Mr Krabs build

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Well Paddy I am a bit confused here
Never send the boat out without taping the hatch cover in place. Your boat needs to be waterproof. Steven sells a very good tape called hockey tape (not to be confused with hockey mom). It is wide and gets a good grip.

My last girlfriend was a hockey mom, she was wide and could get a great grip!! I think you are talking about her and not the tape.
The tape is thin and sticky...................

LOL. Maybe you were feeding her too well if she was wide Andy.
Now we will get all the "your Momma is so fat" jokes

[andym]

You mean like these Paddy ? It is probably why she smacked me in the mouth and left....Ha Ha
Yo momma's so fat she needs a VCR for a pager

Yo Momma so fat the back of her neck looks like a pack of hotdogs

Your mama's so fat that her belly button makes an echo

Yo momma's so fat her cerial bowl comes with a lifeguard

Yo momma so fat when she walks past window we lose four days of sun light

Yo momma's so fat she had to get baptised at sea world

Your momma's so fat when she fell over, she rocked herself to sleep tryin to get back up again

Your mammas so fat and stupid, when it was raining she used the freeway for a slip and slide

Yo momma's so fat that when the whales saw her they started singing "we are family"

[Ub Hauled]

Oldies:
Yo momma is so fat she has her own zip code...

that's the only one I know.

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Now you two have got Mr. Krabs laughing.

[andym]

Paddy this thread seems to have gone a long way of track, how about an update and video of her running the V47/3 blader ? Have you tried that new x642 on the XS 2 yet?

[slimshady]

Now you two have got Mr. Krabs laughing.

Yes Paddy now I have the krabs ...... oppps I meant Mr krabs..... lol

Tonight I have mostly been fitting the transition and rudder.

Thanks again for responding to my questions – very helpful indeed


Talk soon and thanks again

Slim

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[QUOTE=andym;62690]Paddy this thread seems to have gone a long way of track, how about an update and video of her running the V47/3 blader ? Have you tried that new x642 on the XS 2 yet?[/QUOTE]

Andy I have only had time to test the Xs2 with the x642 but bad news. I swerved to miss a duck and the boat went upside down. By the time me and the rubber duck got out there the Xs2 was half full of water. I guess I did not do a great job with the hockey tape. I will have to stop taping the gps to the outside as it pulls the tape when it goes upside down.
I have been working on the FE Model Boat computer program though so it is not all bad news

[andym]

No damage I hope, just one more reason to hit them instead .................

[egneg]

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Paddy this thread seems to have gone a long way of track, how about an update and video of her running the V47/3 blader ? Have you tried that new x642 on the XS 2 yet?QUOTE]

Andy I have only had time to test the Xs2 with the x642 but bad news. I swerved to miss a duck and the boat went upside down. By the time me and the rubber duck got out there the Xs2 was half full of water. I guess I did not do a great job with the hockey tape. I will have to stop taping the gps to the outside as it pulls the tape when it goes upside down.
I have been working on the FE Model Boat computer program though so it is not all bad news

At least you still have your's ... my GPS is at the bottom of the pond. It had new batteries so I figure my average speed is pretty low by now.

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At least you still have your's ... my GPS is at the bottom of the pond. It had new batteries so I figure my average speed is pretty low by now.

LOL. Chuck you have just the best sense of humor. I lost one also but I was not using Steven's hockey tape then. I think you could mend holes in your underpants with that hockey tape.

[Heath M]

Hi Slim and Paddy;
I have been screwing things together for over 35 years. I have learned a thing or two about screwing.
Paddy, if you put a little wax in the threads of the screw, just 3 or 4 threads near the tip by dragging the screw across some wax, bees wax is best but a candle will do. The screws will go in quite smoothly, the friction of the screw turning in will liquefy the wax and it makes a good lubricant. When the wax cools it returns to a solid state and the screw will not come out unless you ask it nicely.

I am a cabinet maker and if you try to drive a screw into a hard wood (Oak or Maple, Alder) with out wax it binds so bad sometimes that the screw will break. then you are really screwed.
I always want to know why something works.

The short answer is use a little wax on the screws and you won't need to hold the boom with pliers.
Viking

soap works just as well and everyone, except the "POMS" has it lying around the house..
Sorry Slim counld'nt resist lol

Heath

[slimshady]

Yes we only have the normal stuff about the house but down under you all use the triple strength radioactive soap.

Sorry couldn’t resist

Slim

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Yes we only have the normal stuff about the house but down under you all use the triple strength radioactive soap.

