Re: wet motors

[DANIMATION-at-aol.com]

I race electric boats so I might be able to help out here. The water wont hurt the motors, but it will wear out the brushes if you run them submerged for very long, it's also a great way to break in brushes, run the motor with the brushes submerged for 30 seconds to a minute. If the motor gets wet, soak it in alcohol, then blow it out with compressed air, the cans for cleaning computers is handy in the field. I use corrosion X on all my electronics before the boat hits the water. They are also in sealed compartments in the boat or protected inside a balloon. If they get wet, do the same thing I explained with the motor.

If you think that the battery(s) might get wet, try and seal them as well, I have had a few dead shorts in the past.

In a message dated 6/9/2004 8:39:14 AM Pacific Standard Time, nhoke-at-nksd.wednet.edu writes:


> f you soak the motors in WD-40 first will they still rust if exposed to
> water?
>
> There are a lot of warship modeling clubs around where the players/hobbyists
> shoot at each others' warships (several feet long scale models) with bb guns
> in the ship's turrets. They make their hulls intentionally thin so enough
> rounds
> in the right places will sink a ship, I guess the game is no fun if there's
> not
> boats sinking. I've looked at the websites and it seems that water damage
> to the electronics inside is no big deal, they just patch the hulls, get out
> a hair dryer to dry the inside, and send them back out into battle.
>
>
> N!ck