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NJ John Samba Member
Joined: September 21, 2007 Posts: 2224 Location: HdG, MD & NJ
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2024 10:28 am Post subject: EV Hovercraft |
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This place is located right behind my restaurant. So I finally googled them. I’ve always been a closet fan of hovercrafts. These start at $200k! Most of that video is shot in the upper Chesapeake right here in town.
https://www.vonmercier.co/ _________________ 1973 standard, yellow, lowered, 3” narrowed front, 1600 blo-thru turbo w/single dell 15.4@86, so far
11.41 et buggy. Long gone
Let’s go O’s! Let’s go O’s!
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The Sage Samba Member
Joined: December 10, 2005 Posts: 2470 Location: Traverse City
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2024 5:37 pm Post subject: Re: EV Hovercraft |
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What if I don't want my hovercraft to look THAT completely stupid?
For $200k they should make one that's tasteful too. _________________ Feel My Pain l Sage Ad World |
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calvinater Samba Member
Joined: September 06, 2014 Posts: 3330 Location: 802 The Pointless Forrest
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:54 pm Post subject: Re: EV Hovercraft |
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for that price it shhould be full of eels. _________________ "Albatross"! |
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NJ John Samba Member
Joined: September 21, 2007 Posts: 2224 Location: HdG, MD & NJ
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:08 pm Post subject: Re: EV Hovercraft |
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Yeah, it looks like a kit car on a hovercraft skirt. It doesn’t seem to utilize any space, but that seems to be the case on all hovercrafts. That’s it, I’m going to get an old Popular Mechanics and a lawnmower and build my own. Or maybe vw power. _________________ 1973 standard, yellow, lowered, 3” narrowed front, 1600 blo-thru turbo w/single dell 15.4@86, so far
11.41 et buggy. Long gone
Let’s go O’s! Let’s go O’s!
https://www.youtube.com/@AirSpooledGarage
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67rustavenger Samba Member
Joined: February 24, 2015 Posts: 9772 Location: Oregon
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2024 10:14 pm Post subject: Re: EV Hovercraft |
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I spent a winter in Cheektowaga Ny. Many years ago.
The City of Niagara put on a winter festival in a local park with a frozen lake alongside the park.
The local FD had a couple of rescue hoover craft running on the frozen lake.
Those Fire Fighters appeared to be having a great time sliding those hoover craft across the ice.
I say go for it John, build a hoover craft and power it with a couple turbo charged VW engines. It'll rip on the water, ice, snow, sand, wet grass......
The big issue with hoover craft is, the skirts wear out from friction. _________________ I have learned over the years.
Cheap parts are gonna disappoint you.
Buy Once, Cry Once!
There's never enough time to do it right the first time. But there's always enough time to do it thrice.
GFY's Xevin and VW_Jimbo! |
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finster Samba Member
Joined: May 26, 2012 Posts: 7951 Location: north o' the border
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2024 3:02 am Post subject: Re: EV Hovercraft |
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67rustavenger wrote: |
I spent a winter in Cheektowaga Ny. Many years ago.
The City of Niagara put on a winter festival in a local park with a frozen lake alongside the park.
The local FD had a couple of rescue hoover craft running on the frozen lake.
Those Fire Fighters appeared to be having a great time sliding those hoover craft across the ice.
I say go for it John, build a hoover craft and power it with a couple turbo charged VW engines. It'll rip on the water, ice, snow, sand, wet grass......
The big issue with hoover craft is, the skirts wear out from friction. |
maybe that's due to you suckin' instead of blowin'!
this will get you started https://cirtech.co.uk/ardgartan/Hovercraft%20Construction%20and%20Operation.pdf _________________ "we're here on Earth to fart around" kurt vonnegut
nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect... |
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oprn Samba Member
Joined: November 13, 2016 Posts: 12740 Location: Western Canada
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2024 3:58 am Post subject: Re: EV Hovercraft |
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Range? They don't seem to address that. _________________ We had the stone age, the bronze age, the industrial age and now we are in the age of mass deception and mind control for corporate profit. (The mass media age) |
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Abscate Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2014 Posts: 22670 Location: NYC/Upstate/ROW
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:03 am Post subject: Re: EV Hovercraft |
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calvinater wrote: |
for that price it shhould be full of eels. |
Three posts to that angle.
Excellent.
Do you need matches ?? _________________ .ssS! |
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NJ John Samba Member
Joined: September 21, 2007 Posts: 2224 Location: HdG, MD & NJ
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:19 am Post subject: Re: EV Hovercraft |
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And…hovercrafts have to float. So you can shut them off and float on water.
At this point in my life, I would rather a chopped bug. _________________ 1973 standard, yellow, lowered, 3” narrowed front, 1600 blo-thru turbo w/single dell 15.4@86, so far
11.41 et buggy. Long gone
Let’s go O’s! Let’s go O’s!
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oprn Samba Member
Joined: November 13, 2016 Posts: 12740 Location: Western Canada
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2024 10:41 am Post subject: Re: EV Hovercraft |
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For that kind of money I would buy a nicer house instead. _________________ We had the stone age, the bronze age, the industrial age and now we are in the age of mass deception and mind control for corporate profit. (The mass media age) |
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Abscate Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2014 Posts: 22670 Location: NYC/Upstate/ROW
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:14 pm Post subject: Re: EV Hovercraft |
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NJ John wrote: |
And…hovercrafts have to float. So you can shut them off and float on water.
At this point in my life, I would rather a chopped bug. |
To float, they must weigh the same as a duck _________________ .ssS! |
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TDCTDI Samba Advocatus Diaboli
Joined: August 31, 2013 Posts: 12858 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:36 pm Post subject: Re: EV Hovercraft |
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NJ John wrote: |
That’s it, I’m going to get an old Popular Mechanics and a lawnmower and build my own. Or maybe vw power. |
I had a customer bring me a home built hovercraft. It was made out of lots of thin, hollow door type veneer skinned in fiberglass, it had a lawnmower engine in front that levitated it, & a VW engine on the back with an airplane propeller that propelled it & filled the skirt. It used several dozed sealed, empty milk jugs under the skirt for floatation. It was pretty scary. _________________ Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.
GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!
An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.
Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it. |
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