The Happy Hunter

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Looking very busy inside that hull Andy! Thats some serious engineering,sure that placement is key to maintain stability and balance once its afloat too right?

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Looking very busy inside that hull Andy! Thats some serious engineering,sure that placement is key to maintain stability and balance once its afloat too right?

Its close Trey and is as the illustrated photos. Some lead will have to be added to square her up a little i have no doubt. We will see soon i guess.

Cheers

Andy

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There is a picture manual, a building manual a construction drawing and another construction drawing with a wiring schematic luckily.

Thats some comprehensive documentation mate, lucky indeed.

That last lot of photos looks like the terminal boards i use to work on ... spagetti junction or what ?

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Thats some comprehensive documentation mate, lucky indeed.That last lot of photos looks like the terminal boards i use to work on ... spagetti junction or what ?

Thanks Colin. It will look a lot better in a couple of days im sure lol.

Cheers

Andy

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Andy, a question please?

You say fix the deck down, is there some sort of method to remove the deck to allow access to all the servos ect, yet still keep the model watertight? Or are there access panels / hatch covers cleverly positioned later in the build for this purpose?

Yet another question from an R.C. boat numpty!

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You guessed right Ron. There are inspection hatches that have a lip of roughly 1 inch around them. i believe this serves 2 purposes, one its stops water entering into the gubins and two it doubles as a securing collar that holds the bridge etc in position. All will be revealed, to be honest mate im not to sure myself yet until i build the bridge. It is looking that thats the way of things to me at the moment.

Im as much as a boat numpty as you are Ron, as you know this is my first and im finding things out as i go along. If you had asked me what a kort was a few weeks ago id have said its was a wimwam for a ducks bridle lol

Cheers

Andy

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Ive started on that rats nest tonight, took me a couple of hours to get this far. Will have it finished tomorrow and can move onto building again.

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Cheers

Andy

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Well i did a tidy up on those cables and then put the radio together and tried things out. I had a few problems with dill switches and links in some parts that needed cutting or setting for the thing to work.

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So after all that tidying up i had to cut all the ties and retrace the wiring to make sure i hadnt made a boob. Then i purchaes some stick on hooks from Wilkos and redid the loom again. Everything working correctly now i fixed on the upper deck. Ron - this should answer your question on inspection hatches.

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Now having lost a couple of days on the problems i can get back to the building.

Cheers

Andy

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Did some digging on the Hunter and found a pic of the engine room after the fire. A lick of paint and it wont look half so bad lol.

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some brasso as well

mobear

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tin of paint, tub of brasso and a bit of elbow grease and it'll look good as new eh?

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my wife made spagbol and it looked the same as your wiring

mobear

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Thanks Ole, bet it tasted better to.

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Looking good Andy, if you can say that about a mass of wiring! Pity about the slight set back, good to read it's sorted......

Yes, I can see where the access hatches go now, thanks. All taking shape nicely.

Cheers,

Ron

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Thanks Ron. Its not easy wiring these things and doing a tidy job when the leads you are working with are all pre made and fixed lengths. All you can to is undo all the crossovers and tangles and then lose the slack best you can. There are several y- leads in there to and they have loads of slack to lose.

Cheers

Andy