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I am at the stage of installing the rudder. Ship is the Lively from the Lumberyard. The fittings are very flexible and I am not sure what is the best way to proceed. Do you install gudgeon first, then mach up the rudder or do you glue both together and attach? Also, what is the best adhesive? Epoxy, CA, etc. The fittings are blackened and the hull is painted and poly varnished.
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My AL San Francisco II comes with a piece of brass wire and some brass strips to make the pintles and gudgeons of the rudder’s hinging mechanism. No matter how hard I try, once the brass strip is crimped around a piece of wire to make the pintle the whole thing just becomes too big. The pintle sticks out a mile behind the rudder – you can fit a bus in-between the rudder and the transom. Any advice on how to make my own pintles and gudgeons (on a 1:96 scale) will be appreciated (method, tips, tricks, jigs, special tools… anything). And out of curiosity, did the way the rudder was hinged vary much over the centuries?
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