Forum: Boats!
08-25-2022, 11:51 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 8,922
Re: RC Benchy
My back yard is a park. That park is next to what I think used to be a mill pond of some sort on the river. So yeah - I got a place to try it out. I used to run my Seaport/Harbor tug conversion...
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Forum: Boats!
08-23-2022, 01:34 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 8,922
Re: RC Benchy
Faster than a slow boat from China?
Don't know yet, I don't want too much speed, he is a heavily armed TUGBOAT after all. He's got more of a high speed prop now. I'm pretty sure it's not what...
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Forum: Farm Tractors and Implements
08-22-2022, 02:32 PM
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Replies: 53
Views: 15,696
Re: Cockshutt 70 tractor (1935-48)
That Cockshutt must have one HELLUVA exhaust leak. Every time I forgot to take the can off the muffler of a tractor, it got blown off when the engine fired up.
Don
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Forum: Boats!
08-22-2022, 01:44 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 8,922
Re: RC Benchy
I got a little more work done on Benchy, he's VERY monochromatic right now. Apparently he didn't get the memo that the Great White Fleet sailed YEARS ago....
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Forum: Construction Equipment
08-17-2022, 04:55 PM
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Replies: 2
Views: 604
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Forum: Mechanical tech
08-11-2022, 01:30 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 5,127
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Forum: Body Shop Tech
07-01-2022, 12:48 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 5,240
Re: 3D Printer files for Bodies
I don't know if this counts, but I'm currently working on the 3D model for "Big Red". This was Ford's gas turbine concept truck built for the 1964 World's Fair. Big Red was given coast to coast...
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Forum: Construction Equipment
05-31-2022, 02:45 PM
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Replies: 98
Views: 19,664
Re: Build an Excavator from Scratch
Pufferfish:
I've been watching a youtube channel called Fitzee's Fabrications. He does bodywork including fabricating some very complex replacement panels using simple hand tools, including some...
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Forum: Construction Equipment
05-25-2022, 04:59 PM
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Replies: 98
Views: 19,664
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Forum: Static Conversions
05-25-2022, 11:35 AM
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Replies: 21
Views: 9,302
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Forum: Boats!
05-20-2022, 02:21 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 8,922
Re: RC Benchy
The seagulls showed up last night, and it looks like Fire Control is ready to repel all boarders....
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Forum: Construction Equipment
05-18-2022, 01:52 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 13,339
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Forum: Construction Equipment
05-13-2022, 02:37 PM
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Replies: 98
Views: 19,664
Re: Build an Excavator from Scratch
I was going to ask how you were cutting your parts, then I saw your saw. You've got some fairly tight curves that you appear to be cutting. What are you using for a blade on that saw?
Don
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Forum: Construction Equipment
05-11-2022, 04:35 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 18,466
Re: Yale Forklift - NewRay
Nope those were the Doozies! (Or was that Doozers?) Loved that radish mine. Now ya got me wondering if I can get the complete Fraggle Rock collection on DVD.
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Forum: Construction Equipment
05-10-2022, 01:43 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 18,466
Re: Yale Forklift - NewRay
In Bi-centennial Man, "Andrew" was just shipped in a big coffin sized wooden crate. (I think it was wooden, I seem to remember them prying it open in the movie.)
Presumably the crate had the...
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Forum: Boats!
05-05-2022, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 8,922
Re: RC Benchy
I could just drill it out, but I want the U-joint, just in case there are any alignment issues.
I just got the e-mail that the u-joint will be waiting for me when I get home. (It wasn't on a slow...
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Forum: Boats!
05-04-2022, 12:41 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 8,922
Re: RC Benchy
The parts have started arriving. I got the motor and the prop shaft earlier, and last night I got the ESC. I got the motor installed, and the shaft fitted ready for installation. The connector was...
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Forum: Boats!
04-27-2022, 10:20 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 8,922
Re: RC Benchy
Benchy's temporarily on the back burner while I wait for parts to arrive.
You know, the unimportant stuff like the motor. an ESC, the prop-shaft and bearings, the prop, more servos - little stuff...
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Forum: Boats!
04-22-2022, 01:29 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 8,922
Re: RC Benchy
Mario's surgery was done the old fashioned way, with saw and filler. I just amputated his arm at the elbow and then reattached it. I think it turned out OK. Here's a couple of views of the...
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Forum: Boats!
04-21-2022, 02:52 PM
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Replies: 39
Views: 8,922
Re: RC Benchy
Mario is out of surgery and recovering nicely. His time under the knife wasn't too drastic. I just bent his arm a little, and twisted it a bit. Just enough so that he doesn't look quite so much...
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Forum: Boats!
04-15-2022, 11:17 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 8,922
Re: RC Benchy
Frizzen:
Actually since I work where Cap'n Crunch is made, it was STRONGLY hinted that the Cap'n should BE the captain of Benchy. I saw that version of the Cap'n, unfortunately I don't have the...
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Forum: Construction Equipment
04-14-2022, 04:16 PM
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Replies: 29
Views: 5,518
Re: 1/12th RC Crawler Crane Dragline Plans
There are times when having a 3rd arm like Riza in MIB International would sure come in handy.
Like running an RC dragline, or when needing to hold 2 parts while applying glue to the joint, or....
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Forum: Boats!
04-14-2022, 10:47 AM
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Replies: 39
Views: 8,922
Re: RC Benchy
Take a look at this and see what you think, has Benchy got a Cap'n? (I think so.)...
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Forum: Construction Equipment
04-08-2022, 04:30 PM
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Replies: 30
Views: 9,509
Re: 3D Filament color match to Bruder
Yup, I've got most of a roll of "Iron Red" to use up. And then an unopened roll of "True Yellow" that I'll have to use for something.
You gotta wonder who comes up with these names. And if they...
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Forum: Body Shop Tech
04-08-2022, 02:46 PM
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Replies: 8
Views: 5,240
Re: 3D Printer files for Bodies
Maybe THAT's why if I don't print something every couple of days I'll find the filament snapped off at the extruder drive? The Plastic Pooping Robot got bored and was acting out?
Don
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