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Soggy469 · 03-05-2008

Hi Subzero, Screwloose and Bunker,
Thanks for your valued input, i need all the help i can get (or so my missus says anyway :-). To answer your question Subzero up till the time i joined up i was a prolific builder, umm but that was OMG 28 years ago ( gawd it feels like yesterday hehe) But it was mainly static display stuff, only R/C experience is Balsa aircraft. That said i come from an aeronautical engineering back ground and the ironic thing is i spent most my time working on anti submarine aircraft the P3 Orion hehe. I did note on one of the other threads i think it was that the Engel Akula vent holes have brass inserts so they are all a uniform rectangular shape, (numpty question time again) so does the other Engel kits have this also?? or does ones hand eye co-ordination need to be rather remarkable. There happens to be an Engel kit for sale in Sydney with all sorts of gucci widgets (see us engineers know the right submariner lingo) i will insert the add here and see what your collective experience thinks. "An Engel type IXD2 complete new in box. TAES static diving version. Free flooding slots are rough cut in and this is the only work done to it. Kit is ex germany with 2 750mL piston tanks full TAES control board, motors gearboxes. shafts props and all detail parts including pre built guns. Price ex Germany; was over $2400 but will sell for $1800. Note there is no radio or batteries. Kit is complete down to fibreglass resin and catalyst, microballoons and precast ballast weight. Boat is 78 inches long or 195cm and weighs approx 16kg too big for Aust Post, so is pickup or courier.

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Soggy469 Hi I'm New Join Date: May 2008 Visit Soggy469's Gallery Posts: 4 Thanks: 2 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Hi Subzero, Screwloose and Bunker, Thanks for your valued input, i need all the help i can get (or so my missus says anyway :-). To answer your question Subzero up till the time i joined up i was a prolific builder, umm but that was OMG 28 years ago ( gawd it feels like yesterday hehe) But it was mainly static display stuff, only R/C experience is Balsa aircraft. That said i come from an aeronautical engineering back ground and the ironic thing is i spent most my time working on anti submarine aircraft the P3 Orion hehe. I did note on one of the other threads i think it was that the Engel Akula vent holes have brass inserts so they are all a uniform rectangular shape, (numpty question time again) so does the other Engel kits have this also?? or does ones hand eye co-ordination need to be rather remarkable. There happens to be an Engel kit for sale in Sydney with all sorts of gucci widgets (see us engineers know the right submariner lingo) i will insert the add here and see what your collective experience thinks. "An Engel type IXD2 complete new in box. TAES static diving version. Free flooding slots are rough cut in and this is the only work done to it. Kit is ex germany with 2 750mL piston tanks full TAES control board, motors gearboxes. shafts props and all detail parts including pre built guns. Price ex Germany; was over $2400 but will sell for $1800. Note there is no radio or batteries. Kit is complete down to fibreglass resin and catalyst, microballoons and precast ballast weight. Boat is 78 inches long or 195cm and weighs approx 16kg too big for Aust Post, so is pickup or courier.