The Forum.

I for one know how much work you put into the forum mate and all i can say is a big thankyou for all you hard work , i log in every day but must admit my reason for not posting is i don't think my work is up to the high standards that we have on here .
As for saying the forum will die rich by the number of members i would say its growing (just look at other forums)and when i get the biber on the building board then i'll be posting away and picking your brains so once again rich thanks for all your hard work mate

Raise your game oh come on Rich i just hope that with the nights drawing in that people will get there builds back on track, so come on guys give Rich a helping hand and most of all enjoy the forum

Rich,
I apologize for not posting. My reason is not that I do not like your site. I do. It is not that I do not want to participate, because I will. It is the way images are uploaded or not. I do not like 3rd party photo hosting for several reasons (it is interesting to me, I just had this discussion with someone else recently). One is the smut and sensuality promoted or used for adds on the hosting site, I am a prude (and proud of it! LOL) and I do not want my son exposed to that. If someone knows of a site that does not include all the garbage please post! Second, some of the hosting sites prune photos if it is not accessed for a length of time or a user can just decide to close or delete their account. Those photos then disappear and postings do not make sense with out them or knowledge and reference material is lost.
So, that is why I do not post my builds on sites that require me to use those hosting sites. Can you forgive me?

Now there's a novelty Richard speechless,are you sure you don't mean legless????

Mutter mutter

Maybe this forum needs some new Youngblood recruits ?
Has anyone thought about displaying submarines at the annual Maker's Fair and other engineering exhibits ?
Also having exhibits at some of the schools and colleges might bring new hobbyists into the forum.

Kind regards,
Giovanni

Hopefully they will pass on some of the secrets of submarines before they pass on to the other world.

i think one of the problems rich is that alot of model submariners are old school and maybe they think that the younger members wouldn't want to here what they know but i for one am always willing to learn from someone who knows more than me as my dad use to say look,listen and learn and your never to old to learn

young sprog thanks mate but at least i can learn from you mate so keep the phone close at hand

HI ALL
Richard has said that posts being put up on the forum are low regarding articles, this is my own personal view i have put articles up under electronics and so on yet people have not come back showing any interest or that is the way it seems if i feel like that then how many others feel the same way may be it is because people do not won't to get in to the electronic side of things but i am sorry to say to go further then that's the way it has got to go other wise we will be stuck using servos and micro switches to operate submarines for the next 100 years. Some one has said that a lot of us are getting on in years i my self at 57 years old still keep up with the times and move forward not back, you can not pass this information on to others if they are not going to ask and i am not saying i know every thing i am still learning my self
SUB JOHN

john i must admit that every post you've put up i've read and really enjoyed but do i understand it i'm sorry to say i don't , i'll be the first to admit that electronics are the way forward and at some point i like many others will have to grasp the concept so please keep the post coming as little by little it's sinking into my thick head , but it is good to know that there are people like yourself that if i or anyone else needs to ask a question on electrics then you could point us in the right direction

What I do not understand, a quick Google search will give me the information.
Thank you for the electronics knowledge John

I wouldn't worry too much

- We do have quiet times on the forum. People are busy at the moment (me included). Things will pick up towards Christmas.

- We REALLY DO NEED to fix the picture posting problem. As Treasurer could I say that we should and could spend some money on this.

- Looking longer term it is worrying that most of our forum members are very passive - viewing rather than posting. I wonder if it is lack of confidence? Sometimes I don't feel I want to post my own , often rather amateurish attempts at submarine building (I am not Engel etc.) We need to offer more encouragement for people to post what they are actually up to.

- John is dead right about electronics (the response to our work on piston tank controllers has been underwhelming.) I suppose we have to recognise that electronics is a bit of a black art amongst submariners. While I am having a rant could I say that I am personally P****d off that I still see submariners sailing subs without Pingers on board. A few quids worth of electronics could save your sub! I often feel I have tried and failed to move our hobby on.

David

I always use www.photobucket.com with excellent results and it saves file space on this forum.
The Photobucket account is free and very easy to set up and use. When a forum is used for posting photos through its own server, it enlarges its server files to the point of the forum outgrowing its server. This will incur much more expense.
It seems like most submarine modelers have the skill for either building the hull, the electronics or the mechanical part and do not possess all of these skills. Fortunately the skills and knowledge are to be found here on this forum and hopefully can be shared by everyone.

Kind regards,
Giovanni

HI Richard and tattooed and not for getting David
Nice to hear that you find the posts interesting it is hard to try to keep it simple and try to get the point over that you are trying to make some times, i can understand some people not grasping some of the ideas when RF is involved as that can be a bit like A black art and hard for people to get there heads around, i suppose for myself it comes quite easy with me working in RF for quite a few years.

David said that he was a bit disappointed in the responce to piston tank controller unit i can not understand why people can not see the benefits of using piston tank controller unit as it is the best thing to use for control of a piston tank could it be David that people are worried about having to making it up for them self's but at one point we did talk about making up PCB BOARDS and selling as a working board.

What do you think about me doing some posts of electronic circuits to use in model subs or do you think people would just switch off of course would try to make it simple so a lot of people would be able to make them up for them self's. I phoned Nigel up today and asked him what he thought and he said it might be a good idea has any body else got any comments or ideas what might help the forum

SUB JOHN

John,
I enjoy your posts. Like many, I do not understand it all, but I have hacked together electronics before.
I would be very interested in learning more about electronics used in our subs.
Please, PLEASE, do this....excuse me I lost my composure in the middle of my begging :-)
Peace,
Tom

i think thats a great idea john it'll be good to see how a master of the black arts does it