Project 41" Sprintcat!

[Fluid]

More sparkle in the photos than in person. Much more.

Dyslexic attack?



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[FighterCat57]

Dyslexic attack?



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Perhaps.

What I meant to say is: There is more sparkling metal flakes in the photo than I can see in person. I don't see all the red, purple, green and other fancy colors, seems the lens picks up a wider spectrum of color.

I just see some metallic sparkle like automotive paint.

[FighterCat57]

Where's the beef?

[Brod]

Amazing what a bit of paint can do,looks cool Fighter.
Plenty of room for twins by the looks of it.

[FighterCat57]

Amazing what a bit of paint can do,looks cool Fighter.
Plenty of room for twins by the looks of it.

Oh yeah. Not bad and the final boat is going to be relatively light, so I'm confident that the Twin Castle setup will giddy up and go.

This morning's paint... I hate detail work. Really. I don't like decals, pinstripe or taping...

Thanks to a chunk of paint peeling off (I slipped and it ripped) I now have a faux hull hatch. Complete with hatch lock decals. Did the drivers window too. Nothing extremely detailed... I was contemplating even doing the window.

I found a brushless power decal to cover the air intake. Figured it was appropriate.

Heh... and I just noticed the hatch striping is pulling up.

[FighterCat57]

Overall... not bad for a rattle can. Going to let it bake in the sun today.

[Jedi Master]

Looking good, can't wait to see it get wet!!

[FighterCat57]

It's a Soooooooooooooper Dooooooooooooooper cooling heatsink!

I figured since I had the room and the extra heat sink just calling my name that I would machine it down to fit. The heatsink is an aluminum hard drive heat sink that weighs 150 grams. It's really light and already had the underside coated with thermal adhesive.

I trimmed it down and drilled it out to accept the stock mounting points with no ESC modification at all. Just 4 screws hold it on the ESC. I added a bit of PC Thermal grease to help heat transfer and made sure the thermal pad was touching both the FETs and the heatsink.

Since the rudder pickup is 1/4", I'll use the largest water tubes I can fit inbetween the fins. I have some thermal epoxy ready to go. I'll strip down the coating on the aluminum to make sure the tubing has good contact.

I'm either psycho paranoid or this will work out to be a nice cool setup.

There's room for plenty of airflow if fans are necessary I can add them later. The brackets keep the ESC's up in the air and allow them to be placed anywhere along the stringers with enough room for two 4 cell packs under them.

[Xfactor]

Like the esc idea. It took long enough to get hardware in the boat maybe well see it run in 2010 after all.have some.

[Brushless55]

Very cool idea!

[forescott]

X-factor = Play nice!!

[FighterCat57]

Very cool idea!

Well, one thing is for sure, it WILL dissipate a lot of heat!

Picked up some 7/32 Aluminum tubing this morning, it fits snugly in between the fins and still allows from some airflow over top.

Time to get back to Fathers day stuff.

[Xfactor]

Dude you talkin bout me? you didnt even know to paint a windshied a windshied and a turbine a turbine and youre doing this all wrong harware first then paint. I was merely trying to help u while others just want you to run what they run. Which is what youre into you even said you got your idea from another member. We call that biting if you wanna be that be my guest. I wont comment on your thread anymore since it botheres you to a point of trying to get personal .Why would one want something someone else has wheres the originality oh I forgot its in the beef. LOL U seemed cool on the paint advice but then you got girly cause I made a valid point U cant nail an idea down dude its the truth. You tell me i dont read your post fully . I dont have to; you change what you wanna do everyday. Youre kinda stracted boss. I suggest a motor you tell me "read cause the motors are already brought" two pages and a bunch of chatter later now youre taking a poll on what motor to run. You take your advice from who says what you wanna hear no problem dawg.Ive since gave up on you youre a lost cause and now you buying into that childs banter about nothing to do with boats. Why dont you just buy his? lol Peace fam good luck with all these HARD decisions wow.

[Xfactor]

X-factor = Play nice!!

Scott I was merely trying to get him to nail an idea down. Peoples egos make them fell threatened I have no ill will with this man i was only trying to help. As far as the other member talking about banning someone calling someone buckwheat is a direct violation of the rules. Ive been alot of names on here havent seen anyone get banned yet so if thats the case it will be spring cleaning around here.Trump up that ban crap when you see some one calling me a name that I feel was racist in nature. I let it go so yall better too.Lastly come to my defense just like this when you see stuff like that on my own threads. Forget this boat thats not a sprintcat anyway. Its a hotr 41 145.00 hull
peace
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[supafastsupra2]

I'm more a reader than a poster on these forums. My only gripe with X is why do you always double, triple, quadruple post? the EDIT feature is there for a reason...