What tools have you wanted but can't get because they are on your boat?

Beneteau381 said:
Electric
Or Ether?
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Showing your age there Stu ?

Ether (aka Diesel) are still seen but rarely. There’s one guy in our club with a PAW but I’ve never seen it run. Each time he brings the model it steadfastly refuses to start. Just like it was in the 60s ?

Methanol engines are still common and they power most of my models. I prefer 4-stroke as they are a piece of engineering excellence. I only have OS (2-t and 4-t) and Irvin.

I have a couple of 2-t petrol engines. They give very low fuel consumption, probably a third of a methanol engine. Big plus, petrol costs about 20% of methanol fuel so these engines are increasing in popularity.

Electric engine - what are they? No smoke or smell, no thanks ?

You should go and browse Webbys (do you remember them) once all of this has blown over and buy yourself a model or two. Great opportunity to buy more tools.
 
Refueler said:
Club has not shut down our normal field - but we are not a big club and often on your own there ... but its a 30 minute drive ..
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I find flying my models on my own a bit boring. We have a brilliantly friendly club of 70 members and a good field where if something is amiss with a model there is immediately 4 heads stuck in it. They do not all know how to fix it, but one of them will. Most of the fun is the chat.
No drones just choppers & fixed wing
I bet once this self isolation phase is over there will be 2 things
1) lots of crashes due to in familiarity
2) lots of new models built over the lay off
There will be plenty to talk about & i am looking forward to it.
 
Refueler said:
Ether ?? That's the old diesel's ... haven't seen a Diesel model engine for many years now ...

Today its basically down to 3 types :

Electric
Methanol (Glowplug)
Gasoline 2 and 4 str
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I know its thread drift .... but to give indication :

Tiger Moth with 5S LiPo Brushless electric :


40yr old Skymaster Biplane with 10cc Glowplug Methanol engine


Zlin Z50LS with 15cc Gaoline 2str motor ...


Then we have fun machines ...

Mig 29 ...



Just a small selection out of my over 55 models hangar !!
 
Daydream believer said:
I find flying my models on my own a bit boring. We have a brilliantly friendly club of 70 members and a good field where if something is amiss with a model there is immediately 4 heads stuck in it. They do not all know how to fix it, but one of them will. Most of the fun is the chat.
No drones just choppers & fixed wing
I bet once this self isolation phase is over there will be 2 things
1) lots of crashes due to in familiarity
2) lots of new models built over the lay off
There will be plenty to talk about & i am looking forward to it.
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I too am not a lone flyer person ... I soon pack up and go home ... but love club spirit and get togethers. Our club do a lot of village fete displays static and flight ... but this year - will be zero.
 
anoccasionalyachtsman said:
I'd imagine that a lot of people were in the middle of getting set for the season, so will have had all sorts of stuff on board which would then get moved home again.
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In my twenties I raced my Stella & i was talking to an elderly gent about why I always got left behind. I was unloading the boat & he saw that i had 4 identical screw drivers. He asked why I needed 4 & I did not know. His first tip was to take everything i did not need off the boat & I have done that ever since. At the end of the season I empty my boat. I is surprising how much i had on board after the first couple of years of my new boat but gradually this has been reduced. It makes room, It is easier to find stuff. It stops stuff I do not need going rusty. & in the end the boat sails better with better weight distribution & lighter.

That is my reasoning for my post & why it should result in insults by others( not you I might add) I do not know. However, comments are noted & will be remembered for the future
 
Poignard said:
So far:

Pop rivet gun

Speedi-stitcher

Crimping tool

Copper mallet

Breaker bar

How about you?
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For me it is normally the other way. I go down to do some work and leave some tools at home. With a 200 mile round trip it has ment a trip to hardware shop to purchase missing tool so that work is not held up. Boat is therefore collecting tools ....
 
Boathook said:
For me it is normally the other way. I go down to do some work and leave some tools at home. With a 200 mile round trip it has ment a trip to hardware shop to purchase missing tool so that work is not held up. Boat is therefore collecting tools ....
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"He who dies with most tools wins"! (y)
 
Kelpie said:
I've got a neat little portable bluetooth speaker radio thingy, that I think must be aboard as I can't find it at home. It's annoying listening to everything on laptop speakers!
I gather than a trip to my boat to check things like mooring lines and bilges should count as essential maintenance and is still allowed... for now...
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Why not order a Logitech Bluetooth device that plugs into your home amp, about £20 from Amazon. Works well for me.

Apart from a few sanders on board there’s nothing much I’m missing so far.......
 
Bicycle rear sprocket cassette socket after the wife's bike fell apart (Last stripped by a professional...)

Crimpers after the chainsaw's 240v cable fatigue failed where it entered the body, for the second time in two chains! Used the house's emergency plumbing kit to solder it instead - nice wiped joints ;0)
 
colind3782 said:
As the boat is 1000 miles away and missing me :( I have a second (and third) set of everything at home.
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Mine is even further away, and the problem is not what is on the boat, but what is not. I have the boats papers at home and they are needed in Turkey to put the boat in bond.
 
Kelpie said:
I've got a neat little portable bluetooth speaker radio thingy, that I think must be aboard as I can't find it at home. It's annoying listening to everything on laptop speakers!
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Same here. Also. my crew is at school in the house but having some difficulties because wifi does not easily penetrate 3' thick stone walls. We're improvising with a long USB cable and a fake Alfa USB wifi adapter but I really wish I had though to bring back the Tube-U adapter I have on the boat.
 
Skylark said:
Ether (aka Diesel) are still seen but rarely. There’s one guy in our club with a PAW but I’ve never seen it run. Each time he brings the model it steadfastly refuses to start. Just like it was in the 60s ?
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When my old Dad died he left 55 model aircraft engines from the 40s to the 70s, so for a few fun-filled weeks I got absorbed in that world as eBay dispersed the collection. Amazing how many engines were made on the Isle of Man. The prize item was a very scruffy Caledonian Clansman (bare engine only, no carb) which went to New Zealand for an extraordinary price.

I still have a genuine (not Indian), brand new Mills 0.75 to dispose, together with the model hydroplane with which it was originally sold.
 
Daydream believer said:
I find flying my models on my own a bit boring. We have a brilliantly friendly club of 70 members and a good field where if something is amiss with a model there is immediately 4 heads stuck in it. They do not all know how to fix it, but one of them will. Most of the fun is the chat.
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I once sat in the back seat of an ASH-25 (two-seater ultra-high performance glider) for a delivery trip of several hundred miles across France. At one point near the Massif Central we were getting rather low, but took heart from an airfield with nice tarmac runaway within easy gliding range. Then someone walked out on the runway and we realised that (a) it was about six feet wide and (b) we were actually less than 500' above ground level. I take no credit whatsoever for the magnificent climb P1 did to get us out of that little mess.
 
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