discussion The'Good Old Days'

[Guest]

Just a couple of pikkies showing how times have changed in the last 50 years !!

Quite how we fitted it all into a boat together with the accumulators goodness only knows.

We have some other olld gear in the clubhouse but no-one can figure out just how it works !!

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[Guest]

The great thing about the old gear is that when the new stuff has long since bitten the dust, that antique stuff will still be working.

No substitute for good old fashioned craftsmanship.

 

[Guest]

Plus i think there is a lot of satisfaction to be had in cleaning and resoring such gear and getting it working again.

When modern stuff stops working the only thing to do is bin it!!

 

[Guest]

i think that can be said for anything!

 

[wonwinglo]

More use was made of geared electric motors for steering etc,the ingenuity that modellers showed to get around a particular problem,also batteries were enormous by todays standards,as you say where did we manage to shoehorn it all in ?,we can be grateful for the advances in miniaturisation,models now can be made to fit into a shoe box.

I still have somewhere a brand new in the box ED Servo,it has about 20 wires coming from it on a big lumpy circuit board,a sure example of how things have progressed,having said that ED flew a Radio Queen across the English Channel powered with a diesel engine ! I think the model was controlled from a boat,the plan was to fly a Dakota across with engine symettry for control,the designer Fred 'Taxi' Borders a mathamatician who drove a taxi for a living finished the model,but the idea was abandoned,by pure luck a friend purchased this model at a swop meet at Old Warden about 30 years ago,I asked him what became of it,his words were 'It was falling apart at the seams as it was assembled with balsa cement,and I scrapped it' I would have lovingly restored it just like the old Hawker Typhoon I did up,ah well,you cannot win them all.