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Unread 10/23/2003, 05:40 PM   #14
thunt
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Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Devon, UK
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Reefvan - that looks like a possibility. I'd really like to keep it as small as possible though as I notice people comment how hard it is to hide a "Stream". I notice Hagen and others make some decorative plastic rock and wondered if this could house it. If you can't hide it, camouflage it!

wedfr - at the moment its just a push fit and is held in place with cable ties for testing. Needs refining though.

bergzy - the prop came from an r/c model boat store.

I think I've solved the problem of the impellor sometimes running the wrong way. When it does this, it makes the propellor lift as the water is now pushing out the front. By placing a stop just in front of the prop it runs freely when the props going the right way. When the prop runs the wrong way, it lifts slightly, hits the stop and then starts spinning the other (correct) way. Make sense? All this happens in a split second. Needs to be incorporated into the guard/housing which is where I've got to at the moment.

Gotta say though, during test it really shifts the water.

Tim


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