That's gonna be a good drive angle for the rough water! (kidding) Looks good and nice to see it coming together so quickly...those shiny props look nice!
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A ThanksOriginally posted by Lone-Wolf View Post
, I have pretty much all the parts I need and plenty of time to kill since I'm laid up so I may as well work on it to keep myself busy 
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Alrighty , She's really coming together nicely and she's starting to look like a nice little Hot Rod . I used some Shoe Goo to seal up the stuffing tubes @ the rear transom, then I got the inner rear deck plate screwed down and got the new Servo In-Place. I bought some new tips for my 60 watt hobbico soldering iron so I thought I'd put it to good use and I soldered up the leads on the motors then used it to solder 4 mm gold plated male bullet connectors on the motor leads and it worked beautifully. I was going to solder the gold-plated female bullet connectors on the speed control but it still has the factory female bullets on it and there 4 millimeter and even though they're not gold plated bullet connectors I decided to leave them on and run it as is because I don't think it will make much of a difference either way, then I moved on to the monster horsepower motors and got them mounted up to the aluminum motor plate on the new motor mounts which is a first for me because I've never used this villain motor mount system before.
I also got the steering linkage fished through the push rod boots and connected to the servo, but when I went to connect the steering linkage rods to the drives I realized that I had the drives on the wrong sides. Needless to say I had to pull the props off the propshafts and pull the drives off the struts and get everything switched around to the opposite sides that they were on. After getting that done I threw my Rev-Tech lipos in it and called it good for today.Comment
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Ummm, laid up?? WTH! Boat is Looking goodComment
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OK, when you heading to the lake to shoot us a vid?
Nice work, think that's a record for the Villain in terms of build time!Comment
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Hiya Guy's
We had a few errands to run earlier this afternoon so while we were out and about we stopped at Big Lots and while we were there I picked up a new set of Allen wrenches so I could get the drives on this villain squared away. I couldn't get the broken half of the U joint off of the Driveline because the grub screw was stripped out so I had to pull the Driveline and cut it off with my angle grinder and a metal cutting disc, thankfully I never hit the Driveline with the cutting disc. I got the drive lines and Prop Shops hook together with the new universal joints and then finished up by connecting the steering linkage's to the outdrive's. Time to move on to the water cooling system and a couple other things and get this villain project buttoned-up ...
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Okay, I just got the water cooling system installed for the most part. While drilling out the rear transom, for some unknown reason the drill bit blew a bigger hole in the rear transom than I wanted or needed for one of the mounting screws
, so I filled the hole with a little Shoe Goo then I put the screw for that side through the water pickup and put a nice layer of Shoe Goo across the back of the water pickup and around the screw and stuck the pickup in place on the rear transom, then I put the other screw through the water pickup to secure it. Since everything below the rear deck plate is submerged on these boats I wanted to make sure it was sealed up and water tight and Shoe Goo should definitely take care of that. With that being done I drilled another hole through the rear transom just big enough to squeeze the water line through to the inside of the boat above and between the steering linkage boots and fished the water line through it into the boat and got it connected to the cooling coils for the motor.
On my last villain boat I drilled a hole through the starboard side of it to Port the water out but this time around I really don't want to do that again because these are a double hulled boat with an inner and an outer Hull & it's just a pain in the butt and I definitely don't want to drill yet another hole through the rear transom especially below the duck plate. I was thinking about getting something like a windshield squirter nozzle for a car and putting it on the rear center section of the canopy and running the water Outlet line to that instead but I don't think a squirter nozzle will flow enough water to get the job done. So maybe I can find something like a 45° water Outlet to use instead or something similar there for two that would get the job done. Other than that the water cooling system is installed. I still need to get the speed control mounted and plugged in and I also need to get a receiver set up as well. Ice still have some skill details I would like to address like some kind of deck railings and air horns and a couple other things for Aesthetics because they do look nice with them, and I also need to find an unlimited class style spoiler and a couple struts for it to put it on the back of the boat. Maybe something like an 8th scale truggy spoiler, idk ? ...Last edited by gsbuickman; 05-26-2018, 10:48 AM.Comment
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I wish I could find the pics.
Back in 2005 at the nats we had a guy show with a Villian. He was a machinist by trade. Ran twin Lehner Nasic 4200's. Everything was custom. Hand made gear boxes hardware. Everything but the props.Noisy personComment
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Looks great, so cool keeping it old school, keeping it alive thanks to you!
Looking forward to hearing how she Maiden's...Comment
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Ha ha, now that you mention it I've seen that boat, that damn thing was awesomeOriginally posted by T.S.Davis View Post . What I really liked about it where the extended aluminum outdrives that he made for it. It makes me wish I had a milling machine because the best upgrade you can do to these Villain's other than props would be aluminum out drives ...
I was looking at the back of the Blackjack 26 that I bought last night thinking it might be cool to add some turn fins to the villain but I really don't want to drill any more holes in the rear transom than I have to
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ThanksOriginally posted by Lone-Wolf View Post . I wish Make-a-Wake was still active on the board. He was a hard core old school RC boat motor kind of like DiegoBoy, but since he and I both got out of the hobby I decided to continue dabbling in it just to keep the cool old school boats alive .
I'm in Namba dist 12 & RC boating was really huge here in the valley and they had several major races every year @ Park Center pond in Boise until someone w/ an rc boat hit a damn duck & everyone lost their damn Minds over it. I'm fairly certain it was an unintentional accident because I've had ducks come in for a landing on the water while I've had my boat out running around and they've landed right in front of the thing and there were several occasions where I was barely able to avoid hitting them myself. Before anyone knew what was happening the Boise city council and some of the idiots in the Boise State House effectively outlawed RC boats and killed the hobby here in the valley overnight, all because someone hit a damn duck ...
