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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
I feel your pain! I was very reluctant to glassfibre my 3 foot Fireboat when it started delaminating, I was pretty much bullied into it. If you have see the pics of the boat finished, then you have evidence of how it turns out. Many people …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Thanks for all the replies - head is now spinning, just spent an hour with a local specialist epoxy resin Company who have baffled me with science and figures. (they denote their products with a letter and figures I.e. A 320) Thought they m …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Heat gun is a great idea Alan, I never thought of that. it would have helped
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Aerokits 46" twin screw brushless conversion
So will I! Always meddling and never satisfied
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
West systems was the other more expensive brand. Shaun matting is not what you want. That is way too heavy. You need glass cloth as you are covering the hull, not filling big holes and Imperfections on a much larger scale. Best of luck! Pau …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
I have used Epoxy resin with cloth and agree it is difficult to make good on other than flat or gently curved surfaces. Polyester layup resin works much better and you can control the setting timescale so you can ensure the cloth and resin …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
HI Shaun Paul is correct the matting is not the best option to use to cover your hull. Fibreglass cloth of 80gms is far better (1sq Metre is about £6 ) and will give you less grief than matting. You can use a plastic spreader to apply the r …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Thanks for that - I can get my David's Fastglass from the local car repair shop and having used it before am happy with it. There are two grades of matting a fairly heavy one, quite rough and a much lighter one, quite smooth was going to tr …
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Aerokits 46" twin screw brushless conversion
I will be interested to see if the gyro works. Alan
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Fibre glassing in a mates workshop, that's a good way of getting rid of friends I have always had trouble with fibre glassing, goes off too quick, does not go off at all or goes off leaving a sticky coating, can't seem to get the mix right. …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
pictures tell a story
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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
HI Shaun, good question, the z poxy was for the hull, so being under the waterline it wasnt as Important as the visible parts, such as deck etc, it was more a cost issue. I had used it before on my Huntsman, it goes on quite well and easy, …
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new build blog for 46" Aerokits Fireboat twin brushless conv
bring them on Alan, we could both learn, at least its not too late for you, its too late for me unless I start ripping things off!
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Please excuse my Ignorance in these matters but is there a reason for using the "Z-Poxy" as opposed to any other such as David, Fastglass resin which for me is easily obtainable. I will be fibre glassing the hull on my 46 inch crash tender …
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new build blog for 46" Aerokits Fireboat twin brushless conv
I will be watching it, but you could get fed up with my questions Alan
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4 foot Aerokits Crashtender refurbed with twin brushless
Hey guys I am new here and about to start building a KitShack 34" so I an definitely interested. Must say how Impressed I am with the skill levels you guys have only hope I can keep up the standard Roger
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4 foot Aerokits Crashtender refurbed with twin brushless
I wasnt sure If It was repetative to post up a build log, but recently I finished a refurb of an ebay rescuce, It was built, not really painted, never been In the water, quite a unique find. It was In the middle of south Wales, so quite dif …
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Aerokits 46" Fireboat twin screw brushless conversion
Can't quite get my head around the build blogs on this site (probably my age) looks like the most recent post is at the top and you can reply after each post. Anyway, glad you are doing this build as it will probably help me a lot with mine …
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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 …