Hello guys.
Just wanted to post this. because i am brutally board.
Here it is
I have been waiting for it for a while. It is a micro COD ( Canadian one design). It is 11 inches long and made from 1/16th and 1/64th inch ply.
Laser cut by Osbornmodelkits.com Also my sponsor. This was the secon boat cut. The kit went together very very smoothly.
i am very happy with it . Derek ( owner of osbornmodelkits.com) made the same one. I am doing him the hardware for his and we are going to make them both that same performance wise so they are competitive.
You will see a brushless motor in there But that is just the mock up motor. i have a stock 280 to go into it . Just a small fun boat and great for promos.
I am running a 7.4lipo 1600 Mah with a gws servo. airtronics receiver and a esc that i forget what its called at the moment.

Ok so i have a old CD player and i take it apart and what do i find !! a out runner Brushless motor for the CD driver
I take it apart and fashion my own mounting plate and do some electrical work. then i test it
It has a boat load of power( pun intended) like mad !!!
I'm going to make a couple and run therm in boats to see how effective they work.
I am going to make a micro with twin brushless and i'm going to use these CD motors.

Here is the semi finished product.
I have to add the hardware and what not and do a heavy clear coat. and then it will be ready to hit the water

I like it alot. Very cool. I am a micro lover.

what do you think of my CD motor ?

very ingenuitive. Maybe a hard drive motor would work also?

No i looked at them .
well the one i had any way. It was a brushed motor.

Look on ebay for the old seagate cheeta 10k scsi drive. They are more than likley brushless. You can grab one for under 20 bux.

nice, the framing and well........everything looks top notch.

Ive got a broken cd player laying around here somewhere.

They are to slow. This one is about 30,000 RPM
and i have about 6 or7 drives so i don't need to find more


thanks

So let me get this straight... all cd players have an out runner Brushless motor in them, or were you just lucky and most are brushed motors that turn the cd? Thats awesome how you discovered that, nice boat too, I like it a lot.

I knew about the bushless motor for having had them several times. and taking the CD drives apart.
They are only good in certain applications.
all the news cd drives are brushless. from about 1994 on are all brushless

i like it alot. small, where do you plan on running it?

ponds lakes. pools any where

That sounds pretty cool. I'll take apart my old cd player since I have a newer one I bought (its not that old but its broken) this weekend and tinker with it. I'll see what I can come up with / do with that motor. Thanks for your help.

any way lets get back on topic with my boat

so how long honestly do think that takes to build, I'd possible be interested, why not

took me one night to assemble the frame and then about 2 hour to put on the skin.
the only time is the drying time and if you have a fast cure CA then your good.
after you coat it with selaer and then i JB welded all the important parts to secure them

What are you using for an ESC?

don't know yet. I have to hit the bridged when summer comes
i'm thinking a E flite airplane esc though

Since the boat is so small I am sure you could get away with using a Mama 25 esc.

Oh i know. But thats a brushless esc. And i'm running a 280 brushed.
I used the mamba motor simply for the mock up to get every thing in place.

I thought you were using a brushless CD motor.

i am. but that is for experimenting only.