rods.



After cutting the rods up it revealed that it did not work as intended, so back to the drawingboard, my second attempt made me use bowdencables, this works like a charm.

Next step will be. starting up the lathe for my schnorkelconnector, and modify my construction for holding down the resquebouy.

Manfred.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

They need to make toilet roll snickers. Seems to be what everyone is after at the moment- seems to be priority number one to have something to wipe their arse!

Yeah. I don't get the rush-on-****-paper thing. This is not digestive, its pulmonary. Idiots!

[Subculture]

They need to make toilet roll snickers. Seems to be what everyone is after at the moment- seems to be priority number one to have something to wipe their arse!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

LOL, Tom. Right on point!

David

[trout]

I had to look that up.......Triffids

Here is a photo of one of our Walmarts.


BUT, the real survival food was not being touched



That's correct, there were still Snickers!

Stay safe Manfred.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I'm wondering at which point the Triffids will turn up?

Only a true SF fan would quip that, Andy! Buckets of sea-water on stand-by!

David

[Subculture]

I'm wondering at which point the Triffids will turn up?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Hang tight, Manfred. We'll get through this, pal. And Ellie say's hi, to your Boss Lady.

Stand by for heavy rolls, my friend.

David

[MFR1964]

Interesting times are starting here in the Netherlands, today they announced a partial shutdown of the country, She Who Will Be Obeyed was ordered last week to work from home by laptop, we are still well, and hope to stay that way by limiting our social contacts.
It's a big mess in the Southern part of our country, they expect a second wave to hit this week, which can turn out nasty, i'll keep you guys informed.

Manfred.

[MFR1964]

All the delivered servo's are placed, rear bulkhead is finished as is the front bulkhead.





All cables are tied together with small T raps, i like to keep things tidy, that ESC i ordered some time ago as a test, it can handle up to 10A, BEC 1A, the horns of the servo's are not yet fastened, this will be done when i know the exact position with all channels in neutral.



I did mentioned about linking up the SAS float at the front , don't want to peel the tube off each time, so i've designed a watertight airplug which i have to make on the lathe.



This is not needed for the rearpart, i only have to adjust the length of the tubes.

Before i can start testing the SD i have to take out the SL8 receiver from the 212, don't know why, but my contraption with the old receiver and shadow programmer is dead, in a way it's better, the receiver was allready a bit of a risk.


Manfred.

[MFR1964]

The ordered servo's will arrive next week, just in time to replace the dummy servo's i used to get the arragement right, pictures



I had to make a bracket to house the servo's for the launchtubes, took some stock aluminum plate and bended the right shape, those white strips of evergreen will be used to fasten the servo's.



Took some broken servo's as a dummy to see at which position they had to be placed.



Bended the rods for controlling the launchtubes, it's a tight fitt around the control switches but enough room is left for moving them.



All wires in the rearpart of the SD are in, all connectors soldered and documented which is which.



Battery pack and levelkeeper are placed inside, made a small charging plug so i don't have to take the battery pack out during charging.



From left to right, levelkeeper, battery pack and the charging plug.

For now i have to wait when i have the servo's, when arrived i can start building up the rear bulkhead and the front bulkhead and start testing my contraption.

Manfred.

[george]

I may be wrong but your post 270 has No pictures showing. All previous ones are visible.

[MFR1964]

Ran into a ittybitty problem with the SL8, it would not hold the paired channel after power down,



Since i don't have any SL8 receivers anymore i came up with this, rewired a shadow programmer and connected it to the SL8



Normally you have to push a button on the shadow programmer to add the setting, i came up with the waterproof push switch to imitate that.



Soldered the switching wire paralel to the onboard switch, yet again i had to pull some extra wires to the frontpart of the SD.






I finished up the external plumbing on the SD, as intended i've got me a clean SD outside with a minimum stuff sticking out.

After this contraption was wired out into the SD i could start with some basic testing, it revealed that using the shadow programmer wired into the SL8 worked as intended, so, first you have to power up the SD, then you push the watertight pushswitch and the SL8 is paired and ready to use.

End of this week the servo's will arrive, so i can start building up the front bulkhead for receiving the two torpedo servo's and finish the soldering connectors on the extra wiring.

Manfred.

[MFR1964]

Thanks,

I agree there is a lot of work envolved, building the hull/plug took most of the time, unfortunally there where running some side-projects through this build, at the end she will see the water, servo's are ordered.



Next batch of plumbing is ready, the white tubes are plastick, they will be used for the antenna wire.



This piece of tubing will go to the float of the SAS, it will be connected by a hose to the connecter which is present on the bulkhead of my middle part, i will take some pics to explain that, also pulled some extra wires to the frontpart of the SD for running the angle keeper and launchtube servo's.


Manfred.