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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
ok time to fit all the runing gear back into the boat, this is now becoming second nature, I can do it with my eyes closed! Batts charged, time for a bench test, horror!! at half stick, there is a bad resonate vibration, flippin heck!!!> we …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
ignore the wiring mess, this was just a set up to see if it worked. The wires on the left are from the "y" connector from the two esc's, to the switch. The switch on the left arms the speed controllers, switch on right is receiver power. Fo …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
On to something that I REALLY wanted from the beginning, working exhausts, well, at least the Impression they work. The water from the cooling pickups goes up the tube, along the ally tube, into motor mount, into esc, then back down the boa …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
It was pure luck that we had not yet final cut the shafts, so still had enough shaft to accomodate the cooling blocks. The shafts in the pictures are not the ones fitted into the boat, incase you think they keep getting removed! On fitting …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Good question from Alan, whta happens if one of the motors dies, the only difficult part of removal is the can is an interference fit, so needs a bit of teasing off. There is a 3mm grub screw at the back of the motor that grabs the shaft. I …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Now the problem with this set up is there is no room for error, everything needs to line up right, or it will shake to bits. I ordered the shafts from a UK supplier, who will remain nameless. I had a real bad time with them, spent a small f …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboattwin screw brushless conversion
Throttle and compass made from scraps
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
My wheelhouse required some rebuilding, it was damaged, so I used the opportunity to do some interior detail. Using an original picture of the interior detail, the dashboard was fashioned out of plywood. The dials cut out from some online p …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
on the previous picture, you can see how far out the windows were. The new plasticard sides are epoxied to the sides, virtually ready for paint with very little prep required. I should have mentioned this at the beginning, my boat is modell …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
The cabin sides, well if anyone is familiar with these aerokits boats, the cabin windows are never equal and straight, it really bugged me with my smaller 3 foot version, the cabin windows being unequal and not straight, so I have decided t …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
As you can probably tell, I'm racing through the glassing, and paint prep. its a real Important part of the build, but I found it soooo boring! Not long before the real interesting stuff comes along, especially the driveline Time to turn th …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion -
paint, at last, I have opted for halfords filler primer, dont know why, I was disappointed last time I used it , but will give it another go. The hull is quite nice and flat, after a LOT of rubbing down, I wanted a primer that will allow so …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
I need to slow down, or it will get boring, and I will take over the forum As mentioned previously, we decided that we need to glass the hull, this will make sure the wood does not rot in the future, as we dont know how old the boat actuall …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Fibre glassing......the secret is, go to a friends house, use his workshop, then all the resin drips on his floor! In all seriousness, on a big boat like this, its a two man job, as the resin goes off quite quick, and the cloth shrinks, pul …
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Aerokits 46" twin screw brushless conversion
as you can see I was very lucky with this buy, its in excellent condition, so a lot of the work is already done. I dont do full builds, I seem to specialise with refurbs and rescuing unfinished projects! I am using a digital servo for rudde …
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Aerokits 46" fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Before glassing starts, I needed to change from single screw to twin screw, never had a twin screw boat before, so this is new territory for me, time to enlist some help! so ity was over to HS93'S workshop! We set on the hull where I wanted …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Next bit is horrible, preparing for the paint. With my smaller 36" Fireboat, it suffered after time with delamination, so I decided to fibreglass this boat, I had only done this once before, so was dreading this job. The photo is the fibreg …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
After 12 months in the loft, summer 2011 its time to make a start, so off with the paint!, what a terrible job, don't know what it was painted with but it WOULD NOT come off, then when things seems to be at their darkest, my mentor (a very …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
On bringing it home, I stripped out all the junk, and sold the motor on ebay, it had never been run, I didnt know what the motor was, but it fetched £60, so the boat now owed me £15 , it gets better and better though, where do you store a b …
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Aerokits 46" twin screw brushless conversion
The boat was rescued summer 2010 from ebay, soundly made, true and square, never run or put in the water, circa late sixties, and sat in a loft ever since. it lived in the south Wales area, difficult to get to, and no postage offered, so fo …
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Aerokits 46" twin screw brushless conversion
I have had a few enquiries regarding different parts of my boat, so thought it might be interesting to feature the blog here, seeing as this is the spiritual home of Fireboats! I'm certainly no expert, most of the idea's were "borrowed", an …
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First Brushless Test
With the boat weighing a lot less it was a lot faster. Although over half the boat was out of the water it planed fairly level but was very difficult to drive. And after a few minutes of driving with LIPO the tamiya connector's melted, …
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Brushless Motor In + LIPO
The rest of the parts arrived and the motor is now in. Tested it in the bath and the power was incredible, easily twice the power of the graupner 600, next is a test on the lake. I also brought a 7.4V 4000mah LIPO pack for my car so while I …
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3D Printed RAF Crash Tender 35"
… el is approximately 35 inches long and will be powered by a brushless motor on a single shaft. I am currently working through the construction, finishing and painting stages, and will post updates as the build progresses. I am looking forwa …
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Model Slipway Vosper RTTL
… by a 6 volt Speed 400, and one was included, but I’m going brushless with this build. First thing after cutting out the hull, deck and interior liner is to clean up and trim, then you’re supposed to build up the rudder from 2 abs halves an …
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The Motor & Prop shaft.
At this stage I need to do the final alignment of the brushless motor, coupling and prop-shaft. The motor mount is just a regular glass reinforced plastic mount from ModelBoatBits for a M500/600 motor. The motor is an Overlander T3548/05 as …
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Something a little different-Horizon Harbor Tug
… ad to make a mount for my preferred motor, the Zippkits 650 brushless outrunner, that’s coupled to the shaft with a good solid coupler. Esc is a HobbyWing 16BL30 30 amp unit. I had to do some modifications to mount my preferred Amazon sourc …