A good place for small disposable mixing cups is GFS (Gordon Food Services). They have several different sizes and shapes.
I will be interested to hear more about you experience with the expanding foam. I picked up a new UL-1 last week and upon first inspection my turn fin area seems to be fine. I plan on "injecting" West Systems epoxy into the turn fin mounting holes to increase strength in that area.
I use the small disposable Dixie bathroom paper cups for all mixing.
Actually, one of the best souces is your local pharmacist. They provide neat measuring cups for methodone users with markings.
You have to ask them with a very straight face
Douggie
No wax coating on small paper Dixie cups.
Niros Gyros
Culvers
Whatever
They always have stacks of small mixing cups for me… to……..use…..
I have not bought a mixing cup in years... they come with the sandwich..
Grim
Ha! Good one Grim. All my places down here seem to have the condiments in packets, not cups. No worries!
Niros is great, Mike. Want to meet for lunch Thu 11:30 there?
Andy
Spektrum Development Team
Dang! You're making me hungry! Now I guess I'll have to go get a gyro down the street tomorrow!
I drink a lot of crystal light...the little plastic cups it comes in is perfect for the job. Ya get 6 to a package.
Good Morning Darin...
Following your instructions... "
Maybe a dumb question... But... Why not put 2 Turn Fins on... ??? ??? one on each side as I see some doing on the SV27, w/the factory selling a Port side fin... ???
Also, to save a few $$$, think I can get away with using 1 or both of my crawler lipo's
http://www.maxamps.com/Lipo-4000-74-Saddle.htm
Holler and Thanks,
Luke
Good news! The Krylon Fusion with the Model Masters clear over it held up just fine to the tape! Hoooray! I use vinyl tape (electrical tape) instead of the high dollar hatch tape. It lays down better, conforms better, has less adhesion and doesn't leave any residue. Walmart sells a CLEAR electrical tape in their automotive department for $1.79 a roll. BARGAIN! It works great!!
Also, I filled the hull with the foam Darin recommended. Great stuff. The hull is now solid as a rock! Ran the boat the first time last weekend and it's a Keeper for sure!
So Darin,
Is this thread dead now that your running an Proboat hull?
Well... no... but the UL1 is ready to go. Haven't done anything with it since then... I may do the foam-pour thing to it once my order of that arrives...
Darin E. Jordan - Renton, WA
"Self-proclaimed skill-less leader in the hobby."
I just wanted to say thanks to Offshore Electrics and Darin for this writup. I did it last night and thanks to the work of everyone here it went off without a hitch. a couple more epoxy pours and it will be "rock solid"
Last edited by engineerjoe; 04-03-2009 at 09:57 AM.
Darin, do you think Aquacraft will make changes to the fin on their later models ? Or, why there is no fin on the left side taking away some of the force?
BDW, very cool showing of your 2 mods. ( so fare )
Great info here Darin, I'm just doing the same process, and will finish it off with expanding urethane inside to act as a space frame to support the thin skin. I also used a Kintec fin bracket which adds a third hole. It is rock solid.
My backing plate shape was quite different from yours, as the third hole lines up with the lower standard hole, and your backing plate design didn't allow that hole to be located on it.
My shape was more like this...
Hi from Australia
Thanks for the template did the same thing using your turning fin Template using Alluminum instead of timber - works well also glassed the area 4 layers
This boat is very thin compared to other nitro boats!!!!
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What Prop do you guys think is the best currently running standard prop brought Aq 40-57/3 have not sharpened this yet thinkin I may get this done or is this easy to do??
Thanks
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Last edited by bedrock; 03-06-2011 at 04:25 PM.
Gday bedrock were in Aus do you live
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seems like this thread has slow down , well good news Im bringging it back I`m thinking about doing the air dam does it work ? im still a bit offish wouldn`t aquacraft figure that out before they release this boat with all the hype you would think this was allready figure out , don`t get me wrong I love the UL 1 but does it really handle when you put the coals on , major wobble , thats what i get do have to add air dam to settle the sponsons why ? even so still wobbles , sorry just dissapointed I realised this is whole different animal , but give me Catamaran and it just handles , sorry just venting my UL 1 works but don`t hit full throttle she gets squirlly , slow down so she wont flip , come on I`m jet pilot i like to go fast , i don`t want to slow down , only when i need too LOL
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