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- Birthday 10/14/1952
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West coast steamschooners, Tugs, local craft, turn of century vessels
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I thought I would show my method of making some handwheels for my project. I start by making some rings of 28 ga brass wire. OD of ring is the size needed for the handwheel I need. I had some P.E. handwheels from a watertight door set. I than drill a center hole for the wheel shaft. The rings and P.E. hw were tinned on one side. I used a jig to center both parts tinned sides facing each other. They were than soldered together in the jig. Once removed from jig they were trimmed up and cleaned up.Only needed a few of difference sizes. Ah the joys of sratchbuilding Steve
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Eric, West Coast steamschooners used painted canvas as a deck covering. Many ships did I believe. Tar paper covered decks I would think would be a mess on hot days as the tar melts and is tracked all over the place. Course it may have been a different type of tar paper than we use today. Just my 2 cents worth. Steve
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Wow, It's been a few months since I have posted anything. Well now that winter is here I can spend some time in the shipyard. Have spent some time making rigging for the boom. With no measurement drawings it is difficult to determine sizes. Using a number of photos isn't as helpful as one might think. But that is the nature of scatch building. So here are a few photos of what I have been doing. I like to leave pivot pins long so I have a way of removing them until final assembly.
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mystery clamps
steamschooner replied to steamschooner's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Dave, Thank you for identifying them as planking clamps. Was not too sure on how they worked. Steve -
Couple days ago I bought a small box with ship modeling wood and a few hulls. In the bottom of the box was a mixture of parts and tools. Well I didn't think 5 bucks was a bad deal. Included were some clamp like items. I do not know if they are for model building or not. I have never seen this type before. Any idea's ?
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Wonderful new project Cathead, I will be checking it out. Steve
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Gary, The derrick winch is 1 inch wide and 1&5/8's from gypsie drum to gypsie drum. It's a little over 1 inch tall. Levers, drums, gears are turned ( several times on some items). Styrene, brass, copper and aluminum are being used to make parts. Considering I did not have a lines drawing and I had a couple of limited photos. It has been a real bugger but I think I have the rest figured out. I did not realize you had posted a reply so I am catching up. Thanks everyone for stopping by to take a look.
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