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Kirklees MBC open day 2019
Hi Rooky. Did you purchase the £150 Tug ? Martin555.
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Night Watch
… his Man Cave to recuperate from the unfortunate Ocean Going Tug debacle. You win some - you lose some! I fear Congress, SWMBO Commitee, will delete the program from his Western Command budget though! So it looks like you have the deck Middy …
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Fast attack craft
True but modified for your helium it will stop your Tug from sinking LOL! Martin555.
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Fast attack craft
Hadn't thoughta that! Use the tug as a Gondola, it would end up like a WW1 Zeppelin .. sort of
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Fast attack craft
Doug, You could spray the Tug grey and attach the airship to it. Then then you are lakeside you can tell everyone that it is a WWII thing LOL! Martin555.
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Fast attack craft
… idea Especially as I also need helium for my Airship!! The tug may just end up as a pipe-dream Cheers, Doug
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Fast attack craft
Hi Doug. You must show me the Tug that you have been fiddling with, I am very interested, Martin555.
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Fast attack craft
… mall. I've been fiddlin with a 22x6.3cm (8.66x2.5") Harbour tug. Have (or had?) the RX, motor and servo sorted, now trying to figure out the battery. Would like to use a little 1S LiPo but that means using up my one and only Deltang micro R …
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Night Watch
… mmodore Figtree is still hanging around somewhere (perusing tug model catalogues in the Wardroom I expect), and Lt. Marky has retired to the CO's Day Cabin, absorbing his medicinal Wee Dram. WO Rooky is probably in the Gun Room CPO Cash is …
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Night Watch
… sing the Shake-down and provisioning for the Squadron's new tug. I'll be keeping a sharp eye out for inordinate quantities of Pizza and Bourbon on the Requisition Chits! Have a quiet night Admiral going ashore. G'night All
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Night Watch
CPO Hargett reporting. New fleet tug Taucher has passed sea trials and is berthed with other Western Fleet vessels and the staff Studebaker. No problems here with the Hurricane this far north, however, HQ was invaded by daughters sleepover …
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Night Watch
… Supply Fleet! * Progress on our new, almost complete, Fleet Tug 'Taucher Wulf' has, understandably, been delayed due to hurricane Dorian. Update from CPO Cash Texas Navy ASAP. END OF BULLETIN. Signed: Doug, Fleet Admiral and Senior Nutter
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Work with Balsa wood
… 964 is decked in 3/8"x1/8" balsa over 1/4" frames. My 4' 6" tug built in the 1970's has its Hull and decks in balsa, decks 3/16" thick planks. And the Hull is 1/4" thick x 1/2" wide planks. Then my grandfather's tug built in the early 1950' …
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Work with Balsa wood
… requiring extensive bending, like the transom of the Beaver tug, are required to be cut across the grain. ................ I remember back to the dawn of time, when there were still beam engines pumping water, the summers were blazing, the …
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Hints on Ballast
… is a doddle, just move the SLA(s) fore or aft to suit. That tug with 20kg ballast must be huge I've seen huge (>2m!) models of container ships and tankers etc over here, which use car batteries for power thus reducing the need for dead ball …
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Hints on Ballast
My large model tug requires almost 20kg ballast. I use lead scrap, melted and poured into cube-shape plaster of Paris moulds of about 4kg size. Before the lead sets I insert a small lop of stainless cable to form a handle. These lead cubes …
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… facilities. Would be nice to see a few fishing boats - more tugs - Cabin Cruisers etc etc.
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… chnical description of the reason water sticks to surfaces. Tugs usually have heavy ballast and are more likely to have waves breaking over them than to ride up and over them. And sealing a deck effectively is going to depend very much on t …
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… losses since then. Problem occurred when kitting a "Sunny" tug for my grandson (MB magazine A3plan) have had to extensively redesign due to that having a removable deck. Tugs are notorious for being wet boats since they have very little fr …
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… ost all of my treasured possessions.....Including a Hobbies Tug kit with mighty midget motor etc , a Basset Lowke ally hulled cabin cruiser powered by a Taycol Star and for a final insult boxed Dinkys given to her kids to play with in the s …
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What connector to use?
… car points hooked to a servo for the 450 motor in the first tug I built (just on-off). You could use a similar system (tandem operated +- contacts) to switch on your power by TX and forget about plugs. Copper contacts on the cabin could be …
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EeZeBilts From Keil Kraft
… f his own, and he is also leaning to control my large scale tugs. I'm sure if we persevere he'll be a fine modeller of the future. Cheers Colin.
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Transport System for model boats
… , it also has a small winch so that he can lower his small Tug in to the water and retrieve it. Martin.
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Magnetic motors
… a. If you do find one, I will order a couple of 40mm for my tug and a further on for my trawler. As to the Magnetic Motors, for me its about space in the model to fit enough generation capacity to meet the full load requirements. Assuming t …
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Boat retrieval
… ships with a steel plate on the foredeck and my Southampton tug with a crane and electro or neodymium magnet on the end. Several years ago I modified one of the minesweeping cranes on the stern of my destroyer with a winch and a grappling h …
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Motor reversing
… ansmitters plus the 40Meg job that came with my Southampton tug. Southampton is being converted to 2.4Gig leaving that TX free for my subs Cheers, Doug http://www.theassociationofmodelsubmariners.com/t83-openlrs-and-2-4-ghz-and-submarines B …
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Help identifying this model boat
More likely Portugal Saudações, Doug BTW: madeira means 'wood'!
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Pond Weed
… l varied. I just have five, soon to be six scale boats, two tugs, trawler, MTB and a Hydrographers survey ship. The latest is a 31 ft Huntsman, that will become the tender to the Hydrographers boat at 1/48. You know, I think all modellers s …