NEW Florida Fast Electric Club

[sailr]

After spending the day charging batteries, lubing shafts, etc etc etc and loading up my car, when I went to go home from my warehouse the shifter on my car broke. Must be a cable or something. Had to call the wife to come get me to take me home. I'm hung up today emcee'ing an airplane event so if I can't get my car fixed late this afternoon I'm SOL for Akerman. DANG DANG DANG DANG!

[RCKong]

I'm going to bring my DF 33, I guess would be P Mono, 1/10 hydro, maybe 1/8 hydro

[bill34207]

I'm going to bring my DF 33, I guess would be P Mono, 1/10 hydro, maybe 1/8 hydro

You have a 1/8 too? Betweenn the 3 of us we could almost have a heat race. Except I don't know if mine would make it 6 laps without swamping yet and is nowhere close to being dialed in. It's only seen water once and drowned the esc on that outing.
Your DF33 should be P mono as long as it's running 4s.

PS for Jim. Hope you can get your van fixed and join us.

[sailr]

I put a bandaid on the van and I am going to brave it tomorrow. I have tools and more zip ties onboard just in case. The fitting that attaches the shift cable to the shift lever is shot. I zip tied it on! My wife says I'm crazy but damn, the van is all loaded and I worked a 12 hour day to charge batteries, lube shafts, load the van, etc. I'm goin by george!

LSH
Spec Offshore
Q offshore
1/10th Vintage Scale
Spec Tunnel

[tiqueman]

I'll be at Akerman on Sunday. Coming a little light this time. LSH, 1/10th scale Vintage, Q offshore, Spec Offshore (we need more in this class. The new PB Geico qualifies), Spec Tunnel OB.

HighNDry...where are you?

I just finished peakin batteries. I have a PB Geico that Ive onyl run 2 set of packs thru. Itll be out there to hopefully run Spec offshore. Ive also got my Genesis.. Q offshore?

[bill34207]

Just finished charging packs myself. It's been pretty much an all day job. Looks like we may have a decent turnout and should be a fun day.
PS Yep on Q offshore for Genesis on 6s

[ron1950]

bill u get that flexshaft on your mono fixed? id hate to lose my props that way......

[bill34207]

Hi Ron, how's the referee job holding up? I put another one in it the next day and ordered a replacement prop. It arrived yesterday and managed to get it s/b today while charging packs for tomorrow..

[tiqueman]

Dang Bill.. you been busy! You running it tomorrow?

[tiqueman]

PS, Ron, your retired now, hurry up and drive down for tomorrows events!

[ron1950]

too much refereeing to be done...beleave daughter is going back to her moms tomorrow and the family fued can be over lol.....maybe in january or so as its getting cold here only going to be 60 something and rain tomorrow but we are going to test anyway i hope inbetween showers

[bill34207]

Dang Bill.. you been busy! You running it tomorrow?

Planning to run it, and the 1/8 scale hydro too. Busy is an understatement. Got a lot of the seam work done on my new cat build and made up some bushing inserts for the stingers.

[osprey21]

It's shaping up to be a beautiful day on the water.

See y'all soon!

[bill34207]

Auuuuggggh!

I think that's how Charlie Brown says it.
Ran the hydro again today with much better success. It was no match for Hebner's since I was kinda scared to really pull the trigger. Almost blew it over once on the back stretch and did have it leave the water and turn half way around on the front straight. That's when I stopped since it snapped the sacrificial bolt in the rudder.
The real reason for the AUUUUGGGH is that somebody (I will leave him nameless) pushed the wrong button on my camcorder. There's a still shot where the video should have started and another still when it was pushed again to stop recording. Got the same thing on my DF41 run. Somehow I wound up with about 20 minutes of footage shooting the inside of my van too. (think I might be the guilty one on that)
Oh well, the rest of the vids will be up later on when they are done. Got tham all copied to my computer and working on converting.

[osprey21]

Oh boy......



slinks away in shame......