Anyone tell me what boat this is?
02-14-2012, 09:33 PM
#1
Anyone tell me what boat this is?
Hello everyone I have been looking around the web and saw this place and it seems like all of you have a lot of knowledge when it comes to rc boating and since I am just getting back into this I thought I would post up.
I got this boat about 20 years ago (I was like 8) I guess this is giving away my age right off the bat. Anyways I got this boat and I do not have any clue who made it. It was bought brand new. Maybe you guys can tell by some pics?
It has older Airtronics servos and a mechanical speed control. it also had a 27 turn motor. I took that out a few days ago and installed the 20 turn stinger that is in the pics.
I lost the prop a while ago and had to adapt a proboat prop on. Maybe if someone knew which prop would fit a bit better and where to get a proper prop nut?
I would like to change to a brushless esc and motor with water cooling but I am wondering what setup would work best to give me the most speed. I am kinda tinkering with this one for a while and then will eventually get a better platform and use this as a recovery boat
I got this boat about 20 years ago (I was like 8) I guess this is giving away my age right off the bat. Anyways I got this boat and I do not have any clue who made it. It was bought brand new. Maybe you guys can tell by some pics?
It has older Airtronics servos and a mechanical speed control. it also had a 27 turn motor. I took that out a few days ago and installed the 20 turn stinger that is in the pics.
I lost the prop a while ago and had to adapt a proboat prop on. Maybe if someone knew which prop would fit a bit better and where to get a proper prop nut?
I would like to change to a brushless esc and motor with water cooling but I am wondering what setup would work best to give me the most speed. I am kinda tinkering with this one for a while and then will eventually get a better platform and use this as a recovery boat
02-24-2012, 06:24 PM
#8
Well just thought I would post an update.
Hull got a good cleaning!
I gutted the hull since it wasn't near fast enough for my liking and put a motor plate over the mount and ordered a mount from a proboat impulse 26. Then I am mounting a Traxxas Velineon system in (waiting for it to show up) start with the Ni batteries I have and move to a 3s lipo power. Other then that I have been working on balancing out the rest of the boat weight wise. Going to have to make a couple new holes for water cooling as well. Just having fun!
After that depending on how it handles I will put some sort of paint and new decals on it (old decals were from 1992 LOL)
Figured I would have fun with this until I get a new hull to play with and use this as my retrieval boat.
Hull got a good cleaning!
I gutted the hull since it wasn't near fast enough for my liking and put a motor plate over the mount and ordered a mount from a proboat impulse 26. Then I am mounting a Traxxas Velineon system in (waiting for it to show up) start with the Ni batteries I have and move to a 3s lipo power. Other then that I have been working on balancing out the rest of the boat weight wise. Going to have to make a couple new holes for water cooling as well. Just having fun!
After that depending on how it handles I will put some sort of paint and new decals on it (old decals were from 1992 LOL)
Figured I would have fun with this until I get a new hull to play with and use this as my retrieval boat.
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