After that anyone caught with a boat in the water pretty much anywhere in Ada County got a butt chewing and got ran off and/or got a ticket in the process. Well, that was a few years ago and a lot of people have forgotten about it, and little by little we've had some renewed interest in the RC Boat Hobby thanks to my friends Tim and Stacy at our local hobby shop spreading the word and helping to get people interested in the hobby, but I still prefer to keep things low-key and stay off the local constabulary's radar with my boats, because I was still being run off regularly for running my boats @ Kleiner Park prior to being laid up. I've found that one of the best ways to do that is to enjoy the old school boats instead of trying to be a Speed Demon and trying to set speed records with GPS runs and such that tends to draw a lot of attention most of which is unwanted by other folks that are trying to use the water wherever you're trying to run. They don't pay much attention to the older slower boats as long as you're trying to mind your own business especially since they don't require as much real estate to run them which is fine with me ...
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You make a valid case for running the much slower "old school" boats with regards to annoying people or potentially causing an injury to anything living. I've got a beautiful lake 5 minutes away but it's heavily used through the warmer months by everything from National level Rowing to casual swimmers, the ones I have to really watch out for are the Triathlete's that swim across the lake, I have to really scan the water to make sure nobody is anywhere out there and if there is I may as well just go home. Best time of year is through the cooler months and I have full access but then the issue is the screaming noise of 100+mph SAW boats, the almighty high-pitched shriek of them (that I personally love!), doesn't help that there are a ton rotten millionaires within earshot but c'mon, the boats run for less than a few minutes total! So what I'm trying to say is I feel your pain, running fast boats is stressful on so many levels but maybe that's part of the draw, because you can't run them all the time or it would become boring?...but probably not! One last thing, I do mind my own business when at the lake but as you may know, these things seem to draw people in, yeah it's a good thing for the hobby but I'm thinking of getting a custom t-shirt made that answers the three basic newb questions; 1) How much does it cost? (more than the car that drove it here) 2) How far does it go? (out of sight) 3) Can I have a try? (NO!)
Maybe what I really need is Villain again and issues solved...but they ain't cheap LOL!Comment
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Oh I know Right?Originally posted by Lone-Wolf View Post
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We have a lot of water here in the valley but I avoid all the really popular heavily-used places like the rivers, lakes, reservoirs and dams like the plague with my boats, it's just too much of a hassle and too much trouble to deal with trying to avoid all the problems that come with it because there are just too many people using them for too many things, with the exception of the rivers. I don't put my boats on the rivers because if something goes wrong for some unknown reason you have a pretty good chance of losing your boat all together because it's going to float away before you can get to it
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I prefer the smaller but outta the way ponds that aren't as heavily used as all of the really popular spots. Some of them are big enough you could almost consider them a small Lake and they're big enough you can get some really good high speed runs on them but they're still small enough that they don't create their own waves like the big reservoirs and big lakes do and that's one thing I really look for because I don't like dealing with waves & whitecaps with the boats I run (36" or less). I prefer calm water and in the early morning and late afternoon early evening, glass water if it all possible
. I agree that the best time to run boats is in the cooler months when not too many people are taking advantage of the water and you can pretty much have them to yourself. With that being said, sometimes it makes me wonder why I like RC boat's so much with all the time and $ I put into them in comparison to how much runtime I actually get out of them. With most of my boats whether I'm running 2s - 6s I get an average of 4-6 min's of run time on 5000mah packs. It takes me longer to pack everything up, get where I'm going and get everything unpacked just to get a few minutes of runtime (8-12) with one or two of my boats before it's time to pack up and head out again & nothing sucks more than getting your gear loaded up and heading out only to find that your favorite two or three boat holes had too many ducks geese and people fishing or what not to even bother with trying 
but, I do it anyway...
On a side note at least with the cool old school boats, even when you're running some fast brushed motors and turning a nice set of aluminum or beryllium props you get much better run times out of them and you can usually find a nice little corner of a pond somewhere that's not being used and have a little fun running them without cutting anyone's fishing lines or whatever and getting yelled at in the process
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Howdy & Mornin' Guy's
I know it's been awhile and with things being what they are as of late some things got put on the back burner for a bit but as promised he finally came together Now That I Found a set of water Outlets that I really like rather than the run-of-the-mill thru transome outlets that add to the scale look of the Chapparel boats. I searched every place I could come up with trying to come up with something like I had in mind but wasn't having much luck until a friend messaged me and suggested checking out RC boat Bitz in Australia, so I did and sure as haydes they had exactly what I was after. Speed boat stlye exhaust tip h20 outlets they are anodized in chrome blue and red and look really nice and I wasn't sure what size would be better so I ordered a set of large Blue tips and a set of medium chrome's. Granted there was a snafu in shipping which was a pain in the butt as the tips wound up at my local post office but I didn't get the notice that my mildewed body left in my box for me so they wound up getting shipped back to Boat Bitz so I had to reorder them but he got them back out to me via priority toot sweet and it didn't take long before they were in my mailbox here at home.
I decided to finish off this boat with the blue tips and save the chromies for the Reedy X-press and Id say they look pretty good and the water will roll right off the back of the boat with nothing to worry about. I'll Plum them both with a Y fitting so they're both functional and to speed up h20 flow but I'm also going to make a couple bases for them that'll tilt them back a bit more & finish them off. Overall I like it & I'm glad she's done
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sorry guys, I was using a new HTC blade x max Android phone that I recently picked up and wound up having an issue loading pics from it so I had to transfer the pics via Bluetooth to my tablet and then upload them from there but they're doneComment
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