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vtsteam:
Or just wire three pieces of coat hanger or other stiff wire together with some thin copper wire and bend them to shape. A little solder or epoxy at the joint to hold it permanently......and you can make it any size you want. And/or shape. If you go the solder route, you can even weight it if you want and get rid of the sinker.
Actually, I use steel nuts as sinkers here in Vermont. Lead sinkers are illegal, so skip the solder.
BTW even a small largemouth bass can swallow a hook that would choke many big saltwater fish.
ddmckee54:
I've got some uncoated 1/16" brass brazing rod sitting on the shelf - somewhere. That should do nicely.
The parts have started arriving. I got the motor and the prop shaft earlier, and last night I got the ESC. I got the motor installed, and the shaft fitted ready for installation. The connector was a 3mm x 3mm, I needed a 3mm x 1/8". It was a solid coupler anyway, so I've got a Huco U-joint ordered. The ESC had NO connectors, so now I've got to source some connectors, get them ordered, and installed. The prop shaft came with a useless, too small, 2 blade prop - which I knew about. So I ordered a 3 blade in the size I wanted. The 3 blade prop is apparently on a different slow boat from China.
I've got to find my 3mm brass rod and my 4mm brass tubing, they're stashed SOMEWHERE. I can get the rudder installed when I find them. When that's done all the holes in the boat should be plugged. Then it'll be weight and balance time? (And checking to see if all the holes in the boat ARE plugged.)
Don
vtsteam:
--- Quote from: ddmckee54 on May 04, 2022, 12:04:47 PM ---I've got to find my 3mm brass rod and my 4mm brass tubing, they're stashed SOMEWHERE.
--- End quote ---
So familiar!
ddmckee54:
My seagull figurines showed up yesterday. When I ordered them there were 3 poses of bird in the ad, so naturally I ASSUMED I'd get one of all 3 poses.... Not so much, I got 3 copies of the same pose. Oh well, I can work with it. I had to try it out to see if the birds were about the right scale.
Whatcha think, I think it looks about right. They're resin, so they'll be fairly easy to modify into a sitting down bird and get rid of the pilings.
tom osselton:
Those should look good on it. Maybe contact them and say WTF and get all three.
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