I am sure this is not legal in most groups or are they but I ran across this by accident. Is this something that could be used in any of the groups? Any ideas on how its done? dry ice? baking soda? Visit this site
They'd be pretty ineffective for our intentions anyways, the only real threat they'd produce (IMHO) is if a ship was taking on water and the depth charge was placed well enough to give it the final push and roll it over.
Would that really do anything though? Aside from possibly throwing it off-balance and thereby possibly rolling it or just messing up it's ballast?
Well, they do have balsa tops (the subs), so i think they would be very effective at killing them. also very effective at totally destroying the model all together.
It's possible that it may cause leaks, especially through diving planes, rudders, and prop shafts, which will eventually sink the sub (it doesn't take much). They are explosives, which aren't allowed in any club I'm aware of.
I thought they were, i must be mistaken, my apologies. And yea, i just dont think playing with explosives in our hobby is a good idea. (Though we can build cardboard and wax ships and recreate the atomic bomb tests with some firecrackers)
at our club we do use "depth charges" but not in the strick sence 2 depth charges are droped, inbetween is a net with a wire on top and a wire non the bottom. as i said earlier there is a fish line net in between these 2 wires, these 2 wires have a charge running thro them on top of the depth charges (they float) is a LED light. wen the sub runs into the net it pulls the too wires together and copleates the conection and the led goes on. and the sub is sunk at the moment only DDs and CLs carrie them and at max 4-2 on a trip.
Thats a neat idea, but how do you ascertain immediately if the sub is sunk. If im seeing this right, a sub could be "sunk" and still run around, because you cant see the light under water, and it could sink a ship, even though it is "sunk". Or, am i missing something?
