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Hey chuck, did my Oh you can not do that !! Mod to a 2716 15 ABC to day went from 69mph to 74 !!!!! The man was happy to say the least. Gas hydro but speed is speed.
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Andy, I never said you couldn't do it. As everyone knows the native folk of Brokeback Hill can work magic.
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Well Andy, Chuck is now going to do a war dance and splash generous amounts of single malt whisky on a prop that he is going to mangle for me, the end result should be fun. Chuck also made a very generous offer but I told him to piss off as I wish to help our poor cousins maintain their lifestyle
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Douggie the prop is done! I have to say that the malt whiskey does give it a special patina.
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It looks great Chuck but I think I will have to modify the drivetrain to accommodate this beauty.
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WTF happened to that prop ??
Of the many I have hit hard things with most are now at the bottom of the pond, in fact there are enough there in one small area to upset the earths magnetism.
I have very rarely bought in a mangled prop and I must say that one is spectacular
I did bend the thinned tips on a 432 once when I ran it with a not so clever setup
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Good to see not much has changed in the last few months.returning to boats after a big break
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It's a X472 from a gas boat. I think it happened when he went into the rocks earlier this year. I was sent a picture to see if I could fix it. I fixed a propshop 3 blade a while back where the tips were bent back to the point it looked like a flower.WTF happened to that prop ??
Of the many I have hit hard things with most are now at the bottom of the pond, in fact there are enough there in one small area to upset the earths magnetism.
I have very rarely bought in a mangled prop and I must say that one is spectacular
I did bend the thinned tips on a 432 once when I ran it with a not so clever setupIMPBA 20481S D-12Comment
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Well as you all know I have been doing a modification on my old Xzess 2. It is at least 2 years old now and over the time I learned that the winglets made the hull go for the sky once the nose lifted a little either by speed, wind or rough water. I have cut the winglets off and that seems to have fixed the problem. This hull has had a hard life but the mod and paint is starting to make it look a whole lot better IMO.
Today is done 101 kph or a little over 62 mph on a 3s Zippy Flightmax. Prop was an andym special X642 and motor was a Neu 1515 0.5Y. I know there is more speed to come yet as I have to remove quite a bit of lead from the nose.
I just thought I would put a few pics up to show the hard time this hull has had.
The first picture shows the results of 2 different incidents. The obvious one is fire damage from a cooked esc. The red sponson and nose is from when the boat hit me in the leg and done a lot of damage to both of us...
Duck damage...
The start of the modification...
Getting closer to the finish of stage 1 (no ozzie not a G freak stage 1)...
Abusing the Xzess 2...
A recent video on 3s
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Paddy I think you are on to something here. I may be whacking the wings off of mine as well. 
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Interesting, I would have thought the sponsons would flex too much with this mod.....I like the paint.....makes the old queen look like a virgin.
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Chuck it has made a big difference to mine. I think the completed job should look OK too. I do not have a lot of time so I am just painting as I go. Some of the boat has the finish coat, some has undercoat and some no paint but I am getting there. It has had about 30 SAW type runs and has not looked like blowing over. I have a very small turn fin on so I can turn it with a little speed and in a circuit it is OK also.
The 3s on a 1515 0.5Y thing is just something I wanted to try. I think with a good battery and a little more work 65 to 67 mph will be no problem on 3s and going on how cool it runs I could do 3 laps without water cooling. I want to try a V937/3 on it too.
One big difference is instead of running the battery hard up in the nose as far as I could get it I now run it as close to the motor as I can get it. Andy is telling me to raise the strut a little and I think he is correct. A but more AoA and we might see 70mph on 3s. On 4s and a suitable motor 80 mph might be possible. I better stop before I wake up and fall out of bed.
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now that its one colour it certanly looks better than it did before,looks cleaner with out the wingletts as well.
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