NEW Florida Fast Electric Club

[RayR]

I got a question. Has anybody in here tried using anti seize for lubing their flex cables?

The owner of my local hobby shop (George's) has been telling me about using a mix of it and STP as being "the best" thing for shaft lube. George does have a lot of boating experience but it's from the 70's and 80's and he's quick to say that our electrics are a lot faster than what you could expect from a glow motor back when he was racing and building boats.

Don't know about anti-sieze, but I use a 50/50 mix of STP and Marvel Mystery oil for my Outboard legs.

[RCKong]

nope on the anti seize Bill, although engine assembly lube works great... if your talking about losing several 3/16 cables in that big boat, I dont think lube is the problem. I think you need 1/4 cable for it, and maybe an oiler. Yur puttin about 10 horse on that small cable, pushing a 20lb boat. Something has to give.

[bill34207]

Only lost one in it Brian and have already swapped it over to the .250 cable. The cable didn't actually break though. It just grabbed ono the teflon liner and started spinning it. That in turn generated enough heat to soften the epoxy holding the brass tube and it started spinning until it burned through the nylon cable ties and started whipping around inside the hull. The .250 cable is installed without a teflon liner.

This Sunday's test n tune is going to be almost like starting over with it. New strut for the 1/4" drive (eyeballed set to close to the same angle). Futaba radio installed, and yesterday robbed the SF 240 out of the Arapaho and stuck it in it. (Didn't want to chance starting a fire in front of the gas guys with the Castle).

[RCKong]

Yea I'll be at Ackerman this weekend.I need some practice, and to make sure my boats run okay for the races on the 4th. heres a pic of my just built tunnel hull.
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[bill34207]

Looks good. Is that the same tunnel you got from Jim?

[RCKong]

yea, it sure is

[RCKong]

looking forward to seeing how it runs

[bill34207]

Looks killer. May need to tilt the drive up a bit more though.

[RCKong]

Thanks. I'm sure I got some dialing in to do.

[ron1950]

ya the angle on the lower unit will make it go into orbit...try to make it dead level or nutral at first and go from there

[RCKong]

thanks. I was planning on starting there. It seems you pretty much do that with all boats.

[RayR]

Yea I'll be at Ackerman this weekend.I need some practice, and to make sure my boats run okay for the races on the 4th. heres a pic of my just built tunnel hull.
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I'll be interested to see how that Vietnam crafted fiberglass leg works. It sure is a cool looking piece.

[RCKong]

the leg is metal, so it should hold up okay.

[sailr]

I use a 50/50 30wt oil and stp.

[sailr]

Yea I'll be at Ackerman this weekend.I need some practice, and to make sure my boats run okay for the races on the 4th. heres a pic of my just built tunnel hull.
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I've seen those legs somewhere before. Where did you get it? What cables will it take?