Sorry couldn’t resist

Slim

LOL. Go get him Slim. The mainlanders give us Tasmanians hell too.
I hope your Mr. Krabs is progressing nicely.

[slimshady]

Hi Paddy, not so good news for us POMs today losing the Rugger but what the hell I am going to watch England V South Africa at twikers next week so we will probably get a good dicking then as well but it should be a good day out.

As for Mr Krabs, I have made a bit of progress but not as much as I would have hoped, I enclose some photos. I have fixed the motor mount (custom hand built in CF and ali) and I have also managed to fit the prop mount, prop shaft, rudder and RF mast, all the other components have been simply laid into the hull awaiting fixture of some kind. It’s bizarre, when I first got the hull I thought what a lot of space I have to work with but now it is so small (shame you can’t easily mount items in the clubs i.e. electrics). In addition it is very very hard to get your fingers into the stern and bow, as you can see I have not fixed the front boom holding plates in place correctly and the rear nuts were a nightmare to get to. I have also not quite fitted the top boom wall plugs (brought new 8mm ones today but they are too tight). The water pipe as shown has been cut too long just in case I move things about tomorrow.

Ignore the crap 3300 motor and 60A ESC, when I eventually have some more cash to play with (could take some time with our economy and Christmas coming up soon) I will change them out for superior products, I just want to run her now, might get a bit of play time tomorrow if I figure out how to mount the servo and fit the water cooling.

She feels a bit heavy now and I am worried the rear end will sink a bit before I even start.

Enjoy the photos, and please advise if you think something is wrong (as long as it’s not about the transmission because that is now part of the hull)


Slim

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As for Mr Krabs, I have made a bit of progress but not as much as I would have hoped, I enclose some photos. I have fixed the motor mount (custom hand built in CF and ali) and I have also managed to fit the prop mount, prop shaft, rudder and RF mast, all the other components have been simply laid into the hull awaiting fixture of some kind. It’s bizarre, when I first got the hull I thought what a lot of space I have to work with but now it is so small (shame you can’t easily mount items in the clubs i.e. electrics). In addition it is very very hard to get your fingers into the stern and bow, as you can see I have not fixed the front boom holding plates in place correctly and the rear nuts were a nightmare to get to. I have also not quite fitted the top boom wall plugs (brought new 8mm ones today but they are too tight). The water pipe as shown has been cut too long just in case I move things about tomorrow.

Ignore the crap 3300 motor and 60A ESC, when I eventually have some more cash to play with (could take some time with our economy and Christmas coming up soon) I will change them out for superior products, I just want to run her now, might get a bit of play time tomorrow if I figure out how to mount the servo and fit the water cooling.

She feels a bit heavy now and I am worried the rear end will sink a bit before I even start.

Enjoy the photos, and please advise if you think something is wrong (as long as it’s not about the transmission because that is now part of the hull)


Slim

Slim,
Thanks for the photos. It is good to see you are also making some of your own components out of CF. My 8mm wall plugs were a little tight also but the epoxy acted as a lubricant and a bit of persuasion with a mallet helped also
When you first test it put on a smaller prop than you think you need and give it 2 or 3 circuits and then bring it in and check the temperatures of the esc, motor and battery. If the boat is dragging the transom in the water ( as mine did ) at first, bring it in and drop the strut down so that it planes. When my hull is at rest on the water quite a lot of the transom is in the water but it quickly lifts out with a few revs of the motor.
I would not put the servo where you have it in the photo. As this hull goes faster you will need to shift some of your weight up to the nose ( bow ) of the boat. You will also need to be able to move the battery up hard against the boom carrier to get the CG about right. I have as much weight as I can get forward and at 108 kph it is just starting to lift the sponsons off the water. I have found that my YGE controller will fit under the boom carrier and slide all the way to the front of the hull so this will move my CG a little further forward. I also run my receiver battery pack under that boom carrier and up the front on top of the YGE controller as well. At slower speeds you will not have blow over problems but as the speed increases you need to either move the CG further forward or make other changes to hardware to keep those sponsons either on or just off the water. I love to see pictures of riggers at high speed with the sponsons riding on air but only just clear of the water. The less boat in the water, the higher the speed. The higher the sponsons come off the water the more likely it is that the hull will blow over. It is a real balancing act. Just when you think you have it right a little breeze comes and blows the boat over anyway.
Posts #45 and #47 will show you where I mounted my servo and how I made the mount. I hope this helps.
Paddy