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Very short. some nasty sound indicates need for replacement. I did that with revell models as a kid. Would not do that again.
This is not a promising engine installation.
Romel, you need to do practical work. Build a boat from the start and run it. Find solutions instead of asking what might work or what could work better. Trial and error it is!
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As an unschooled 'practical engineer, the only way I can get a mechanism to work properly is through the process of try something and alter the arrangement till the system works as intended. Elon Musk has made popular the word 'iteration'; his method of achieving flight-qualified hardware. Same thing -- build it, run it till something breaks, fix the broken part, run it again. Keep up the process till the desired performance is achieved and call it a day. I've run these cheap ass little can motors in the wet for years. When they ****-the-bed I just pop a new one in there. I got hundreds of these little things, left over from our Caswell days.
As for our friend, Romel. "Yeah!, what Jorg just said!"
David
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Small spray of WD40 in the can will preserve them for some time. I used to build tiny rc boats as a kid by putting the prop directly on the shaft and gluing the motor to the bottom of the hull.
Hull looks great Dave...
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As an unschooled 'practical engineer, the only way I can get a mechanism to work properly is through the process of try something and alter the arrangement till the system works as intended. Elon Musk has made popular the work 'iteration'; his method of achieving flight-qualified hardware. Same thing -- build it, run it till something breaks, fix the broken part, run it again. Keep up the process till the desired performance is achieved and call it a day. I've run these cheap ass little can motors in the wet for years. When they ****-the-bed I just pop a new one in there. I got hundreds of these little things, left over from our Caswell days.
As for our friend, Romel. "Yeah!, what Jorg just said!"
David
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Is the heat lamp to cook the oil paint to dry quicker?
If you can cut, drill, saw, hit things and swear a lot, you're well on the way to building a working model sub.Comment
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Heat promotes quicker 'drying'/curing of putties, fillers, primers, paints, and most weathering agents. Almost all of these mediums undergo a state change -- transitioning from liquid/paste/gel to solid -- as a consequence of polymerization: a chemical reaction takes place within the applied medium that causes the molecules of the medium to link up from single, to long chains. Epoxy, polyurethane, and other two-part mediums start the polymerization process once the base material is mixed with a 'hardener' or 'accelerator' (basically, a catalyst). Once mixed, a two-part medium creates heat, that process described as an exothermic reaction. That heat drives the mediums molecules to cross-link into a solid.
Hence the external heat I apply -- to quicken the cure of the mediums.
Those heat-lamps a testament to my unyielding impatience and refusal to sit patiently waiting for paint to dry; grass to grow; Lawer's to tell the truth; and to find an adequate number of female types to successfully do a man's job correctly (I'm looking at you, Secrete Service, Police, and Fire services).Last edited by He Who Shall Not Be Named; 07-19-2024, 04:52 PM.Who is John Galt?Comment
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