stubaz

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It's OK Noah. I've just been long distance to the seller and he told me they were his first pictures he took when he bought the boat. I'm 110% he's genuine he's told me the box the new Zenoah (non clone) has the clone in it and Zenoah is moulded into the new motor. He's included the old engine Flex shaft, dog and everything associated with the old one and the new one is a 100% G260PUM.
Part no is GR26020. For Boats.Made in Japan. And he's thrown in the old servos and heaps of other bits. I trust him because he told me to read the shipping invoice. It was $105 more than I paid because we live in the bush. He won't even let me repay it.

So No I's not disgusted and I'm happy as Larry and he lives just nextdoor.
Thanks for all the help you guys have been and I've been taught there's a lot more good than bad wherever you go or I go actually.
Sorry about the worries, I should be ashamed of myself.

Kind regards Stu

I wonder if there's anything else I can whinge about. You'd miss me I know it. Like a toothache but I can't let you off that easy.

stubaz

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How long has RC boating been available. I remember as a boy my Dad was a keen model aircraft nut. Back in the days when everything was home made unless you had money. Dad used to spend months designing and building his own planes and I caught the bug. After several very expensive mishaps  about 20 years ago I gave up planes and just recently got introduced to RC boats. But the RC part of it, how long has it been available. I suppose it was the US it was first available in but way back we had either free flight or wire controlled. Split fingers and horribly expensive fuel. Actually the two didn't mix very well either. Bu tI rmeber those days of spending hours searching for a lost plane and one missing for a whole week which finally got retrieved from a back yard about 15 miles way. Then the one which smashed it's way straight through a young ladies bedroom window whilst being entertained. Poor Dad took a while to live that one down because he had to explain to Mum why he had to buy so much glass and putty. So does anyone know when it became available to the masses?

Stu

mfr02

I did see an article about a radio control yacht dated 1935, but that was back when commercial broadcast radios were still not universal.

stubaz

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Thank you mfr, You settled a time factor for us.I thoought it was about late 60s and my friend said ithe thought it was earlier.  Good old home office they are still working. I had to get my reciprocal ham licence through them and later my UK call G8SSM. RC sure has come a long way with us using 2.4ghz and up to 20 channels. Along way from relying on luck and the Gods.

thanks mate kind regards  Stu

mfr02

There was gear available well before the '70's, but it was very definitely aimed at the electronically savvy, rather than those who could make wood be the right shape.  No less a skill, but it was the taking of a technical mess and turning into a sort of Lego with batteries that enabled RC to reach the masses, or at least the section of the masses who wanted to play boats.  It was about the mid '80's when there was a sudden price drop in RC gear, probably a spin-off of the computer boom.

Rich404

Ok, so I gotta throw this one in...

The FIRST RC boat was sailed by Nikola Tesla back in the 1890's.... He held the transmitter while he sailed the boat in New York City.(I think it was at a pond around the old Madison Square garden) Onlookers thought it was magic...He let them take turns calling out responses like,left..right..straight andthe boat would do it totheir amazement.It wasn't until many years later that it was actually introduced as a hobby.

-Rich.

stubaz

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I love the Tesla trick. It would appear to be magic too wouldn't it. But then let's face it, what I'm using right now would have got me burnt at the stakesome time ago. What we take for granted today. I mean kids take calculators into class with them. It was a sliderule and pencil when I was at school. Today the checkout girls can't even work out how much change to give you. They are lost if they have to use their head to work it out.  know technogy makes lfe easy but it's made us so lazy.

I agree with the computer boom being responsible for so many things but when you consider man landed on the mon with less computing power than many household items we take for granted. But it proved that man can use what's available and use it to do amazing tasks. They can use RC gear from here to mars and operate a buggy to not only drive but take photos, analyse rocks and even drill the rock to start with plus send all that data back to earth via it's mothership. Technology fascinates me and always has and I reckon it was only because I was sitting up alongside my Dad while he was repairing a modern (back then modern) open reel tape recorder and he slipped with his screwdriver and both of us were thrown about 6 feet backward into a wall. He reckoned I'd never touch anything electrical gear again and boy wasn't he wrong. Since then I've had 25 to 30,000 volts throw me across a room and after sitting there for a while got up and back into whatever zapped me. Luckily today it's more like +,- 5 or 12 volts dc. Probably my next  "boot"  will be used across my chest.

stubaz

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sorry double posted woops.

boatnut

 My first RC airplane , was with a homebuilt tx & rx. Used a pulse system and rubber band
powered escapments  no proportional , just full or neutral. This was in the mid 1950s.
 I agree about  kids today , I gave a , checkout counter girl, at a fast food place
the extra change to make it an even dollar amount, after she had rung it up on the register,
she could not figure out what to give me back. No head for figures, unless it's the cool
dude at the back.

Hydro Junkie

Actually, solid state components and integrated circuits in modern equipment runs at 0 and 2 volts in a normal circuit. That being said, you can find power circuits that run some serious voltage in small units. It all depends on the application of the electronic unit

stubaz

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Well they say it's the amps that really get you but I've got some really nasty belts from a digital camera but it obviously involved the flash circuit. But I have had a few minor shocks from mundane type equipment when I wasn't expecting it. By far the  worse I've been hit with is RF. A real smartie bent a mobile 28mhz antenna towards my neck when I was standing near his car with my back to it. He fired up 100 watts of CW and it arced straight into my flesh. Apart from the initial shock it burnt for weeks after. his antenna didn't look too good with a knot tied in it. Fibreglass doesn't bend to easily normally but his antenna sure had a number of bends in it Never drink and drive a set of finals.

regards Stu

stubaz

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Wow, rubber bands and pulses. That would get the newbies who think RC built itself scratching their heads. That's the problem 99% of users don't know or care how things work. they just complain when it doesn't then moan louder when they get the repair bill or more likely the bill for a new one.

Stu

mfr02

Volts jolts, mils kills, in this case, mils = milliamps.  The flash unit on pre-LED cameras discharge a few thousand volts into the tube, fortunately without a lot of sustained power behind it.