darindotson

Oh, and Dave, I think I found your boat in Scandinavia- here it is! Enjoy.

Darin

bullboy8

Not at all dave I'll help you were I can! I know your busy with work and everyday life, so do feal too rushed on finding a painter because my other parts won't be in until Friday. -Ed

FlogginHarvey

Dave, how is the boat running? Curious to know if you have your radio box sorted yet?

bullboy8

Yah Dave let is us in on what you have been doing. -Edmond

Lil Dave

I will take some pics and let you all in this evening!! Dave

Lil Dave

Well Darin, I ordered the dress up kit from dumas(thanks!) Well my steering is working, I'm working on the throttle now. I want to do some sanding and possibly carbon fiber the floor of the hull. The pics you see the components are just sitting there for my viewing pleasure.... I was gonna hook bullboy up with my hotrod painter, But ed found someone else, so I'm gonna take the opening. I ordered my prop and cable ferrule today. So it's on the way.... Whatcha think so far?

bullboy8

Looks good dave! Your making me feel bad about hooking me up with the paint job (and not taking it)[&o]...but hey you got one now. Seriously though, I really do feel bad about that because I know you tried to help me out. It's funny though the painter that is painting my boat is a family friend, and oh boy now he's got the rc boat fever! Anyways back to you Dave, maybe in a couple weeks you will be ready to hit the water?! I want to see the Dumas in action. -Edmond

Lil Dave

I'm at the mercy of whh at the moment..... and no worries about the painter thing man! So the scarab is pretty cool, when I built it I knew I wasn't going keep the homelite, So by using alum and such to mount the fully shrouded weedy, I didn't swiss cheese the stringers, so I can upgrade in the future with ease. I'm curious as to how my budget build will perform so I may get it out soon and save the paint job for another project... This boat is just a stepping stone, I have my first scratch build in the works.... That Darn Fever!! Lol

planebasher

Here is a video of mine running: Sikk 26, X470 prop, 33.8 mph, 4 to 8 in. chop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2JOUsAcFw0

planebasher

Here is a video of mine running: Sikk 26, X470 prop, 33.8 mph, 4 to 8 in. chop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2JOUsAcFw0

darindotson

Nice boats guys!! I've got the fever too- right now, I'm saving up for an MHZ drive, which costs more than the boat-aaarrggh. But it will look so scale. I've got my hatch cut, as well as the hull- getting ready to start glassing in the transom doubler and the stringers!

D.

FlogginHarvey

Dave: Looks GREAT!!! You are making great headway!!! This last part always takes the most time... I am hoping to get mine dialed in later tonight...we'll see.

Plabe basher: Nice run man. Looks great on the water!!!

Darin: MHZ Z-drive!!! Nice. pop me an e-mail/PM so i do not hijack his thread...

bullboy8

Had to bump the Dumas up to the top So, any word from WHH? Does Sunday sound good to you to meet at the pond? I'll prob. try to be there around 9-10am

Lil Dave

My parts should be in any day now, so I hope for next weekend for a trip to the lake with the scarab. I'm finishing my sanding and soing some final automation tuning and she should be ready for a trial. I'll roll out there about 9 on sunday. I'm gonna bring the basher and maybe my lil electric to tool around with. SCHWEET!!! Finally someone else to share in my sickness with!!! Are you bringing the new boat only?? I'd like to see PJ in action as well....

bullboy8

Hey Dave I'll be bring both hopefully. but the new one for sure. I ran into a snag though with the brass water fitting that does into the pipe. It is leaking through the threads any ideas?

Lil Dave

Did you install the fitting dry? Will you need to remove it in the future? I would first try teflon thread sealant, we use it on coolant, hydraulic, and oil fittings all the time and it seems to hold up to heat pretty well, and with a water-cooled header/manifold it should hold up. Next I would try loctite if thread sealant doesn't work. As a last resort if you won't have to remove the fitting.... jb weld. hope that helps!

bullboy8

I installed with a tad blue loc tite. Thinking about gobbing it up with red. Sorry for semi-jacking your thread

dicko

I've used the red gasket silicon before. Be carefull not to use too much & once you have it screwed in blow through the lines to make sure the holes are clear of silicon. No point stopping the water leak if you block the whole thing up.

Lil Dave

I like copper rtv, or teflon thread sealant. On my chevys and such, I use copper rtv between my manifolds and heads ( Both machined surfaces). And jack away, My only requirement is have your "significant other" Give mine a lesson on gifts. I wish mine would get me a zen! Good call Dicko!

Nosedragger

I finally found the catalog, its in rough shape though. Heres a pic of the Scarab. Appears to have "38 ZXP" on deck and sides and pin stripe just above chine.

Lil Dave

well I'm most the way set to put it in the water tomorrow, but... This lil homie isn't happy. it runs for a minute then idles up and dies... almost like running out of fuel. So gonna keep at it and hopefully get her to come around... wish me luck

bullboy8

Hey dave you gonna be out about the same time tomorrow?

Lil Dave

Yup!! See ya then?

Lil Dave

So I got to take her out today, She's not quite finished yet, I have some touches I'm gonna add, but it was a good day. I wanted to take a vid but it was hard to drive and film. After some tuning of the carb it started to come around. The carb I took off of it didn't have a high adjustment, so I took a carb off of a 30cc I found in the scrap bin, and strapped her on, The numbers on it are wt454, and 833. it may be a bit much for it but I have a header and expansion chamber on the bench that I'm building for her. I'm running a 7.2 1600Mah pack and a 374oz steer servo, and a 204oz throttle servo and their great! It turns both directions awesome! I need to finish the exhaust to get some more out of the lil homie, and I may try my hand at modding on this... So now that this build is gettting close to completion, I got a 72" mono on the books next, for this I'm buying a zen and may actually spend some money... Anyone heard of the carb i'm running? too large? She was good for about 15-20... I'm running a prather 275. all in all i'm happy but want more speed, I'm not expecting craziness from it but just some more.

bullboy8

Sorry I wasn't there bud[] Would have liked to see her out! Do you still have the old carb? If so let us know what the number is off of it.