| NAMBA memberships | Hull Busters subscriptions |
|---|---|
| Membership in NAMBA is required for all participants in the IR/CWCC battles. This is where our personal and lake insurance comes from! To obtain membership in in NAMBA , send $45.00 to: Namba Int., 1815 Halley Street, San Diego, CA 92154. You can contact NAMBA through their secretary Kathy for additional information. | Hull Busters, the bi-monthly newletter of the IR/CWCC is closing its doors as of December of 2001. After better than 20 years of reporting the news, publishing "How-to"s, occasional political commentary, and down right bragging; the publication is to be no more. Sorry to see the end of this the longest running newsletter of the hobby. |
IRCWCC has its own website and has finally gained the ownership of its domain name! The new website is at: http://www.ircwcc.org/ . After years of wishing to gain ownership, it has finally come true. Through the efforts of the Present EBoard and Chris Decker, the negotiations went through.
In addition, the present site host, Larry Ricci, has put up a web site for the Nationals. URL is: http://www.warshipcombatnationals.org/ Also Larry has put up a email list. Information on how to join can be found at the Nationals site OR send this email with your name in the body of the message after the subscribe IRCWCC. i.e. Type your name in after Subscribe IRCWCC in the email
Our battles generally start at about 10:00 am and 2:00 pm. Visitors and spectators are always welcome BUT... will be required to wear safety glasses within the battle area due to the possibility of being hit with a fired bb. The club makes a quanity of Safety glasses available for the visitors but the supply is limited, so if you can bring your own, please do! Be advised that safety glasses are required at all times due to the possibility of a ships guns firing even when on the workbench (in the Pit). We will have our area taped off so that the area of safety glass usage will be evident. There will also be a tape line half way up the hill, that we ask our visitors to stay behind while viewing the battles. This is to keep them back from the edge of the lake and out of the way of the captains who are watching their boats not the spectators and may run over someone.
For additional information on the
Maryland Attack Group,
contact Marty Hayes @ 410-757-5593
MAG workshops are held weekly on Friday nites at 1106 Skyway Drive,
Cape St. Claire (Nr. Annapolis, MD)
Ever since the new subfleet of "Pig Boats" did so well at Nats 95, the Allied
fleet has been looking for a way to honor them. It looks like they have found a
method. Staff members of the R/C Combat web site have come across this
specialized vehicle apparently being constructed to convey them to Nats 96. The
specialized construction seems to indicate a firm conviction that the vehicle in
some way supports the "Pig Boat fleet" with the special systems needed by them.
| Name | Address | Phone Number - web site |
|---|---|---|
| Herbach and Rademan (H&R) | 18 Canal St P.O.Box 122 Bristol, Pa 19007-0122 |
Orders 1-800-848-8001 Fax 215-788-9577 Office 215-788-5583 |
| American Science and Surplus | 3605 Howard Street Skokie, Il 60076 |
Orders 708-982-0870 Fax 800-934-0722 |
| All Electronics Corp | 905 S. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles 90006 |
Order 1-800-826-5432 Fax 818-781-2653 Customer service 818-904-0524 Web site |
| C and H | 2176 East Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91107 |
orders 1-800-325-9465 Fax 1-818-796-4875 |
After a long time of debate (years). The E-board was given instructions at last years Nationals to incorporate if they found that it was a good idea. Seale Tuttle has been working on this since late Fall and it is about to take place (Actually the deed has been done, but the fine points of publishing the modified Bylaws, rules etc. required for the change has taken some extra time. But... Now most of the changes have been made to the Bylaws, the rules, the web site, etc. are done! It's a done deal and the sky isn't falling!
Often in the world of model combat ships, items
become so obvious to the "old timers" that they "forget" to mention them to the
newbies (Rookies). These items are often important for the Newbies to know, but
not items which anyone remembers to mention. This section of the Allied Web site
is set up to "expose" these items to light in hopes that newbies can gain the
information on their own.
| Item | Question | Answer |
| 1 | Are Combat warships are silkspanned on the inside of the skin as well as the outside? Why? | Yes, the silkspan, in addition to creating a smooth skin, help cracks from spreading from bb damage. It is even more important on the inside of the vessel due to the splinters which are created on the far side of a hit. |
| 2 | What kind of Balsa wood is the best for R/C combat hull skinning? | The best kind of Balsa is the lightest and most flexible. The less resistance the bb experiences when hitting the hull, the smaller hole is created. A test for light and flexible balsa is to twist it from the ends, a good 36" long piece of1/32" balsa should easily take two twists. |
| 3 | How do I determine where 1" below the waterline is on the new fiberglass hulls? | The best way is to load the hull with all of the gear (in the proper location) that the boat will have when in fighting condition before you cut the panels out. Of course, this is also the best way to determine the best layout of the equipment in the ship. Now you can float it to determine the true waterline and cut your panels out to 1" or 1.185" below it. |
| 4 | I hear alot about "surplus motors", where do you get them. | Surplus electric motors are often used in this hobby for powering the ship and pumps. However, by their very nature, surplus electric houses only have a few motors for a short amount of time (catch as catch can!). See "a few of my favorite things" |
Thanks to Stu Whitehurst for the idea for this small article and if any other newbies or oldsters come across similar questions that need to be aired, please contact the editor so they can be included.
In the mail group, there was a discussion of methods of holding down the
bilge (sump) pump in the boat and Pav mentioned his hold down system and someone
else asked if there was a picture available. Since pictures can not be sent
through the mail groups, I said that such items could be sent to me privately
(hopefully with some verbage to explain what is being seen). Below is the
result, the first picture of Pav's Hold down to see the web.
From Pav: To Descirbe what you see, I built a bass/plywood box, screened at
the fore and aft ends.The pump fits in the box and is secured with a plywood
piece that sides into a slot on top. Sorta like a guillotene(?) The pump can be
removed for cleaning very quickly and easily and its double screens,the box and
the pump inlet, prevent clogs.
O-ring for CO2 tank needle valve -- #60
O-ring for Cannon Breach -- #36
O-ring for Pressure Regulator to tank connection -- #9
Part number for Kip solinoids: Kip's part # 241314-06, orifice 3/32, volts 6vdc
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