Hi Jason,

Very nice destroyer, it would be good if you asked for a donation to be made to the RNLI then it goes to good cause as well as a new home, those are expensive motors 😀

Regards Ray

Hi Jason. I am not that far from Heston (Hampton Court), and although I like the idea of it, it is not something I would specifically want.

However, the thought of dumping it is too much to bear really, and on the off-chance that you get no takers I would be willing to take care of it and do some light restoration before deciding what exactly to do with it, all assuming you just need to be rid of it.

Likely we can easily get it running and there might be a chance for you to see it cruising around the pond at Bushy Park.

This is all assuming you get no takers after a while.

Ashley

Edited By ashley needham on 05/09/2020 11:14:46

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Regards

Roger

I would take it and snatch Jasons hands off at the same time, easily worth £100 donation, but its to far away to collect. I had even thought of getting a courier to pick it up but the packaging would be a nightmare.

Now if you only lived a little closer to gods own county.

I have taken delivery of said vessel, and it is a bit big.

Overall, it’s in pretty good nick.

Hull appears to be bread-and-butter with ply uppers,and although the grey bits are fine, the lower red bits have so serious splits, but nothing that a bit of filler and a fibreglass sheath wont fix. Flat bottom.

Internally it’s a bit of a mess. There is a servo and a pair of switches which I am taking to be the “speed controller”…a simple back-off-forward affair, with a second servo for the rudders. The mono perm (?) motors are very rusty and have loads of either resistors and/or capacitors on them and turn if a bit stiffly but could be just the gearing.

Railings all ok, a bonus and there are some nice fittings there. Masts shot, and I will probably make new de-mountable ones.

I have given it a cursory clean and it looks better already! It is a bit of a weight but not unmanageable.

Ashley

Hi All,

Well done to the Bushy Park Massive for saving the day and the model 👍👍👍👍

Regards Ray

The internals need removing, so I will measure up the motors etc. Likely the gears will need rgreasing.

The shafts are doubtless 2ba, and are fitted with weedy red three blade plastic props, however i have a pair of 50mm brass three blade l&r handed ones which would look nice.

Also included three dinky see-through Ripmax 6v 4Ah batteries, not gel cells, but real lead-acid ones!! One has been used but the others are new. £3.75 on the ticket!

Pictures to follow.

Although the upper works will be repaired, I dont think it will look much different to how it does, as I will not be doing any repainting. The paint is generally in good order, but faded from age, and I will not be able to match that.

Ashley

Made some Dexion brackets (easy as shelf supports are Dexion) and the boat is sitting quite nicely out of the way, and accessible for repairs, a result, and safer that hanging on a wall or dangling from the rafters.

Ashley

Topside washed down and looks better already! Probably needs one or two more goes.

Inside stripped. Motors work ok, one makes….brushy?? geary?? noises….going one way, but seems ok the other way. Will be careful when putting them back to match the rotation of prop and motor.. The cases will wire wool and varnish to look like the standard sort of plated black finish.

The MacGregor set works, or at least, one servo sort of turns and the other cant quite, but it should work ok once I get a new receiver battery box, one of those plastic 4x AA holders. The original has three wires and is set up to work as a pair of AA`s, and one single?? It has connectors unlike the modern `standard` servo plugs, and as it is a bit of a collectors item I don`t want to cut these off, so will go for a new servo/esc/receiver.

Propshafts out. Nothing wrong with them other than the tubes were filled with a really sticky black grease and were actually stiff to pull out! They need cleaning out somehow. Servo for some reason was sited way forward, and had a really long thin and unsupported rod. As it has ends on it and there`s nowt much wrong with it I may re use in conjunction with a bit of plastic `snake` sleeve for support. OR I may move the servo quite a bit further forward seeing as I have cut out the old (balsa) servo mounts.

Ashley

Hi Ashley, I've just had the same problem as you with a propshaft tube full of black sticky grease. I cleared it by standing the boat (Model Slipway Conserver) on it's stern and pouring about a half cup of white spirit through the tube. I caught the outflow in a small container and put it back through the tube for a second wash. It seems to have done the trick as putting the shaft through doesn't force any more gunge out and the shaft is now free to turn.

Your model is somewhat longer than Conserver so you might have to use some flexible tube to connect to the shaft tubes to do the wash through with your model horizontal. White spirit seems a pretty good solvent for shifting greasy and oily muck, and is relatively benign to cured painted surfaces.

Keith