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I have continued on and cut the remainder of the deck beams.It was a slow job due to the parallelogram shape of the aft beams because of the deck sheer.These are inserted through corresponding slots in the hull.These will be slid out and the remaining deck clamps fitted.
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel
 
P.S.Excuse the dust,my compressor gave up the ghost the other week so I am currently without an airline for dusting off

I have continued on and cut the remainder of the deck beams.It was a slow job due to the parallelogram shape of the aft beams because of the deck sheer.These are inserted through corresponding slots in the hull.These will be slid out and the remaining deck clamps fitted.
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel
 
P.S.Excuse the dust,my compressor gave up the ghost the other week so I am currently without an airline for dusting off

I have continued on and cut the remainder of the deck beams.It was a slow job due to the parallelogram shape of the aft beams because of the deck sheer.These are inserted through corresponding slots in the hull.These will be slid out and the remaining deck clamps fitted.
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel
 
P.S.Excuse the dust,my compressor gave up the ghost the other week so I am currently without an airline for dusting off

Beautifully stunning, especially that stern shot.   I'm wondering the same thing as John about why beams first and then clamps.

Really sharp - love that planking.
 
/Mark

I have continued on and cut the remainder of the deck beams.It was a slow job due to the parallelogram shape of the aft beams because of the deck sheer.These are inserted through corresponding slots in the hull.These will be slid out and the remaining deck clamps fitted.
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel
 
P.S.Excuse the dust,my compressor gave up the ghost the other week so I am currently without an airline for dusting off

I have continued on and cut the remainder of the deck beams.It was a slow job due to the parallelogram shape of the aft beams because of the deck sheer.These are inserted through corresponding slots in the hull.These will be slid out and the remaining deck clamps fitted.
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel
 
P.S.Excuse the dust,my compressor gave up the ghost the other week so I am currently without an airline for dusting off

I have continued on and cut the remainder of the deck beams.It was a slow job due to the parallelogram shape of the aft beams because of the deck sheer.These are inserted through corresponding slots in the hull.These will be slid out and the remaining deck clamps fitted.
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel
 
P.S.Excuse the dust,my compressor gave up the ghost the other week so I am currently without an airline for dusting off

Deadly Work There Mate..
 
E

I have continued on and cut the remainder of the deck beams.It was a slow job due to the parallelogram shape of the aft beams because of the deck sheer.These are inserted through corresponding slots in the hull.These will be slid out and the remaining deck clamps fitted.
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel
 
P.S.Excuse the dust,my compressor gave up the ghost the other week so I am currently without an airline for dusting off

I have continued on and cut the remainder of the deck beams.It was a slow job due to the parallelogram shape of the aft beams because of the deck sheer.These are inserted through corresponding slots in the hull.These will be slid out and the remaining deck clamps fitted.
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel
 
P.S.Excuse the dust,my compressor gave up the ghost the other week so I am currently without an airline for dusting off

Awe inspiring work Michael I have to admit,you blew me away when you mentioned the cam drive for the water pump   I am used to seeing marine model engines relying on a pickup for the water cooling!!!
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel

Gorgeous!
 
 
/Matti

I have continued on and cut the remainder of the deck beams.It was a slow job due to the parallelogram shape of the aft beams because of the deck sheer.These are inserted through corresponding slots in the hull.These will be slid out and the remaining deck clamps fitted.
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel
 
P.S.Excuse the dust,my compressor gave up the ghost the other week so I am currently without an airline for dusting off

I have continued on and cut the remainder of the deck beams.It was a slow job due to the parallelogram shape of the aft beams because of the deck sheer.These are inserted through corresponding slots in the hull.These will be slid out and the remaining deck clamps fitted.
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel
 
P.S.Excuse the dust,my compressor gave up the ghost the other week so I am currently without an airline for dusting off

I have continued on and cut the remainder of the deck beams.It was a slow job due to the parallelogram shape of the aft beams because of the deck sheer.These are inserted through corresponding slots in the hull.These will be slid out and the remaining deck clamps fitted.
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel
 
P.S.Excuse the dust,my compressor gave up the ghost the other week so I am currently without an airline for dusting off

I have continued on and cut the remainder of the deck beams.It was a slow job due to the parallelogram shape of the aft beams because of the deck sheer.These are inserted through corresponding slots in the hull.These will be slid out and the remaining deck clamps fitted.
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel
 
P.S.Excuse the dust,my compressor gave up the ghost the other week so I am currently without an airline for dusting off

