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Today the stanchions all got cleaned up, re-drilled & painted with a couple of coats of primer & 4 topcoats of Antique White.
The rudder repairs also got finished and the rudder is now Gloss Black to match the keel & underwater area.
The final assembly can now start tomorrow.
With another chilly day outside a fair bit got done to the Mt Gay 30 today.
The rudder has been fibreglassed, ready to sand & paint tomorrow.
Most of the stanchions have now been cleaned up and temporarily fitted today, this involved re drilling all the deck holes (well cleaning them with the Dremel with a router bit) as the new deck mounting timber inside the hull was now part way under each of the holes. Anyway, all fitted now with just 2 more holes required in the new deck timbers at the stern.
The safety rail holes all needed drilling out in the stanchions and most of the paint has now been cleaned off. Should be ready to re spray tomorrow morning.
Also most of the electronics have been reinstalled as well as the under deck sheet tubes.
Even the Badger II name is back on the stern. Lettering is not quite the same as original but close enough.
It was another inside day again today so after walking the dog (before the bad weather returned) it was time to sand & finish off the display stand (just needs a couple of coats of epoxy now) & cut & polish the hull ready for reassembly
Quite pleased with the result after a very light cut & a coat of polish will add the final shine once all the rest is assembled.
Also got the sliding hatch cover re-glued to the recently repainted cabin. Real pleased with the way the Antique White came out, really suits it against the polished deck & black trim.
Definitely worth the extra cost to get the colour matched to the original finish on “Badger II”.
Also got the cabin door clear screen refitted & sealed into place ( opted for a diamond pattern glass rather than the plain clear glass – just because I had some)
The rudder has been sanded down ready for a very thin layer of fibreglass mat either side, which hopefully will stop the rudder from splitting all the time with the slightest bump.
Hopefully tomorrow the rudder will be done & then to start on cleaning up & painting all the deck hardware, rails etc. Might even get the waterline pinstriping & the stern labelling done as well.
Chris, you should be able to get replacement 3 pos’n switches from Jaycar or Active Electronics.
About the only local shops to stock servos are McCann’s Model World or Nick’s Hobby Shop but they may only have the 9gm servos & not the 5gm ones.
Yes, well actually I told a little fib so those that missed out on flying today wouldn’t feel so bad.
As you will see in the videos, brilliant warm sunshine most of the morning & down to Tee shirts, shorts & thongs for the BBQ.
A bit more done today on the road to final completion, got the display/storage stand built today. Still needs a bit of finishing off and a coat of epoxy but at least the majority of it is done & it’s now usable.
Today the paintwork on the hull/deck join was sanded back as the finish was not up to scratch. This time after carefully masking the underside of the deck “Rub Rail” paint was reapplied using the Airbrush rather than my smallest automotive spray gun. This time I’m happy with the finish so a quick cut’n’polish tomorrow & then the stanchion work can start. Will no doubt take a while to clean them all up before repainting.
Must remember to paint the rudder as well as it got missed when painting the keel & underwater area.
By the way Uncle G, I found another of those 30 Mt Gay’s that was brought into Tas way back in the 80’s. I was out at Brian J’s (ex MMACA President) today and he also has a partially completed Mt Gay sitting on his work bench. Reckons he might get back to it one day !
So that is one for me, one for Ricky, 2 for RonB and one for BrianJ and Alan F’s “Little Honda” (that he used to beat the pants off us with @ the canal in the early days of us sailing the “Chinese” RC yachts), but the last time I saw that was at his funeral. Still leaves 24 more out there somewhere.
We seem to be getting a few more boats with NO sail numbers which makes it difficult for the scorers.
If you require to locally source vinyl cut sail numbers then I can supply them at relatively short notice at a reasonable price. Usually supplied black but I can also supply some other colours as well.
DF65 sail numbers – 4 sets of two or three digits & two DF65 logo’s $15.00 per set (This is enough for one Jib & one Mainsail only)
RG65 sail numbers – 4 sets of two or three digits & two RG65 logo’s $15.00 per set
DF95 sail numbers – 4 sets of two or three digits & two DF95 logo’s $20.00 per set
I can be contacted via email here
Mike
Gee, its 4 years since I started the refit on the Scale model Archer 6.5M Offshore.
All the upgrade bits have been laying around gathering dust for a long time so I guess this will be the next cab off the rank after the “Badger II” (Mt Gay 30) is finished.
At this rate I’ll be dead & buried before I get back to the half finished A Class Wizzle Wozzle. My how time does fly.
Looking back it in now 14 months since I painted the hull of the Mt Gay and the poor thing has been sitting on the workbench ever since.
Tomorrow it will be time to start again, just need to tidy up a bit of paint trim & cut and polish the hull then final assembly can start. Need to sand & respray all the stanchions then install new safety lines all round but other than that there is not really a lot to do. We have a few days of no flying weather coming up so hopefully it should be finished by the weekend !! (which weekend – well that’s another story.
Don’t you just love it when rules are made up/changed on the fly.
Always makes for an interesting day.
Uncle G, you will be pleased to know that there was NOTHING wrong with the iNav flight controller in the Raptor.
I know I was a bit under the weather (what with a bad headcold & the several lots of medication-mixed with a beer or two) when I assembled it earlier last week but in-depth checking today showed I was far worse than I thought.
Interestingly enough on the first flight and in servo trim mode the Raptor flew almost perfectly, it was only the second flight when I deployed the flaps on takeoff did it play up a bit.
Turned out I had the Left Aileron connected correctly but the Right Aileron output was connected to the Left Flap, the Flaps output was connected to the Right Flap correctly but also the Right Aileron.
So it ended up that the Flap Switch operated both the Control Surfaces on the Right Wing and the Aileron operated both Control Surfaces on the Left Wing, luckily they both went in the same direction. The iNav system obviously made sense of it as she flew fine till I used the flaps.
Moral of the story is don’t try and assemble complex machinery when even slightly under the weather.
I’ve left the cold meds alone today AND relabelled all the connections correctly so after a controller reset and a quick repair of the Rudder she should be ready to take to the air again.
I need to practice what I preach and actually check correct operation of ALL control surfaces before flight, not just wriggle the sticks. Lesson learnt (hopefully).
Funny thing is I’ve NEVER seen a “RED” RunCam2, plenty of orange ones & even a few black ones but NEVER red.
A Colour-blind Safety Officer is just not on so I have to agree with Uncle G that e need a new one.
As for WiFi connections being lost, we won’t even go there as old DJI quads are about the only flying thing these days that use WiFi !!
Well Uncle G, while the Frog was wrongly picking on you he missed most of my oops moments yesterday (and there were a few) so at least some good came from it.
As for his statement about damaged cars, this was also grossly incorrect. Not only was Chris’s Tesla scarred for life, if you watch the Slo-Mo video you will clearly see that the RunCam 2, ejected from the “Black Bitch” of Bad Angel, collided heavily with the passengers side door of my Outback leaving a massive dent. Shame, Shame, Shame.
Footnote: well the dent is massive if 1) you know where to look and 2) if you use a magnifying glass !!
