Race

[Rex R]

you must have all sorts of fun when it comes to pulling the packs :)

[Doozie870]

If you think the cog is strange, take a peek at the shaft angle I wonder if this setup would work on the shovel.

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[Jeepers]

hmm I dont know, Rod put a straight shaft in his shovel before it ever had a paint job, that boat had all kinds of issues, transom would hop all over the place, it also spent most of its time under water, any small ripple and the boat went under.

looks like you have been buzy with the Taifun! now your gonna be slow like the rest of us, with that pretty paint job!

[ROOSTERTAIL]

str8 shafts work fine, but you have no adjustment. all changes are made by making the shaft and strut longer or shorter, once you have set the stuffing box angle for the shaft you are pretty much stuck with that angle unless you what to take it out and start over several times until you get the perfect angle and shaft length . With the strut set ups we have today there is no real reason to use str8s unless your a glutten for punishment and like to tinker with out dated systems that are proven less effective. Well built Wire drives have nearly 80% less rotating mass this results in measureable increased prop rpm. A stainless solid shaft will also be 5-7 times heavier then a wire drive and 2-3 times heavier then a .098 flex cable. It would be easier, cost effective and higher performing to use an adjustable strut system. I think that Graupner design you are comparing to is nearly 20 years old any way, FE boats have come along way since then, I think if Graupner released that boat today it would have and adjustable stut and shaft on on it. What bennifit are you looking for with the use of a solid , str8 shaft?

[Doozie870]

Jeep, that is a second one thats never been on the water.

Rooster, thanks for the info Ill go wire drive on the shovel.

[Doozie870]

There is a video of my Taifuin on rcflix, labeled "my first lsh", it does pretty good I think.