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Electronize speed controllers
I've partially dismantled the Tug. The main PCB is in the deckhouse. Classic Chinese; some brilliant and a few very bad bits, especially on the main motor drive controller output with reject soldering. No wonder blowups and burnouts have be …
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Electronize speed controllers
… tips from Simple Sailor I have ordered some MOSfets for the Tug mod. As it is a small current ( until things go wrong) it looks like tiny devices will do. In past life I was working at 3500V and 4000A pulses so this to me is tiny, a challen …
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Electronize speed controllers
… am interested to see this. I have a second hand Southampton tug that had a burnt out PCB, so i replaced it with a normal ESC and receiver also changed the battery and it works fine. Martin555.
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Cargo carrying under sail
… ner De Gallant arrived in Queenborough from Colombia and Portugal and off loaded part of her cargo into the sailing barge Dawn who then delivered it to Sittingbourne and Faversham. The goods, mainly small items like honey, wine, olive oil, …
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Electronize speed controllers
I designed the Southampton Tug mod this afternoon. Assuming that you have a boat with a single speed control and 2 props, reverse manouvering is likely to be poor. Such is the case with the Tug. the wind is dominant in reverse. As I said ea …
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Electronize speed controllers
… t them made at reasonable prices. Watch for the Southampton Tug mod coming up. I'm keen on this one. It will add a lot at dirt cheap prices and easy to make too.
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Electronize speed controllers
… t me on track for a big and cheap mod to my new Southampton tug. I have problems buying these logic level FETs as I use CPC whose range of 160 devices is slanted to higher voltages. Any supplier suggestions for hobbyists? I looked at a coup …
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Richardson/Southampton Smoke Generator
I am putting the tyres onto the tug now... A fiddly job. I intend to do an few changes to improver the manoeuvrability in reverse. A gent on YouTube did this by scrapping the engine control and fitting 2 ESC units and new supplementary rece …
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Richardson/Southampton Smoke Generator
Hello: My Hobby Engine Richardson tugboat is a “premium” model with a factory-installed smoke system. Unfortunately, the instruction manual has no information whatsoever about the smoke system; not a single word. With a lot of generously gi …
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Simple Smoke Generator
… rate just a gentle waft of smoke suitable for a funnel on a tug or a quick pulse of thick smoke possibly suitable to simulate gunfire on a destroyer. For my Crash Tender I mix pulsed smoke with water using a venturi type connector and then …
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Electronize speed controllers
… good buy - until it breaks. I have even ordered one for the tug - see later. Making my own is a learning exercise and I will use it to replace the servo controlled resistive speed setting device in that original boat, that I have just retur …
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Electronize speed controllers
… plessly downstream. That is one reason I have just bought a tug.... " When I purchase an ESC I look closely at the specs; max volts and amps OK, but then also I look at the Low volts function. I look for one that limits the motor current bu …
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Electronize speed controllers
… I have just managed to obtain a circuit for the Southampton tug from the very friendly manufacturer. Their H bridge uses the older bipolar transistor, not the MOSFET. The difference is total, but from our point of view, the MOSFET needs les …
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Electronize speed controllers
… plessly downstream. That is one reason I have just bought a tug....
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Richardson/Southampton Smoke Generator
Hi: Bear with me; I can’t see very well. I have the tug with the smoker. There’s no way to unplug the smoker or turn it off as supplied. You can disable it by cutting the two wires that power the smoke blower motor & the two that power the …
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Scratch built boats
… 20, I only built one from a kit. It was the Dumas Brooklyn Tug which came with a plastic molded hull in two halves. Although it is a nice kit, I just didn't get the satisfaction I get from scratch building. Best part about my scratch build …
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Very nearly two Fleet Admirals.
… ed some (lots)of filler . Will post some pictures of paddle tug. Cheers Marky
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Very nearly two Fleet Admirals.
… he last time, the skipper decided to take her out without a tug, clipped a jetty but nobody complained. I was only a kid but remember it as both my parents were in dress uniform for the big send off, I'll have to ask mum if she has any phot …
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Video Cameras for boat mount?
… . Lately considering getting into this by mounting one on a tug. I have looked at a number of cameras on-line, but I remain confused. Can anyone suggest an inexpensive camera to get me started. Joe
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Reminder for Local Clubs
Hi Rick, Just realised, you bought a TID tug recently which I commented on. I thin that was a very good choice for a boat to restore. Will look forward to seeing her on the lake when you have her going. What is this second one you are acqui …
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Schottel drives or Kort Nozzle
… old position against an oil rig. Water Tractors (Modern day tugs) use them and they can almost turn on its own centre. A steerable Kort nozzle will only move about 60 Degrees when being driven by a propeller. So I suggest you chat with some …
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Grain of Rice Build Challenge!
… an be any kind of model boat! Although, I do prefer a model Tug! What say Martin? Cheers, Ed
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Grain of Rice Build Challenge!
Hi Ed, Sorry it is not a tug but will this do ? Complete with two grain's of Rice. Martin555.
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SEA COMANDER RE-FURB.
… o a friend today who has several meter plus boats including tugs etc each having substantial lead ballast. I had not considered that so comments appreciated.
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Bought !
… n unlucky number. Good history at this link http://www.steamtugbrent.org/history-of-tid-class-tugs.html It makes a lovely model tug and i will have to build one some day.
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Bought !
… id-172 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TID_172_(tugboat,_1946) No mention of her ever being named Ipswich! Poetic license on the part of the modeller Happy tugging Cheers, Doug
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SEA COMANDER RE-FURB.
Thinking back, I had similar problems with my big tug last year, and no one else was on 40mhz that day but boat kept turning and reversing all on its own whilst I was trying to set a straight course at medium forward throttle. Cheers Colin.
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Catching up
… now and as a bonus my wife Liz got me the book Scale Model Tugs by Tom Gorman. Glad to be back cheers Mark