Modular Concept for BSB
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What do you guys think. Just finished my second one and decided to put all of the controls in the engine tower and install water rudders to begin with and the capability to remove and install an air rudder if the water rudders dont work out. The engine is an OS 61 FX with a 12 x 6 Prop,;; radio, batteries, servos, switch and charging jack are all installed in the water tight box at the bottom of the engine tower, remove 4 screws and take it to the test bench to run the engine if I need to; just about to do that to break in and tune the engine. The hull is 100% completely sealed, hopefully it will not leak or worse yet sink; water rudders are .90 x 1.20 size Ernst with tilt up capability if I should hit anything, I mounted them on a mockup of the stern and fabricated the linkage and will use the mockup as a pattern to transfer the hole pattern to the stern of the boat; I am not sure about the diameter of the wire used for the linkage and may have to increase the diameter to 4-40.
Here are a couple of pictures. Any comments good or bad would be appreciated; hope it works.
Here are a couple of pictures. Any comments good or bad would be appreciated; hope it works.
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Sorry about the picture. The server would not accept the file size; I had to lower the resolution on my camera. Lets see if this works;
by the way the boat handles beautifully; ran it yesterday. Engine is still in the break in stage not sure if I was getting all of the speed out of it. Discovered that I get a lot more thrust using a K series MasterAirscrew. I set up some paper strips behind the boat and with a standard sport prop most of the prop wash was on the right side (looking at the rear of the boat) with the K series the prop wash was more evenly distributed on each side of the prop.
Lets see if these pictures will upload.
by the way the boat handles beautifully; ran it yesterday. Engine is still in the break in stage not sure if I was getting all of the speed out of it. Discovered that I get a lot more thrust using a K series MasterAirscrew. I set up some paper strips behind the boat and with a standard sport prop most of the prop wash was on the right side (looking at the rear of the boat) with the K series the prop wash was more evenly distributed on each side of the prop.
Lets see if these pictures will upload.



