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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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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
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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Veron Huntsman 28 brushless video
quite a few places sell them it was a xmas pressie two years ago, and I have a gps expander, lcd screen, rev counter, they are all quite cheap plug ins, it is invaluable to me, I love tinkering with set ups, the Huntsman runs a belt drive g …
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4 foot Aerokits Crashtender refurbed with twin brushless
Ill do a full build log if anybody is interested! , it was on another forum, but really should be here as this is the spiritual home of Fireboats! Its twin 800kv motors, (with a twist!)running 4 x 5000mah 2 cell lipos (4 cells per motor) wi …
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46 In Fireboat Brushless Repower
hi, yes have run the 46'' fireboat several times, starting with the Turnigy 900watt motor on 12v with 4600 cells and now up to 16.8 . performance is terrific, quick onto the plane and then fast ! Have not posted video yet but a still is att …
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Brushless Motors
Hello, I am just a newbie here but have been into rc for lifetime. I am building a 1/12th scale all-metal #260 brass USS Holland submarine with an in-runner brush-less motor used for rock-crawler vehicles.These BL motors are very slow runni …
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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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Riva Aquarama 1/5th Scale
… he ESCs are isolated from the hull (I really don't like the brushless whine!). Custom three part couplings (Kali type), thrust bearings for forward and astern to avoid any thrust reaching motors. - Water pump varies flow by motor speed, and …
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Riva Aquarama 1/10th Scale
… along the forward chine to generate more lift forward. Two brushless 3530 1100kv motors using belts to get a low shaft angle driving exposed shafts. Two 3,300mah LiPos give an hours run time.
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Control and power chassis
… e power electronics and making future access simple. At the brushless‑motor end of the access area, the two ESCs are installed in a fixed position, with clean routing for the motor leads. Power‑in sockets for each LiPo battery have been add …
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Re: Sprite
… ce for the Sprite Plus when paired with a different type of brushless motor. When I worked with large scale r/c racing cars, it was not uncommon to find that some servos just did not seem to “like” working together. This was especially noti …
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Three Sea Commanders !
… ic Model Power Boat that performs really well with a modern brushless motor that can hold its own against any similar sized model power boat. Bob.
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Pursuit
… is still in reasonably good condition. The boat came with a brushless motor factory fitted but needed an ESC and r/c system and a good (powerful and fast metal geared) steering servo to be fitted. I ran this boat quite a lot on 4C LiPo batt …
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ASSEMBLING VIVACITY'S KEEL - Feb - July 2026.
… po. After much deliberation weighing up a brushed set-up vs brushless, then choosing brushless only to find the only way I could get a low enough kv motor for the 3 inch prop speed to be acceptably low was to use an aero motor, I finally se …
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VIC SMEED'S VIVACITY
… rdmeyer who owns SAB Model Boat Fittings - thanks Bill! The brushless motor and speed controller should be arriving in the next week or two. When they do, I intend to set up an engine/propshaft test to see what the performance specs are lik …
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Re: build blog
… ig boat at 49". It's not a heavy boat, so, twin 3542-1450Kv brushless motors on 3S Lipo batteries??? The Dumas Trojan is a keeper, it was design with twin brush motors which would not pull skin off custard !!! So it's having a single brushl …
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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 …