I have continued on and cut the remainder of the deck beams.It was a slow job due to the parallelogram shape of the aft beams because of the deck sheer.These are inserted through corresponding slots in the hull.These will be slid out and the remaining deck clamps fitted.
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel
 
P.S.Excuse the dust,my compressor gave up the ghost the other week so I am currently without an airline for dusting off

I have continued on and cut the remainder of the deck beams.It was a slow job due to the parallelogram shape of the aft beams because of the deck sheer.These are inserted through corresponding slots in the hull.These will be slid out and the remaining deck clamps fitted.
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel
 
P.S.Excuse the dust,my compressor gave up the ghost the other week so I am currently without an airline for dusting off

Hello Nigel , thank you for your encouragement words, your tips and also for your likes.
 
Regards
Dimitris

Excellent work Dimitris!!!!!!
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel

Hello,
thank you very much for your kind words and the comments.
Here I show the continuation of rigging the carronades.

 

Ed, thank you, your comment means a great deal to me.
 
this evening I am having a hard time wiping the silly grin off my face.
 
Beginning cuts
 

 
Half a day later the last tooth cut
 

 
Back to the lathe for some rough shaping
 

 
I ground up a bit of a form tool to get the curved recess better.
 

 
After parting it off I slipped it onto the camshaft .
 

 

 

 
It is actually on the shaft backwards I have to set it up in a fixture on the four jaw chuck now and machine the eccentric cam for the water pump then it can be flipped to finish the front side.
 
It did mesh nicely though even without any clean up yet,
 
Michael

Jud, thanks, regarding the shaping, the thing is I am taking very small cuts with the tool on a fairly forgiving material for the most part. The way the tools work on the lathe is mostly the work moves and depending on the diameter and shape of the tool the cutting will usually produce a nice smooth cut. Sometimes the cutter needs to be reshaped or lubricated to get the desired result, most of this has been learned by observing what happens when one tries something.
 
When I say that I am using the lathe or mill like a shaper, it is in the loosest way really, as you know on a shaper the tool is hinged so that on the back stroke the tool lifts and then the machine indexes over to make the next cut.
 
My tools are fixed and so the back stroke the tool stays in the same relative position. I am making very small cuts .005 max on the first cuts and backing off as the form tool gets deeper because it is doing more work, think of the chamfer on the corner of a piece of wood, as the chamfer gets wider more material is being cut by the plane or chisel, the same thing happens with the tools on the lathe.
 
The important thing is small cuts and keeping everything as rigid as possible. the last cuts on the gear teeth are repeated over 2 or 3 times without adjusting anything, the natural spring in the tools and materials take just that little bit extra material off in those last cuts, it is almost undetectable but it does matter for the final finish.
 
Each tooth on the gear takes a minimum of 15 cuts back and forth before moving on to the next tooth. it is a slow tedious process but satisfying because I can make what I need. I am 15 teeth into the 60 tooth gear at the moment and have to take little breaks to keep my sanity, and concentration level up, it is so easy to get lulled into a rhythm that causes a lack of attention and wham, a missed action or an additional one that can spell disaster, like this.
 

 
Just some thoughts about the way I work.
 
And again thanks for the likes
 
Michael

Row, Denis, Jeff, Carl, Jack, that you all so much for the encouraging remarks, they take the edge of these types of screw ups.
 
Thanks to all who are following along and noting it with the like button.
 
Today was a much better day nippy (-32 this morning)  but better.
 
I went back to square one with the tooling and reset the rotary table in the vertical position, and spent the time needed to get the chuck properly centered on the table with the dial indicator. I turned down some new stock to the .422" diameter the advantage to using the mill table and rotary is far greater accuracy can be achieved.
 

 
the depth of tooth cut can also be very accurately regulated the depth is .031" and I fixed the quill on the mill so that it could not rotate and unplugged the mill, then worked the table in the same manner as the compound slide on the lathe, in other words I used the mill like a shaper this time. I prefer the way the material finish occurs with the shaping cut versus the rotating cut.
 

 
The indexing was simply a matter of rotating the table in increments of 12 degrees.
 

 
Once the shaping of the teeth was completed the chuck went back onto the lathe to finish the other operations , drilling and boring to 1/8th and cutting the hub for pinning.
 

 
It cleaned up nicely and is now waiting for its big brother, on the camshaft, but i have to make a new cutter first.
 

 
Michael