Assembly Begins!! Part Seven - RC Hydroplane Kit Build

Assembly Begins!! Part Seven - RC Hydroplane Kit Build | The Center Section

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M5 Performance Hydroplanes - Scott Meyers

Жыл бұрын

You thought it would never happen, but here we begin assembling the center section of our Radio Controlled 1/8th Scale Model Hydroplane, The Eliminatorius Maximus!! Click "more" to read the rest...
Watch the whole build series here;
• Building a Radio Contr...
Need tools and parts to complete your build? Check out the links below to see many of the tools and supplies used in this video series. Disclaimer - as an Amazon Affiliate I earn a commission on stuff in these links. And by commission I mean pennies, but, yeah, well, it's something.
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Finnish plywood from Aircraft Spruce available here in metric sizes; www.aircraftspruce.com/catalo...
Domestic birch ply from BalsaUSA; shop.balsausa.com/category_s/...
Need to build your jig first? Watch this video and I'll show you how! • RC Hydroplane Construc...

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@DJ_Ee Жыл бұрын

O yes 🙌

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

Yessir, we serious now!

@merlinnicholes5649 Жыл бұрын

Another great video! I always watch it once before I start building and watch it as I'm going through the next step of the build. Keep up the good work!!!

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

Thanks Merlin, we'll get this thing done eventually. Sure is freaky when I see your pictures and it looks almost exactly like mine!

@beerpowered1 Жыл бұрын

This is the video I have wanted since I bought my kit.

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

This video is number seven in a series.... Check out my channel playlist and you can join the whole build in progress right now!

@beerpowered1 Жыл бұрын

@@M5PerfHydros I cannot wait for the deck sheeting video in the future. Thats why my kit is a unskinned frame still... I built it like a airplane with superglue. I'm probably going to start over after watching this. 1/6.66th Gas Scale Newton 158/ MHR 8700 Extreme Kit Go big or go home for my first wood boat. I also have questions on 1/6 gas driveshafts, square drives, adapters, props stuffing boxes engines ect. Thanks for all the help. I watch all your goofy video. Love it!

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

Already have you covered my man! Check out this video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNmBhc2DsMnDkac.html

@DSchig Жыл бұрын

... And the reason that model boat engine crankshafts rotate counter clockwise (looking at the flywheel/prop) is because the model boat engines were first based on model airplane engines. Model airplane engines rotate that way because most people are right handed, and it's much easier to flip the prop in a counter clockwise direction.

@terryperrott8567 Жыл бұрын

Another portion of a great build

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

Well we hope so. Never know until we hit the water!

@terryperrott8567 Жыл бұрын

@@M5PerfHydros that filler you use, is it recommend by Westley to use only with there epoxy

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

No, this can be used with any epoxy or resin. I do it all the time!

@eirianearth Жыл бұрын

True I used to work in "real" boats and boards; now just getting back to rc since kid times and notice I know f@ck all 😆 Love the build series

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

Yup!

@edwardjohnson3189 Жыл бұрын

I'd also like to see a video series on designing and building a cowling. That would be awesome

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

You're not the first to mention it. Do you have a particular boat/cowl in mind that you want to make?

@edwardjohnson3189 Жыл бұрын

@@M5PerfHydros yes. 1980 miss budweiser hydroplane u-12

@edwardjohnson3189 Жыл бұрын

It's very similar to the eliminator cowling

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

This one? It's already available here www.rcboatcompany.com/sg110c

@edwardjohnson3189 Жыл бұрын

@@M5PerfHydros not exactly. I think I goofed it's 1980 miss Budweiser u-1. The driver sits in front with an open cowling

@DSchig Жыл бұрын

Scott - Somewhere in this video (?) you mentioned that you're looking for source for 3/16" triangular bass wood sticks. I did a internet search and found none, so I made my own on my tablesaw, a 40 tooth finish plywood blade, and a 3/16" x 4" x 24" bass wood sheet (this is what I happend to have handy - but longer 36" and 48" long boards are available on-line) . I ripped the sheet (or board?) with the blade angled at 45 degrees, then adjusted the fence, then ripped it at 90 degrees, and repeated this (alternating) process untill the sheet was gone. This should save a little weight.

@DSchig Жыл бұрын

... and where the stick passes through the square holes in the bulkheads, use your razor saw to cut 1/2" or 1/4" pieces of the triangle stick, and add them to the square holes where the triangular stick passes through the holes in the bulkheads (two triangle shapes make a square).

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

Awesome! I guess now I need to buy a table saw. Like, subscribe, share, click the ads, buy something you don't need, and maybe, someday decades from now, I'll earn enough from all that stuff to buy a blade, and that's a start!

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

One thing... Don't fill the square hole, it's just a guide. Save the hassle and leave the opening for additional drainage. Dang man now I gotta build a whole new boat!

@DSchig Жыл бұрын

@@M5PerfHydros Please let me know when you plan to build your next R/C boat - I will cut and mail you a bunch of 3/16" triangular sticks for it. -Dave

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

Deal!

@kazenix87 Жыл бұрын

I know it's beyond the scope of this series, but I would love to have a walk through of how you make your cowlings from start to finish. You're always dropping the "I've got a mold for this", but I've had that itch in my brain wondering how that process goes from designing, to the blank, to making the master mold, then using the mold to make the final product.

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

Hmm, I think I could do that. Do you have a particular boat or cowl you'd like to mold?

@kazenix87 Жыл бұрын

@@M5PerfHydros To be honest, at this point I've no clue. I'm currently 75%~ish through building a zipkits mono (first build, and it'll be my first intro to racing boats). I'm still playing it by ear a bit, as I'm not sure what the turnout looks like for district 19 for the different classes. But if you've got a suggestion, I'm all ears. I appreciate you being so willing to share your ideas and processes. You're really making the hobby feel a lot more approachable to me. Prior to finding your videos, building a hydro of any kind seemed a daunting task.

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

Happy to help

@garyrose1300 Жыл бұрын

OMGosh Scott, I follow all of your great videos. I am unable to monetarily build a boat shop like yours. So I am living a dream through you. I am in ERCU and would like to build a ML boat works 1/6 scale into a 1/7 scale that turns left. I realize mods will have to be made like the Eliminator to be legal. Can I just reverse the pieces in the kit to make it turn left?

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

I can't see why not... Do it!

@wrenchg3954 Жыл бұрын

IT REALLY SHOULDN'T BE THAT DIFFICULT TO GET SOME LONG DOWELS A TAKE THEM TO A PLAINER AND MAKE THE TRIANGLULAR RODS. RIGHT? OR POSSIBLY MILL THEM. NOW THAT IM THINKING ABOUT IT, THERE MIGHT EVEN BE A ROUTER BIT FOR CUSTOM TRIM THAT WILL MAKE THE SHAPE. IDK FOOD FOR THOUGHT

@M5PerfHydros Жыл бұрын

Ya I've thought about that. Tricky to hold such small material while shaping, but I'm sure I could figure it out. Maybe you'll see it in a video one of these days!