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When you dont know what you are doing you can purchase all sorts of useless crap on line. I purchased the gauges along with the portable valves (just to cover my donkey) to set up the Chinese knockoff of the Smith Little torch. The oxygen worked fine but when i tried to connect the gas gauge (LPG) there was no local supplier that could accommodate me with the CGA 200 connection on the gauge. Then i went to at least 10 different wielding suppliers and non could help me find an adaptor. Thank goodness i purchased the small bottle valves. eventually i was able to hook up a medical oxygen bottle ( of which i have 2) to the Bernzomatic gas and got it to work. A real pain in the donkey
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I have been traveling a bit so will complete the planking next week.
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We had some guest coming over who wanted to see my shop so i had to clean it up. It looks so nice when its clean
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I think you are correct. The knee is level with the top side of the beam. I do not think there is anything wrong with this
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In tobago for a week. Plank 9 complete with no major challenge. I am looking forward to closing them up
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Well you know me by now, ive done a video on making these little monsters. If anyone is interested i can send you the post. I used Juniper, waramara to make mine. Next time i take the Sherline out ill try the Lignum vitae.
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You forget that we did this on the internal planks. This would have been so much easier to do on the external planks but the book did not want us to use stealers, so we followed the book. I have to say this is the first time i shaped both ends of all the strakes for the entire hull rather than force bending them into shape and what a difference it made. I was always worried that having to finish the open side of the plank would result in irregular surface causing a difficult joint when the next row of planks was applied, but this turned out not to be so. I found that the hand plane made it very easy to prepare a nice smooth line on the exposed side of the plank.
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Alan, i have since tapered the wooden end even more as i was having difficulty getting it close enough to the rudder post.
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