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  • 8 November 2011 at 12:37 #6747
    Gareth Jones
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      8 November 2011 at 12:37 #32365
      Gareth Jones
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        My wife Elizabeth has built a couple of Springer hulls and a range of interchangeable ‘lids’ one of which is the Mouseboat and since it seems to attract a lot of interest here is how it was done.
         
        The hull is a standard Springer size with a coaming on which the lid locates.
         
         
        The lid is built up in 3 mm liteply and the wheel is a standard hamster wheel from a pet shop.
         
         
        The wheel is attached to the lid using four tieraps. The drive pulley is made from two servo drive disks with a 3 mm ply disk sandwiched between them. The pully is stuck on the side of the wheel using araldite.
         

         
        The drive motor and reduction gearbox was cannibalised from one of our son’s toys. A similar drive pulley was attached to the output shaft, again using araldite, A Tamiya connector is used to connect the motor to the speed controller. The wheel motor is just wired in parallel with the main propellor drive motor using a common speed controller.
         

         
        A rubber band transmits the drive between the two pulleys through a slot in the lid.
         

        The wheelhouse is made up from liteply with suitable cheese wrapper on top.
        Mice were cat toys from Pets at Home, scaredy cat was from a dolls house shop.
        The faster the boat goes the faster the wheel rotates. From a distance it looks quite convincing. Elizabeth was threatend with reporting to the RSPCA when sailing in Rowntrees Park in York.

         
         

        Edited By Gareth Jones on 08/11/2011 12:43:10

        8 November 2011 at 15:15 #32371
        Colin Bishop
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          Thanks for posting Gareth – very ingenious!
           
          Colin
          8 November 2011 at 18:58 #32374
          Bob Abell 2
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            Just spotted that the mouse is suspended from the wheel axle
             
            Like Colin says…..Ingenious indeed!
             
            Bob
            8 November 2011 at 21:32 #32376
            neil hp
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              never ceases to amaze me where you guys get such inventive ideas for Springers from……I’ve seen some absolute crackers in the past few years…….and this is one of the best………superb.
              9 November 2011 at 17:50 #32386
              Gareth Jones
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                In response to Neil’s comments I perhaps need to clarify one point. It was not a guy who came up with the idea but a gal – my wife Elizabeth, who also built it. I can’t say any more as there will be an article featuring more of her wild and wacky ideas in a forthcoming edition of Model Boats magazine and I have been sworn to secrecy by the editor.

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