Thanks Doug Just a history Doug No items for sale but interesting👍

Hi John,
No I didn't know there was a premium on ED stuff!
Will have to start touring the Flohmärkte here (Flea Markets - have never heard of a 'Kofferraum Sale (Boot Sale😉) here.
Dimly remember drooling over ED engine ads, way out of my range back then🤔 Didn't know they did RC kit til it popped up here.
Sorry to dash your hopes but Unfortunately I only have the info and not the stuff itself😭
Here are the links
http://www.modelenginenews.org/cardfile/ed_radios.html

http://www.modelenginenews.org/cardfile/ed_radios.html#3

Happy browsing / reminiscing 👍 Cheers, Doug😎

This all goes to show what a broad church modelmaking is. Unfortunately, each discipline refuses to acknowledge the other. The number of polymath model fans like me is very small.

Onetenor, there is the MPBA, although no doubt it sticks to its Power Boat aspect.

I'm not one for starting stuff any more. Bin dare, dun dat, thanks.

Martin

Here's a few toy museums https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Model+Museums+in+U+K&oq=Model+Museums+in+U+K&aqs=chrome..69i57.29993j1j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
The British Maritime Museum has loads of models too

There should be a BMBA to organise boat stuff. How could we form one?👍

Hi Guys, I thought you might like to know that the BMFA have a national centre which is going to include a museum. Although it may be all aircraft at the start it may include other genres as well.

Doug did you know that there is a premium on ED stuff.BTW what was that site you got the stuff on ? I'd like to see if there is more.👍

Yep, afraid you'll only find that sort of stuff in a website🤔, like the one I found the ED engines and RC kit in.

Doug, I don't generally "do" foreign and Pete certainly wouldn't. As you say, most are model railway or strictly stick and string model ships. What we wanted to do was a general model hobby museum with a bias toward the RC hobbies. Ain't none of them.

History of RC, RC cars, boats and aircraft. Materials, tools, etc. Mags and books, that kind of thing.

Martin

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=Model+museums&searchToken=5rdalovz96wnmkq3wr9ucfou9

https://www.google.com/search?q=Model+museums&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b

https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/museum-collections/worlds-largest-ship-model-collection

A lot are Model Railway Museums but there are many model ship museums and others as well.
Haven't found a pure Woodie museum yet though 😁
Happy hunting
Doug

Ha!, that's the ONE, Doug and it's more toy than model. There used to be one at Beale Park, but that seems to have gone. I think there was one in London, but was also more toy than model. I know of no purely model museums. Serious , explain that we'd all have bugger all if it weren't for models...museums. I started collecting stuff for one, years ago and that never happened either. I ended up flogging it all off on ebay.

Martin

" but there ain't no model museums."
Sure there are Martin, thousands, all over the world.
This is just one in the south of England
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Brighton_Toy_and_Model_Museum

Cheers, Doug 😎

Last I saw t, he showed it working. Alas he has been stricken with Alzheimers in the last few months. I was asked not to go round as his wife had had a fall and it was all rather awkward round there. So suddenly a good old friend (he's 84) has been taken from me. What will happen to all his stuff, I dread to think. There are over 50 flyable aircraft in sheds, caravans and his large loft, even some boats. He gave me a GRP hull of the Bloodhound and a freelance, very early GRP cruiser hull. I shall attempt to finish them in his memory, because it's like he's died.
That E.D. RC set should be in a museum, but there ain't no model museums.

Martin

Neither can I Martin!
"The transmitter used two vacuum tubes wired as a multi-vibrator with a tank circuit to constrain emissions to somewhere near the 27 M/cs band (same as MHz, but that name came later). With not a crystal in sight, transmitter frequency drift and battery voltage drain was a problem, so careful tuning just prior to short flights was the order of the day."

http://www.modelenginenews.org/cardfile/ed_radios.html#3

Cheers, Doug 😎

I was just going on the memory of it being so tall.

I can't imagine flying an aerobatic schedule with it.

