Some battle damage
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If you've ever wondered why I used 1/8" aluminum plate to armor my hull, wonder no more
Some of you here may know I like to take my jet boat out on rapids. Today I got just plain nasty with her, it was a blast. I dont think I've had this much fun with a model anything until today. I havent run rapids with this boat since it had a 540 motor with 6 cells. Now that I'm running a 700sc on 16 cells, the thing is completely nuts. Probably the closest thing to running full scale jet sprint boats. I'll also add the water was between 0-3" deep, flipped her a few times, but she self-righted.
Anyway I thought I'd share what a common day on the stream does to the paint job. I probably should just stop painting the bottom.
I gotta say there's nothing like ripping up 75ft of staggered rapids at 25mph and then coming back down +10mph or so. I did switch out my shafts first since I tend to bash my impeller up pretty good. I did in fact take a hunk out of blade but I can fix it, it's my river running impeller anyway.
Oh yeah and I will be filming this soon, I want to use my new camera and I had to order something for it today, so should have a video up in a week. in 640x480 res.
no more grainy videos
Some of you here may know I like to take my jet boat out on rapids. Today I got just plain nasty with her, it was a blast. I dont think I've had this much fun with a model anything until today. I havent run rapids with this boat since it had a 540 motor with 6 cells. Now that I'm running a 700sc on 16 cells, the thing is completely nuts. Probably the closest thing to running full scale jet sprint boats. I'll also add the water was between 0-3" deep, flipped her a few times, but she self-righted.
Anyway I thought I'd share what a common day on the stream does to the paint job. I probably should just stop painting the bottom.
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Oh yeah and I will be filming this soon, I want to use my new camera and I had to order something for it today, so should have a video up in a week. in 640x480 res.
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oh thats nothing. wait till you race a boat. hehe
but no is that aluminum or ABS ?
oh thats nothing. wait till you race a boat. hehe
but no is that aluminum or ABS ?
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I kinda wish I had more aluminum plate up by the bow, gouged it pretty good. She'll live, the hardest part is repairing the impeller. I use masking tape to sort of mold a new blade from epoxy, holds up pretty well, this will be the first repair to the repair since last summer.
me so confused, Mr. Shaw, do you have amnesia?
me so confused, Mr. Shaw, do you have amnesia?
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ORIGINAL: saleens7
its aluminum...read the post
ORIGINAL: Taylor Shaw
oh thats nothing. wait till you race a boat. hehe
but no is that aluminum or ABS ?
oh thats nothing. wait till you race a boat. hehe
but no is that aluminum or ABS ?
me so confused, Mr. Shaw, do you have amnesia?