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Hi Jake - two of my boats have dual rudder sets that I think are of chinese origin. I see www.ebay.com has listings for these dual rudder sets which include dimensions.

Crikey mate - that's not a 'roo !

Dave - I love word games and the video you supplied with the gold back-up dancers and Weird Al Yankovic could easily turn a floppy disk into a hard drive. ;)

Delete - made up of "del" (or nabla) which is an operator used in mathematics, in particular, in vector calculus, as a vector differential operator and the suffix "ete" a forming noun often denoting people (eg athlete). So in posting the single word "delete" the member must have wanted to...

I recently bought a used Dragon Hobby "Coke Race" Hydro F1 rc boat powered by a Chinese 26cc CPV Racing two stroke engine. The engine starts and runs OK but it seems to vibrate at idle and again under acceleration more than the similar chinese Zenoah clones that I have in my other boats. The...

Do we have to guess the brand ?

Hi Brad - the chart just confirms that the price of gas is linked to the price of crude oil and on occasion the price of gas goes up faster or falls slower than the crude oil price. Unlike most markets, the real problem I see is that the crude oil producers can manipulate their production in...

Hi all - I regret that this thread unfortunately went from a fairly dry (but respectful) economic discussion between Brad and myself about supply and demand price rises to a fully fledged, no holds barred political slugfest. I still maintain that gas price rises are excessive when related to...

Stolen joke - I thought it was staged until I saw the "fresh Prince (prints) " on Chris Rock's face :)

As an Australian I thought comedian Chris Rock missed the perfect line after being smacked by Will Smith who was apparently aggrieved at Rock's "joke" about Smith's wife who suffered from the effects of Alopecia areata. Surely as Smith turned and left the stage Rock could have retorted with the...

Did he complain about the current price of race gas ? :)

Hi Don - According to your US Energy Administration data the average annual retail gasoline price increased from $2.41 in 2009 to $3.68 in 2012 and then gradually decreased to $2.25 in 2016 before gradually increasing to $2.81 in 2018. It then decreased again to $2.59 in 2020 but has been...

I will quite happily leave US politics to US citizens but will note that US is currently ranked 72 of 170 countries in comparative world petrol prices. According to globalpetrolprices.com the top 5 ranked countries for the least expensive petrol price in the world currently are Venezuela, Libya...

Hi Brad - if we are talking about an economic theory of a pure supply side/demand side market then I agree with you 100%. My point was the excessive degree and timing of recent gas price rises and associated products relative to the current supply and demand situation and outlook. Real world...

David - I can appreciate a tight fit. I had to cut an access hole in the lip for my cowl to tighten up the forward carby bolt with an allen key on my canard.

The whole gas price thing is a sham anyway because the gas (petrol) you are buying today was probably refined many, many months ago using input crude oil supplies which were purchased as part of a "futures" contract many, many months before that. The current dramatic increase in the price of...

The chinese zenoah on the green boat probably has a ruixing carb which is a cheap copy of the Walbro. They are not great carbs but I have found from experience that 1 turn out on both needles will likely get it started and then you can tune the H needle from there. Good luck. PS I don't know...

No idea - but nice safety work boots. :)

Grim - I used an Australian made epoxy product called Bote Cote for a full sized plywood runabout I was restoring partly because it claims to be one of the safest epoxies on the market as it has "lower allergenic potential". I suggest you google the name and/or look at the boatcraft.com.au...

Hi Rich - nice buiding woodwork whether others consider it from scratch or not. I had a friendly discussion with my wife of 45 years a while ago about making from scratch - ours was about making a cake from a pre mixed packet as against gathering the various ingredients, mixing and baking to a...