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Ernie: Unfortunately, the only US source, Don Ginther of RC Ballasts, finally retired and no one else is making bulbs commercially right now. He...
Ernie: Then I would take some lead shavings (I save the "dust" when shaping a bulb - for both environmental reasons and to mix up as filler to...
Ernie: I would use JB Weld from the local hardware, auto or big box store rather than epoxy if you have to bond lead to lead. The JB Weld has...
There is a guy in HK that is making glider cases in the style of camera cases with foam cube that you can cut to fit....
Lester: First let me thank your for your website. It has been a great help as I have explored the hobby. It is always good to read a...
Claudio: Have you tried vacuum bagging rather than using the press?
Gilbert: I too make my own keel fins for my US1m's using a process described in an article by Eric Rosenbaum in the American Model Yachting...
Marc: I read in one of your posts a year or so old now that you were going to make a Goth IOM from a female mold. How did that turn out? Any...
Thanks, Mike. I think he is going to be using his DX6l, but I will tell him what you said to do.
Spade: Thanks for the insight. Last year, I built a very light, hard chined, thin ply US1M with a 3 lb (1350 g) rather than the customary...
The wax acts to fill the microscopic scratches in the mold surface that you cannot see, so the more you can make the mold shine before waxing, the...
Dick: The US1M allows just about anything for a rudder as long as it is less than 14.25" below the hull (one rudder only, however) so a winged...
One of the guys at our weekly fun boat sail session brought out his new Ready Set Seawind yesterday. It has exactly the same issues that Sailrt...
I am still considering exactly what shape to make the bottom edge of the rudder. Can't remember where I read it, but the author asserted that...
I have been using Eric's method ever since I saw it in Model Yachting in his RG65 article. I had a few missteps, but now have the technique down...
Graham Bantock of Sailsetc sells fins and rudders that he has developed with the help of some high powered designers, but according to what I have...
Claudio: I agree with the rudder at about 10%, but why do you say to keep the fin at 7.5% when Bantock had success with a 9% fin at low speed?...
Thank you both for the replies. I will have the fin and rudder areas as well as the locations from the designer (a respected IOM designer - can't...
I posted this on "that other forum site" and didn't get much in the way of responses, so I am trying here: Fairly soon I will be building a...
FoamCrusher here.....located in Elk Grove, CA, about 20 minutes south of Sacramento CA. I started flying RC airplanes in 2002, teaching myself...