Video I had to do after seeing some Glasgow (Graupner) paddle steamer model boats with inverted eccentrics!
One model I saw even had one wheel set correctly, and the other one set completely wrong ...???
The owner claimed : "feathers just like the full size paddle steamer!"
Well, it does not! A feathering paddle wheel was certainly not designed to scoop water all over the place! The famous W. Morgan paddle wheel was designed to get the steamer sailing the most efficient and economical way!
...and there is only one correct setting to achieve this.
Although not a structural problem if incorrectly set on a small model, with plastic floats hardly the size of a finger, setting the eccentric inverted on a real steamer would destroy its wheels due to pressure and vibrations after a few revolutions only!...
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Bonne, puis mauvaise façon de monter l'excentrique des roues à aubes sur un modèle RC de bateau a vapeur... Vidéo faite après avoir constaté que certains kits "Glasgow", ont ce système monté inversé...catastrophique sur un veritable bateau à roues!....
