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madjackghengis:

--- Quote from: Bernd on October 01, 2009, 04:35:44 PM ---I already broke one wire after I shut the power off. :bang:

That's the one mod I'll need to make. Think I'll add a pulley and weight. More even tension that way.

Bernd

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Hi Bernd, I thought I'd see what you were up to, and I would weigh in with the pulley and weight, as it is even, and easily adjustable for exactness. I don't think you'll find anything that comes close to the reliability of the nichrome wire, I haven't worked with it in years, but decades ago there was nichrome, and then there were all the other wires that failed. All in all, sounds like a good idea, I've helped a few people rescue a "dead in the water" r/c boat, and it isn't always easy. :poke:

Bernd:

--- Quote from: madjackghengis on March 09, 2010, 10:20:05 AM ---I don't think you'll find anything that comes close to the reliability of the nichrome wire, I haven't worked with it in years, but decades ago there was nichrome, and then there were all the other wires that failed.

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I've read on some boat and airplane forums where they've used stainless steel or just plain wire to cut foam. So I don't know. I'll stick with the nichrome.

After I wrote up a how to build it I discovered how many there were out on the net with a much better desing than what I had built. Oh well.

--- Quote --- All in all, sounds like a good idea, I've helped a few people rescue a "dead in the water" r/c boat, and it isn't always easy. :poke:

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The wife doesn't like swimming in water when it's only 40 to 50 degress water temp. :( So I had to come up with something. Now I need to get back at it becasue in another month we'll be getting ready to open the cottage up at the Islands.

Bernd

madjackghengis:
Bernd, it's funny, my wife won't even consider diving in when the water at that temperature, no matter what I offer in return, either, do you think its something about us? She would stand on the bank and laugh at my attempts to rescue things myself though, and give me "the look", if I were to scowl back at her at that. All in all, looks like the project is coming along well, I hope the "wind power" works, but resorting to blades under water isn't so bad if it doesn't. If I didn't have so many projects already, living on a creek which always has water in it, and sometimes ten or twelve acres of my land in it as well, I ought to put together a boat project, one that doesn't involve a twelve foot aluminum boat, and a pole. In that one, the water moccasins were faster than I could pole, and they aren't afraid of people. :headbang: Mad Jack

dsquire:
Bernd

Seeing as its now the new boating season I was just wondering if you had an update for us? :lol:

Cheers :beer:

Don

Bernd:
Don,

I see your going though the projects and seeing who hasn't finished their work. :poke: :poke: :lol: :lol:

To make a long story very short, Nope I haven't worked on my boat at all. New developments. My Dad past away here back in early June so I've been comforting my mother. Plus have been working on the inside of the house to get the rooms done. The hobby has kind of taken a back seat for now. Even turned down some paying jobs because of time contraints.

Hope to get back into it sometime come the cold season. Also got a new outdoor toy I need to take a pick of and post. It's a great play thing.

Right now as I write this I'm up in the 1000 Islands on Saturday. Will be returning tonight for a memorial for dad given by my daughter Sunday.

So that's about they way it's been for this year. I need to get busy and finish some of those projects I've started before you :poke: to much and I have balck and blue spots all over me. :lol: :lol:

Bernd

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