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General => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: Tcat on March 29, 2009, 02:53:04 PM

Title: newbie
Post by: Tcat on March 29, 2009, 02:53:04 PM

Hello from Oregon USA.  I am a retired teacher and build r/c airplanes and boats, mostly electric powered.  Just found this site and it is just what I have been looking for.  Presently building a 36" weedwacker powered tug and am looking for info on a steam engine to build for a 17' canoe.  The canoe has had a small low RPM gas inboard for 25 yrs.

Title: Re: newbie
Post by: EMBC on May 05, 2009, 09:30:25 PM

Hello Tcat

I think your American terms are a little confusing!

Never heard of a "Weedwacker".............or of a steam engine in a canoe!

Bob

Title: Re: newbie
Post by: mjt60a on May 06, 2009, 04:32:39 AM

Quote from: EMBC on May 05, 2009, 09:30:25 PM

....Never heard of a "Weedwacker".....

how about a "strimmer"?

steam canoes have been mentioned here before, here's one - http://www.flickr.com/photos/petereed/2935549780/

some even have paddlewheels! - http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1237755700034927251evKcrj (sorry about the advertising on that page but I thought it was a good pic of the steam plant :) )

Title: Re: newbie
Post by: steamboatmodel on May 06, 2009, 09:53:10 AM

Here is another steam canoes
Regards,
Gerald

Title: Re: newbie
Post by: hucksdad on May 06, 2009, 12:03:47 PM

Tcat:  Hello from the Ozarks!  Yes, for our British, Oz, and Kiwi cousins (and any Continentals as well)...a "weedwacker" is slang for a gasoline powered, string lawn trimmer.  Weedwater boats use the small 2-stroke engines made for them.  Very popular here in the US for big, fast model boats.  Too noisy for me, but they are very impressive boats.  Isn't it great that we all speak the same language and still have to translate anyway!  By the way what does "bogstandard" mean?  Common?  Everyday?  Lower quality?   

Hucksdad

Title: Re: newbie
Post by: hucksdad on May 06, 2009, 12:21:05 PM

Ooops!  Didn't mean to leave out the Scots, Irish, and Welsh.  Sorry about that!  Sometimes we in the US say "British" or "England" when we really mean all of you in the UK.  It's kinda like saying "Americans" when you mean US citizens and forgetting that America includes Canada, Mexico, and all of Central and South America.

Hucksdad