Martin

Hi Martin, 6 feet is about 1/6th wavelength at 27Megs so should work fine.
Cheers, Doug 😎

Gents, just put the Sea Hornet in the build blog section, but whether it gets seen or not, I don't know.
If the IC engine is an easy runner, Colin, run it on a water where the turds can't stop you. A navigable river or canal or just run the bugger till someone can prove (PROVE, mind) that you can't. Then just run it till the fuel runs out, reluctantly apologise and leave.

BTW, I won't be showing video of this as I have no mobile phone beyond an emergency one that don't do pictures of any kind. I have a video camera somewhere that has dead batteries and a power pack, but where I sail there ain't no power!

Doug, would the ED aerial be more like 27 meg if it was 6 foot long? I think it gets damned close to his ceiling if you try to put it up at home.

So, chaps, Sea Hornet/Chris-Craft Special Runabout over on the Build blog section ifn you'm interested.

Cheers,
Martin

I can't wait to see it either Colin!😉

Martin: "plus a 22 1/2 volt, the same size as a PP3. Not sure what you'd do for that!" - 3 LiPo 2S (7.4V) in series should do the trick 👍 Or 2 x 3S (11.1V) or a 6S if you can find one!
8ft aerial! if a full wave antenna that puts the operating frequency at about 120MHz. if, as more likely, it's a 1/2 or 1/4 wave antenna it would be 60 or 30MHz. The latter being most probable.
Cheers, Doug 😎

If I do get it, I don't know if it will be possible to use the diesel engine as no safe water near me that allows IC engines, so may just get used as a display model for the vintage shows I go to. Although I have only managed 1 show this season as ill health and then lack of a vehicle has hampered my year. Which I think is about to get better when my replacement car arrives on Monday.
Cheers Colin.

Oh PLEASE buy it, Colin. Sounds marvelous. Far too few diesel powered boats about and that RC sound s wonderful. I have an old chum who still has a 10 channel reed set of E.D. RC gear which still works. He says he had to fly with a plastic trimmer screwdriver in his hand to constantly retune the pots whilst flying!
It has an 8 foot aerial and stands on the ground while he has a hand set wired to it.
Doug could get that going. T
They say you can't get the batteries, but a box of ten PP3s is a 90 volt battery. That's what my old REP set had, plus a 22 1/2 volt, the same size as a PP3. Not sure what you'd do for that!

Cheers,
Martin

Well Martin, its their loss. I try to make everything except the electrics. I suppose I'm lucky in being a retired prototype engineer, with my own machines and space to work. These days I am restoring more than building, I find it more challenging. Spotted a vintage boat in antique shop today, it had diesel marine power and valve and relay control system with a strange adjustable korts nozzle arrangement. I am trying to get the wife to let me buy it. Cheers Colin.

Nowhere near the interest required, Colin. I was once asked by the editor of Model Railway Journal to write some articles. I did and the editor had changed and he said, "Nobody makes anything any more". And he the editor of the one magazine for scratchbuilders! Nah, sod 'em.

Cheers,
Martin

Can't wait to see her on plane, and look forward to reading your book. I'm sure you can make a better job of it.
Cheers Colin.

Maybe I should write one, eh, Colin? For the scratchbuilders among us. A treatise on brass bashing and woodwork. Nobody would be interested.

I've just epoxied my Sea Hornet, which I'm modifying as a Chris Craft Custom Runabout. One cockpit, big hatch. Cost me 99p off ebay a few years ago. I just had to scrape all the old red paint off it as it wanted to fall off anyway! Then a huge rub down, a wipe with cellulose thinner and a coat of epoxy applied with a square of styrene sheet because I couldn't find an old credit card on the quick, just as good though.
Next, rub down and 2 coats of cellulose primer surfacer, then the top coats. This one is to be one of the painted CCs. There were quite a few. But the deck will be veneered in the correct style and varnished.

Martin

Good review, I concur wholeheartedly. I borrowed a copy and wasn't impressed, but as you say some useful addresses. Cheers Colin.

Hmmm, well a cursory look through over lunch shows me that the book is fine if you're a kit basher as it covers the Dumas kind of kit, but for the actual modelmaker it holds nothing but nice pics on indifferent paper.
Some useful addresses in the back. That's about it.
Nothing on deck fittings, etc.

Martin