Anyone heard of the company ACOMS?

[daisycutter]

Hello all,

My cousin who is now 50(I'm 18) remembered he has an OLD model boat and found out that I'm a tech junkie and decided to GIVE me his old boat(any form of hobby RC is expensive over here).
The boat and radio are from a company called ACOMS
and the model is a Storebro Royal Cruiser 40 Baltic,vaccum formed.The boat must have been one of the first few almost ready-to run craft ever,
the hull comes pre-built,consisting of a two-peice hull(bottom and top).

The model is powered by a speed 400.

There is nothing wrong with the model,just wanted to know if anyone had anything similar.


-BigD

[Tony Oliver]

This company sold cheap radio gear here in the UK for at least 10 years in the late 1970s and 1980s. If I remember correctly, it was available upto 4 channels, but mainly 2 channel sets were sold for cars and boat use., although some appeared in aircraft from time to time. It was, I think, AM gear on 27mhz which was the universal frequency for models in the UK at that time. The gear had a reputation for being affected by other transmitters within 50 kcs spacing so was not used for competition work. I think the other aspect was it had dry battery boxes rather than NiCds.

I'm sure some will still be in use, but I don't think it has been available for a good few years now.

Sorry I can't remember anything about the boats and cars bit!

Tony

[daisycutter]

Tonyo-thanks for the reply,guess what I found out?
I was at the local Tamiya shop and I saw Acoms radio sets,two stick models for cars and boats.There was one that looked like the older futaba 2ch surface radios and another which looked quite modern.

The system I have does use dry cells.It uses two battery packs- one for the Rx and servos,the other for the motor only,however they supplied a single-speed only mechanical speed control.I'm soon to replace that with a normal mechanical speed controller - ESCs here are way beyond my budget.


Thanks for the info anyway,looks like I'm not taking part in any races soon!