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Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 6325 Location: Indiana, USA
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:47 am Post subject:
Oh the humanity!!!
Andrew, I feel your pain...the sound track seemed to groan a good deal at the point of roll over. I imagine your dad was almost in tears seeing it roll over. NO ONES fault...just happened.
Perhaps that boat is destined to be for pools or absolute mill pond still lagoon sailing.
Sorry for the loss of the Futaba components. Perhaps some can be salvaged...just try rinsing the salt water out of them before drying.
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Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 1735 Location: St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:12 am Post subject:
IndianaRog wrote:
Oh the humanity!!!
Andrew, I feel your pain...the sound track seemed to groan a good deal at the point of roll over. I imagine your dad was almost in tears seeing it roll over. NO ONES fault...just happened.
Perhaps that boat is destined to be for pools or absolute mill pond still lagoon sailing.
Sorry for the loss of the Futaba components. Perhaps some can be salvaged...just try rinsing the salt water out of them before drying.
Rog
Rog,
They may not know a damn thing about steam here, (although we do have a historic Steam Marine Railway, single beam, I think), but they do know a lot about boats!
We had the launch out of the water in less than three seconds. Flushed it with fresh water. Removed the access hatch, switch, battery and receiver in less than 60 seconds.
Everything was instantly rinsed with fresh water and rapidly dried with a hair dryer. The four AA batteries were discarded.
The only question is the servo. This is permanently installed below the stern and I can't get to it.
What I may do, as the Futuba kit came with two servos, is create an access hatch in the stern, kind of like this:
Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 6325 Location: Indiana, USA
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:19 am Post subject:
Richard, seems you provided the most appropriate CPR a guy could to your components, they might all be fine. I have had those Futaba servos apart, not much to them and what is there is gobbed in white lithium grease...gears internally are nylon. My guess is it will be fine. If not, your proposed stern hatch seems a superb solution.
The trials and tribulations we must deal with in pursuit of the perfect launch!!!
take heart, it will sail again and soon I'm sure.
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Joined: 25 Dec 2007 Posts: 299 Location: Cheshire, England
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:21 am Post subject:
Did it hit an underwater obstruction, or did it just spring a leak?
The best bet is to take the batteries out and run everything under fresh water for half an hour, then put them out to dry. If you are lucky and get the salt out, they should be ok.
I have seen electric boats still running after being retrieved from their underwater excursion after half an hour. But it was found a fair way away from its original sinking point, it just carried on sailing, but underwater and along the bottom.
Good luck on the relaunch
John _________________ If it looks right and feels right, then it is right.
Joined: 23 Jan 2008 Posts: 1735 Location: St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:50 am Post subject:
Bogstandard wrote:
Did it hit an underwater obstruction, or did it just spring a leak?
The best bet is to take the batteries out and run everything under fresh water for half an hour, then put them out to dry. If you are lucky and get the salt out, they should be ok.
I have seen electric boats still running after being retrieved from their underwater excursion after half an hour. But it was found a fair way away from its original sinking point, it just carried on sailing, but underwater and along the bottom.
Good luck on the relaunch
John
Thanks John,
No, it just blew over in a freak gust. We did everything on the spot we could. We'll see tomorrow how successful we were. We've run it perfectly in swimming pools on four occasions. It had always run perfectly, but this is winter here, a sudden 20 mph wind gust is not unusual. _________________ Richard
Joined: 19 Jul 2006 Posts: 11349 Location: New South Wales, Australia
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:04 am Post subject:
Good to see it's all ok.
Never would have thought that would happen
When I had my boat, it was flat bottomed, so never a risk of the wind tipping it over.
What the wind did do is constantly blow the burner out _________________
Joined: 01 Aug 2006 Posts: 14590 Location: Western Australia
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:24 am Post subject:
I've heard of people putting the batteries and receivers in zip lock bags and the sealing with an elastic band to keep the water out. Might be worth while doing as its a cheap mod that could save some future tears. Maybe even some lead weights as ballast to make it a bit harder to capsize.
For water proofing controls have a look at this website for ideas.
Here they make radio controlled battelships that actually fire ball bearings and then go out and battle each other.
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