Jon Mathison
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- Jun 19, 2021
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Hello from Tokyo, Japan. I wanted to take a moment and introduce myself and say thank you for allowing me the opportunity to join your forum.
I’m an American living and working in Tokyo for the last 16 years, it’s wonderful, safe an amazing country to live in btw.
I mostly run and race 1/10 scale on road cars and buggy here in Japan, I also enjoy flying RC warbirds when not racing on road cars. I’m totally a newbie when it’s comes to the RC boats scene but became really interested in the sport after attending a event down in Nagoya
I purchased a new O.S. Max 21XM Ver. 2 (air cooled )off Yahoo auction about 8 months ago for 20,000¥ ( about 200$ ) then started looking for a tunnel hull for the engine. It took a few months to find one I thought would be a good fit for the O.S. Engine.
I picked up a used AquqCraft Top Speed 3 from a guy in Kyoto who ran it some heat events, the overall condition of the boat is excellent. The previous owner ran it with the same O.S. engine but the water cooled version. The radio system was include with tunnel hull, it’s a Futaba 3PM-2.4G MX Fasst system. The boat has been heavenly modified from the original kit. Tunnel cowling is custom made, custom made radio box, 3 channel setup with remote needle flow adjustments while running. Unique doubled fuel tank setup for the remote needle adjustments. Remote no-off for the radio receiver. Very happy with the overall build quality and craftsmanship .
Now I just need to learn how to run it . Any advice on breaking in the engine, prop size recommendations for break in and running. Has anyone ever used this remote needle in-line adjustable setup before ? Would like some suggestions on how to fine tune it.
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I’m an American living and working in Tokyo for the last 16 years, it’s wonderful, safe an amazing country to live in btw.
I mostly run and race 1/10 scale on road cars and buggy here in Japan, I also enjoy flying RC warbirds when not racing on road cars. I’m totally a newbie when it’s comes to the RC boats scene but became really interested in the sport after attending a event down in Nagoya
I purchased a new O.S. Max 21XM Ver. 2 (air cooled )off Yahoo auction about 8 months ago for 20,000¥ ( about 200$ ) then started looking for a tunnel hull for the engine. It took a few months to find one I thought would be a good fit for the O.S. Engine.
I picked up a used AquqCraft Top Speed 3 from a guy in Kyoto who ran it some heat events, the overall condition of the boat is excellent. The previous owner ran it with the same O.S. engine but the water cooled version. The radio system was include with tunnel hull, it’s a Futaba 3PM-2.4G MX Fasst system. The boat has been heavenly modified from the original kit. Tunnel cowling is custom made, custom made radio box, 3 channel setup with remote needle flow adjustments while running. Unique doubled fuel tank setup for the remote needle adjustments. Remote no-off for the radio receiver. Very happy with the overall build quality and craftsmanship .
Now I just need to learn how to run it . Any advice on breaking in the engine, prop size recommendations for break in and running. Has anyone ever used this remote needle in-line adjustable setup before ? Would like some suggestions on how to fine tune it.
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