Kevin Kenny
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Large soldering pad/board arrived along with ceramic pins for holding stuff that will not provide a heat sink. The silver soldering station is now complete.
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I am just putting mine in through the outer planking and it was a bit of a struggle.
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How Realistic Can One Make Sails?
Kevin Kenny replied to Julie Mo's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
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Not sure if this is what Maury had in mind. I use to have various jigs for the Preac sander and most of the time had to remove the cover to keep the piece from flying off. Also the paper roll would turn the piece when i pushed it through. I would love to see what you guys do. Now that i am using this it would have been great if the aluminum base extended back another 6 inches, to make sure i push the sled in flat. It has a tendency to lift at the front.
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All hooked up to the vacuum system. I don't know why i can find this adaptor to fit my system.
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Hi Maury you are absolutely correct that if there is a lot of pressure when pulling the stock through the draw plate that mounting it in a table top vice helps greatly with the stress of pulling it through the plate. I found this particularly true with hard wood stock where it is difficult to get the raw stock small enough. But with Bamboo i found it quite easy to reduce the size of the stock down to say .030 which means that you can literally pull the treenail stock through the plate without using the thong puller to get down to .020. Most of the time i was able to get to .020 without any pulling device at all, just with my fingers. The technique was getting to split the bamboo and the hammer was the tool that did that so effectively. Also if for some reason i was having difficulty getting it into the next hole, simply backtracking to the previous hole easily solved the problem. I any case my wife would not allow a bench top vice to be located on our porch in Tobago while i sat on the chair in our porch , on the golf course. Haha.
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Sheer Strake #29 installed. I have some friends coming to visit so put on her Christmas cloths.
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This is how i get the bamboo squares split. The dowels in the draw were made in half an hour watching the world cup. IMG_9210.MOV
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I actually wrote him and he confirmed that he was pulling the dowel through the plate the wrong way. I was glad that i was not the only person to film things the wrong way.
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Not sure if i sent you this Henry
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Hahahah
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You will find that after you’ve recovered you can get those down to .020, you’ll just have increased breakage. I now have another draw where I keep the .020
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Repairs to the stern inner counter timbers a result of turning the model over and being careless. Thank goodness for PVA glue and alcohol
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