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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
As you can probably tell, I'm racing through the glassing, and paint prep. its a real Important part of the build, but I found it soooo boring! Not long before the real interesting stuff comes along, especially the driveline Time to turn th …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion -
paint, at last, I have opted for halfords filler primer, dont know why, I was disappointed last time I used it , but will give it another go. The hull is quite nice and flat, after a LOT of rubbing down, I wanted a primer that will allow so …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
I need to slow down, or it will get boring, and I will take over the forum As mentioned previously, we decided that we need to glass the hull, this will make sure the wood does not rot in the future, as we dont know how old the boat actuall …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Fibre glassing......the secret is, go to a friends house, use his workshop, then all the resin drips on his floor! In all seriousness, on a big boat like this, its a two man job, as the resin goes off quite quick, and the cloth shrinks, pul …
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Aerokits 46" twin screw brushless conversion
as you can see I was very lucky with this buy, its in excellent condition, so a lot of the work is already done. I dont do full builds, I seem to specialise with refurbs and rescuing unfinished projects! I am using a digital servo for rudde …
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Aerokits 46" fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Before glassing starts, I needed to change from single screw to twin screw, never had a twin screw boat before, so this is new territory for me, time to enlist some help! so ity was over to HS93'S workshop! We set on the hull where I wanted …
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4 foot Aerokits Crashtender refurbed with twin brushless
I wasnt sure If It was repetative to post up a build log, but recently I finished a refurb of an ebay rescuce, It was built, not really painted, never been In the water, quite a unique find. It was In the middle of south Wales, so quite dif …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Next bit is horrible, preparing for the paint. With my smaller 36" Fireboat, it suffered after time with delamination, so I decided to fibreglass this boat, I had only done this once before, so was dreading this job. The photo is the fibreg …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
After 12 months in the loft, summer 2011 its time to make a start, so off with the paint!, what a terrible job, don't know what it was painted with but it WOULD NOT come off, then when things seems to be at their darkest, my mentor (a very …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
On bringing it home, I stripped out all the junk, and sold the motor on ebay, it had never been run, I didnt know what the motor was, but it fetched £60, so the boat now owed me £15 , it gets better and better though, where do you store a b …
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Aerokits 46" twin screw brushless conversion
The boat was rescued summer 2010 from ebay, soundly made, true and square, never run or put in the water, circa late sixties, and sat in a loft ever since. it lived in the south Wales area, difficult to get to, and no postage offered, so fo …
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Veron Huntsman 28 brushless video
quite a few places sell them it was a xmas pressie two years ago, and I have a gps expander, lcd screen, rev counter, they are all quite cheap plug ins, it is invaluable to me, I love tinkering with set ups, the Huntsman runs a belt drive g …
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4 foot Aerokits Crashtender refurbed with twin brushless
Ill do a full build log if anybody is interested! , it was on another forum, but really should be here as this is the spiritual home of Fireboats! Its twin 800kv motors, (with a twist!)running 4 x 5000mah 2 cell lipos (4 cells per motor) wi …
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46 In Fireboat Brushless Repower
hi, yes have run the 46'' fireboat several times, starting with the Turnigy 900watt motor on 12v with 4600 cells and now up to 16.8 . performance is terrific, quick onto the plane and then fast ! Have not posted video yet but a still is att …
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Brushless Motors
Hello, I am just a newbie here but have been into rc for lifetime. I am building a 1/12th scale all-metal #260 brass USS Holland submarine with an in-runner brush-less motor used for rock-crawler vehicles.These BL motors are very slow runni …
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First Brushless Test
With the boat weighing a lot less it was a lot faster. Although over half the boat was out of the water it planed fairly level but was very difficult to drive. And after a few minutes of driving with LIPO the tamiya connector's melted, …
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Brushless Motor In + LIPO
The rest of the parts arrived and the motor is now in. Tested it in the bath and the power was incredible, easily twice the power of the graupner 600, next is a test on the lake. I also brought a 7.4V 4000mah LIPO pack for my car so while I …
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3D Printed RAF Crash Tender 35"
… el is approximately 35 inches long and will be powered by a brushless motor on a single shaft. I am currently working through the construction, finishing and painting stages, and will post updates as the build progresses. I am looking forwa …
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LesRo Rapier.
… s that I may need when I am "pond side" to change a prop or brushless motor are carried on small magnets in the rear compartment to save me forgetting to take them with me and this has proven to be very helpful! Bob.
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Re: Rapier
… r during Covid, based on Cornwalls plan. The large mtronics brushless motor fits low down in the front, although I've had trouble with the speed controller when fitted to a 3cell lipo. Its quit happy on 2cell. To fit everything in, the rear …
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Re: New planing hull design.
… shaft and an extra length of tube which is no problem for a brushless motor!+" This heartens me a lot because, from the tests I have done so far, I have seen that with very long shafts the resistance and Ampere absorption greatly increases. …
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Re: New planing hull design.
… shaft and an extra length of tube which is no problem for a brushless motor! Note that the keel design includes a raised piece for the rudder monting. Have you allowed for the coupling in the prop shaft length you are working with? I can gi …
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Re: New planing hull design.
… the exact same ones) or the nylon equivalents. Considering brushless for now, the mounts will take a number of different sized motors as long as the mounting hole centres are the same - if say you went for a smaller motor of say 28mm diame …
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Re: Sea Queen 2026 (Aerokits).
… Crash Tender Base on the Aerokits one. Great boat !!! 50mm brushless motor 450kv on 6S Lipo ( two 3S setup in series). 52mm 2 blade cnc prop. I finally ended up placing the batteries, one each side of the rudder. This made the boat handle …
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Re: SHIP MODELING: WHICH MODEL COMPANIES ARE STILL ACTIVE? WORLD OVERVIEW, CHARACTERISTICS AND PECUL
… ion. A Monoperm super is fitted is fitted but I might run a brushless motor, same fittings so can swap, after seeing how she runs. Roy
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Re: Maiden Voyage
+To me that is the down side to brushless, silly revs. Ok in the right boat + Nothing to do with being brushless. Problem would be with having too high a kV motor and battery voltage. I use brushless in all my builds including two very slow …
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Model Slipway Vosper RTTL
… by a 6 volt Speed 400, and one was included, but I’m going brushless with this build. First thing after cutting out the hull, deck and interior liner is to clean up and trim, then you’re supposed to build up the rudder from 2 abs halves an …