Hello Dave,I'm looking in to relocting the single servo and as you say the rear well would be ideal- my servo linkages are soft soldered to rudder via a long rod -? would that be the usual way of making the linkage?, I might need to look at this area! Also I think I need to keep all the units off the hull base and secured to a bulkhead ?
PeteG.

HI Pete
Soldered indicates the vintage of your model. Can be used but better solutions available. Don't understand why you fear the hull base. The lower the weight the better for stability. I will post a couple of pictures of my setup so you can get the general idea. Will have to post on your other blog re this boat. Cheers Dave

HI Roger
My monitors were kindly produced some time ago by another member of this site who was unfortunately at the last request unable to make any more. You might like to have a go making suitably scaled down versions in the method shown by Pete Harvey on his 46" Fireboat restoration on his website ( link in the 'Useful Links' part of this site ) my initial effort was to try drilling out some white metal fittings- this only proved the soft cheese is probably a more suitable material!
Water is pumped to the monitors using an ebay sourced Astra windscreen washer pump which works fine on my 9.6v setup.
Good luck
Chris

HI again
Just to mention that Monitors for the 34" boat are available separately from the 'Online Shop'section of this site. ( Don't think they are working however )
Chris

Hello Basher, I have just registered on this site only minutes ago and Immediately saw your post. To me it is appropriate that you posted it on my birthday, 10th March thus my response. I admire the fact that you renamed the ship in a memory that is precious to you,a very sincere thing to do.Good luck with getting the ship into a fine working order. Best regards, Steve Heward. steve-fb40.

Hello Steve and a million thanks for your kind words to us..All my builds are on my facebook ..http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1726314474940&set=a.1698666823766.95758.1150756101#!/profile.php?id=1150756101&sk=
photos not sure how to link to it but doess this above work ..My CHERYL build is now complete and seems to work ..eeek Just to get a day at the pond with crossed fingers ..I am bit pathetic on the electrics (Im a Joiner to trade)explains a lot LOL ..Thanks again for your reply IAN HAMILTON

HI Colin & Chris,
There is some great work on here. I have just purchased an old mostly built 46'' Tender and want to bring it back to life. I am new to RC stuff but want to do the best scale job I can. Any drawings would be a great help to me as I don't have any and the boat has no fittings on board at all. Where could I get hold of some air cowls at this scale, pumps, pipes lights etc...
Any help would be very greatfully received.
Regards
Dean

HI Stonemonkey. I have a spare set of plans for the 46 inch boat which I can copy and send you. You can also get fittings set for these bigger boats from Lesro models. E mail me on (Email Removed - PM Only) if you want the plans.

looks great nice to see another boat brought back from the brink to do do another 40 years

peter

Hi
such a pleasure , I wonder how many there are out there now
that have been restored Simon

This looks great. Im just about to set off on the adventure of building a Range Safety Launch from scratch using a Vic Smeed plan set I have managed to obtain. The plans are 1/12th but I'm scaling down to 1/16th for practical reasons. Let me know how you get on or if you need copies of plans etc. Well done !

looks good, where do you sail

Peter

Just one word WOW