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About KeithAug
- Birthday 05/27/1953
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Sussex, England.
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Sailing, Naval History, Model Ship Building, Model Steam Engine Building. Maisie walking - she is top left.
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I'm nearly at the end hull sanding. I just needed to build up the keel slightly. I also needed to get the transom to the correct shape and "fix" the shape by attaching a pre-shaped piece of ply. Shaping the ply took a bit of fiddling with card templates but eventually I sorted it. I have had enough woodworking for a while so I am now figuring out how to make rudder post. I plan to make this out of brass. The key complication is that the lower portion (red arrows) is somewhat thicker than the remainder of the frame surrounding the screw. I plan to fabricate it out of 3 pieces of 0.1" brass plate. In drawing the yellow is the 0.1" portion while the orange is the thickened 0.3" portion.
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KeithAug reacted to a post in a topic: Lightship ELBE 1 by Mirabell61 - scale 1:87 - launched 1948
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KeithAug reacted to a post in a topic: 85' ARB by Melissa T. - Scale 1:32 - POB - First Scratch Build
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KeithAug reacted to a post in a topic: Steam Yacht Cangarda 1901 by KeithAug - Scale 1:24 - 1901/2008
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I like it when solution develop - it's so much more educational. Nicely made smoke stacks Eric.
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KeithAug reacted to a post in a topic: Peerless by Cathead - 1:87 - 1893 sternwheel Missouri River steamboat
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KeithAug reacted to a post in a topic: Peerless by Cathead - 1:87 - 1893 sternwheel Missouri River steamboat
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I guess the politicians don't know any engineers!!!!!!! This isn't quite true in the UK because the Conservative Energy Spokesman in the House of Lords is a certain Lord Martin Callahan. In the 1990's he worked in my engineering department. None of my staff were very disappointed when he left to pursue his political ambitions, frankly as an engineer he was as much good as a chocolate teapot. His political rise was somewhat metioric but on energy matters he sill talks out of the wrong end of his digestive tract. God help us.
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Dear Ian. And I thought I was a grumpy old man. I have read your missive to my wife and she agrees you win hands down. I was trying to explain it all to my non techy brother in law. Average electric vehicle - 2.5 miles per KWh. Decent range of say 450 miles requires 180 kWh battery. Decent charging time of say 10 minutes requires a 1080 KW charger. That's like plugging in 540 fan heaters! We don't have the grid capacity to feed all those electric cars and won't have for years. I tried self charging hybrids for the first time last Tuesday and loved the "get up and go". I know they don't solve the environmental problem but they are a load of fun. Keith
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Andy - Yes. In the engine room area without the balsa they of course need to be edge glued, elsewhere the glue will be applied to both the edge and back of the planks. I too think she has lovely sleek lines - it was the one of the main reasons I wanted to build her. Thank you all for your comments - much appreciated. I have spent the last week touring round car showrooms in an attempt to find a replacement for my current 10 year old car. Indecision, indecision, indecision.
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Andy, Pat, Keith, John, Greg, Hakan, Gary, Thank you all for your encouragement and "Little Ben" comments. Hakan - great news re June - does it have a personal pronoun yet? I am well on with the precision sanding. As previously stated I coloured the frame edges as a sanding guide. The preliminary rough sanding was done with 60 grit aluminium oxide paper held on a 2" x 8" cork block with rounded edges. The surface was reduced until small areas of the frame edges started to lose their colour. I then switched to 80m grit (on the same sanding block) and continued to remove the frame edge colouring. I sanded both sides alternatively while trying to maintain similar frame edge sanding patterns on each side. I proceeded in this way until the majority of the coloured edges were removed. I worked slowly from stern to bow. Gradually producing balsa snow drifts. I am about to switch to 120 grit before progressing with the final sanding / fairing.
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