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Originally Posted by wcb1863
David,
My wife says that I can have only one submarine in my life. You do use the "steadying" tool on the DVD but do not show how it was made or its dimensions. i just ordered a drill press for the dremel (MB540 VERTICAL DRILL STAND) from Model Expo. With some modifications it might work as a platform for the radical cut I am dreading. In any event it should work for other drilling jobs.
What the devil is an angle keeper? Six channels? 1-Speed, 2&3- Bow planes, 4-Rudder, 5- Rudder, 6-  ?Angle keeper
I ordered the new rudder from Revell on their web site under services. Will be most interesting to see how long it takes, my guress is four weeks minimum. That's "www.revell.com" Tab "Service and Support" and then select "Need Parts?".
Best,
Walter |
Walter,
LOL. I too live under a rule of abject terror as administered by, 'she who must be obeyed!'. So, let's make that one submarine of yours count!
As to the dimensions of the 'sliding router': Just take your moto-tool in hand, measure off two pieces of board of appropriate length (look at the DVD again -- you do have a freeze-frame function on it, don't you?!), mount them together at a right angle, glue #100 sandpaper to the crutch formed between them to keep the moto-tool from sliding around, equip one end of this assembly with a broad bed (that will ride the surface of your work table), secure the motor tool to the correct height on the thing with tie-tie fasteners, and you're good to go. God damn! Hard hard can that be??...
The angle keeper is an electronic device that hooks up in between port #6 of the receiver and the stern plane servo -- it artificially stabilizes the boat about the pitch axis when you're not working the stern plane stick/knob on the transmitter to effect pitch changes. Most of the time you will be driving the bow planes to maintain depth, so don't sweat the stern planes, most of the time their in 'auto' (the APC).
Get the Polk's Tracker-3 r/c system from Caswell and be done with it. All the functions you'll ever need in this life, pal. You only need six channels for this Revell GATO: 1. rudder, 2. bow plane, 3. throttle, 4. ballast system, 5. bow plane retract mechanism, 6. stern plane
Thanks for the info on getting parts from Revell. Let us know when you get them. Four weeks, my ass! Hope not. Let us know.
Now: Stop typing and get back to work! What the hell are you doing on the computer, anyway? Looking into the green-eyed electronic moster never got a model built!
Get out of here, go ... now! Into the shop with you!
... And that goes for the rest of you lurkers out there too!
David,