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I went and looked at my friend who does gliders, and he let me look at his set up. They weren't bags. The were sheets of plastic that Toyota uses under the door panels in their cars. He works for Toyota, so I imagine he has an endless supply. The interesting thing is The plastic is very elastic. Kind of like rubber. And the more interesting thing is that he uses that black tar looking stuff that they stick the plastic on to seal two sheets together and around the reservor filter that you connect the pump hose to. You have to use a reservor filter to catch the excess resin before it goes to the pump. Their are many things you can use. If you want to use one over and over again, you can spend 10 bucks on one that is meant for this use, or you can make shift one out of a poly bottle. He said that he throws every thing away when it's finished. And the side of the plastic, that is touching the resin wet surface he wipes mold release wax on it, He said, that you probably don't have to do this, but for precations, he does.
Back to why my boat is dragging. I figured it out, and it was so simple. I was running my prop too shallow. I dropped the strut about 12 mm and it stopped dragging.
I had to drop down a size in prop though, but it seems to have trimmed out really nice. We'll see what happens.
SG Feedback: You are right again. He has really changed a lot on the boat. Yesterday, I had a chance to see a weed eater SG Eagle run. It was fine. He had a 23cc little more than stock Zenoah in it. Really loud though.
I noticed poking around the vids on the net, that the boats in the states aren't muffled so much.
Do you have rules for decibles during your races.
They are really strict about it over here. If a 15cc boat has more than 90db at 10 meters during the race, it gets disqualified. We all run and set our boats to run well with pretty heafty sub mufflers. The prather sub muffler is a guaranteed disqualification.
Question: What V series Octura prop works well with a .90. The SG weed eater that I saw. Had a V967 on it. Looked a little to heavy for my boat. I want to try one.
Never saw one before until yesterday. It seems like it would provide some pretty good lift. Any recommendations?
Mike! I think if you make a transom with the leftovers of your carbon plates it would be really strong. Just cut a bunch of pieces out the size you want, and sandwich them with fresh resin and cloth until you get the desired thickness. Then clamp them together really tight. It will be as tough as steel.
Been busy, Looks like you guys have been having fun while I've been away.
Thanks, Hammer.
