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Originally Posted by wcb1863
Any chance that you have a list (even tentative) of those parts or components that you don't provide in the kit, necessary to complete the Gato conversion. For example: stainless wire (total length and size) for rudder and dive planes, servos type and number, battery, speed controller, couplers, etc. Would save many trips to the hobby shop.
Thanks,
Walter B.
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OK, Walter, here's the basic list of items you'll have to find for yourself to outfit the GATO SubDriver. Some of these items go into the SubDriver and some are there to interface it with the 1/72 Revell GATO kit.
1. R/C System - either the WFLY FT06-C six channel transmitter/receiver set, or the Polk's Hobbies Tracker-3/Seeker-6 transmitter/receiver set. Both of these products listed in the Caswell catalog.
2. Electronic Speed Controller - the Mtronics Viper Sub 10, also available from Caswell. This high performance ESC also features a very robust BEC which supplies current to all electronic devices aboard the SubDriver.
3. Angle Keeper - We recommend the SubTech APC-4, available from SubTech (but be on the lookout, soon Caswell will carry their own angle keeper).
4. Fail-Safe - This device will automatically blow the ballast tank in the event of a loss of r/c signal -- a must-have device aboard r/c submarines! Again, your source of supply here is SubTech.
5. Servos - You'll need at least four mini-servos. I recommend the blue little monsters from Caswell -- very powerful units and the cheapest you'll find anywhere on this planet!
6. Power Switch - I recommend a small sized double-pole, double-throw toggle rated for at least 20 Ampere's equipped with a watertight boot. The boot will permit you to operate the toggle without getting any water into it. Check your local electronic supply houses for this item.
7. Propulsion/Control System Battery - Any 7.2 Volt battery sized to fit r/c cars will do, be it of the Nickel Metal Hydride, Nickel Cadmium, or Lithium Polymer type. Just insure that you also secure a compatible battery charger. I recommend a battery of at least 3000 mAh capacity.
8. Propel - this is also known as 'air brush propellant'. Available through Caswell or your local hobby shop.
10. Pushrod and Torque Tube stock - about three feet of 3/32" aluminum tube (bow plane retract mechanism torque tube), three feet of 1/8" aluminum tube (bow plane pushrod) and two feet of 1/16" brass rod (rudder and stern plane push rod). You'll also need a snap type of clevis for the rudder bell crank, four servo/pushrod collars, and four Du-Bro cup-ball unions to make up the SubDriver pushrods to the boat pushrods.
That's most of the hardware you'll need to outfit your boat with the SubDriver.
David D Merriman lll