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The Mega Motors 16/15/2 is good quality 28mm x36mm can inrunner motor, made in the Czech Republic, the numbers mean the rotor is 16mm diameter, 15mm long, and the winding is 2 turns. I get my Megas from Puffin Models in the UK, but I'm sure there are dealers in the USA, they are pretty popular for EDF and pylon planes.
I favour the Chinese Lehner style 28 and 36mm coolers (actual Lehner ones are 29.3mm to fit their motors), as they fit the Mega 16/15/X perfectly, are very thin to lower the motor for lower CoG and less bend in flex or wire, are half the weight of the same size leopard cooler, cool well, and seal well, they are pretty cheap too.
I favour wires and have run a 1.2mm wire in previous Minis, and likely will again, but the Minisprint kit comes with hardware and I just used that, (or actually a replacement as the stub fell of the flex as did many of the early ones (I hear they are better now)),its a .130 flex. rudder is cut down to just below the water pickup.
Pictures of the Bridlington lake can be found here, it really is a great facility, purpose built wade-able lake, wit tyres all round the bank to minimise damage, grass carp to eliminate weed, car park club hut with kitchen, 3 propper toilets, car park room for camping, electricity, sheltered pits, drivers stand, catch fences, shelters, permanently placed buoys on a pulley system, tannoy system from the covered CD desk under the stand, and they are working on a transponder system, it really has it all, and we hold our FE nationals there every year.
Rasch Mini Hydros can be bought, but I have searched and failed to find a web site, I guess Randolph sells as many as he can or wants to make without one. Heaths Models in the UK are a dealer and where I got my Hydro1 version, but they are not on the website so you would have to call or email, the hulls are supplied as glass/carbon parts, all the parts are flangeless joined (wet on wet I think) and the hatch is cut, but not drilled or marked and with no instructions, so some experience is necessary.
I favour the Chinese Lehner style 28 and 36mm coolers (actual Lehner ones are 29.3mm to fit their motors), as they fit the Mega 16/15/X perfectly, are very thin to lower the motor for lower CoG and less bend in flex or wire, are half the weight of the same size leopard cooler, cool well, and seal well, they are pretty cheap too.
I favour wires and have run a 1.2mm wire in previous Minis, and likely will again, but the Minisprint kit comes with hardware and I just used that, (or actually a replacement as the stub fell of the flex as did many of the early ones (I hear they are better now)),its a .130 flex. rudder is cut down to just below the water pickup.
Pictures of the Bridlington lake can be found here, it really is a great facility, purpose built wade-able lake, wit tyres all round the bank to minimise damage, grass carp to eliminate weed, car park club hut with kitchen, 3 propper toilets, car park room for camping, electricity, sheltered pits, drivers stand, catch fences, shelters, permanently placed buoys on a pulley system, tannoy system from the covered CD desk under the stand, and they are working on a transponder system, it really has it all, and we hold our FE nationals there every year.
Rasch Mini Hydros can be bought, but I have searched and failed to find a web site, I guess Randolph sells as many as he can or wants to make without one. Heaths Models in the UK are a dealer and where I got my Hydro1 version, but they are not on the website so you would have to call or email, the hulls are supplied as glass/carbon parts, all the parts are flangeless joined (wet on wet I think) and the hatch is cut, but not drilled or marked and with no instructions, so some experience is necessary.
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