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Everything posted by KeithAug
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But beware, many are partially or substantially incomplete, a decent one is likely to cost several thousand dollars.
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Rather a good question Tom. I often find myself looking at something on the model and wondering "how the heck did I make that". Fortunately the build log is better than my memory and usually supplies the answer.
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Flying Fish the stem is made from a broken camera tripod, it already had the rack and pinion. Thank you for your comments on the build. Allan, My wife doesn't like the heat and I am a bit nervous about the alligators. Keith - I think I will take it a base at a time. Thank you to everyone for the visits and likes.
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It has been a couple of weeks since I last posted a build update. The weather went from very cold to quite warm almost overnight prompting work on tiding the garden ready for spring. In consequence the shipbuilding suffered. I did manage to drill all the stanchions with either 2 or 3 x .025" holes depending on their purpose. A piece of a kitchen cutting board was used as a soft jaw to prevent damage. A couple of hundred holes later:- The stanchions fit into circular brass bosses on the rail. These bosses were made as brass washers from 1/8" rod. The rail needed to be drilled with .062" diameter holes to take the stanchions. The depth of drilling needed to be controlled to prevent the drill breaking through and damaging the hull. I made a stop for pressing over a 1/16" drill bit. The stanchion positions were marked out on masking tape attached to rails and then the positions were hand drilled using my home made drill press. The stanchions were a press fit in the rail so they were tapped home with a pin hammer. Once installed a .025" length of rod was passed through the stanchion top hole and the stanchion was rotated until the hole aligned with the rail. With the stanchions in place and correctly orientated a drop of CA glue was placed at the base and a washer was passed over to simulate the rail boss.
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Interesting design of tailstock mounted steady Eberhard - i may have a go at making something which achieves the same effect. Nice detailed work as usual.
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Mark - I liked the "struggling to control the spinnaker" looks like broaching territory to me. I look forward to the next build instalment.
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Hi Michael, although Germania has spherical thickened sections on the stanchions a lot of modern yachts have thickened sections which are cylindrical. I prefer the aesthetics of the cylindrical design and they have the advantage of being easier to make. Without the advantage of photographic magnification it isn't very obvious anyway. Thank you Richard, I periodically look at your bluenose but she seems to have been going slowly of late. Shipyard labour problems I assume?
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Eberhard - Thank you, I keep telling her she is developing a fan base. Keith, i don't think so. You can see from the following plan that washrooms are positioned centrally in the crew accommodation area. I think the area below the vent is for sail stowage. Presumably it is ventilated to dry stuff out. I think my wife sees me as the helpmate. In hierarchy terms I come after the dog.
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Meanwhile the hired help is plodding on. She is complaining about the difficulties of keeping track of the bobbins. I did a rough count - she seems to have about 70 on the go and all seem to need to be operated in sequence. a bit of a knotty problem so to speak. But she is making progress. We both have our covid jabs booked for Friday - I hope your turns come soon.
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I finished a couple of deck bits off over the weekend before commencing the manufacture of loads of stanchions. Firstly the final cowl vent went in. It is mounted on a small box structure and sits well forward on the bow. A deck board sits between the pair of skylights. I made the top solid on 4 transverse planks and then used a slitting saw to form the top planks. I counted up the stanchions and came up with a requirement of about 80. Quite a lot I thought. They are turned from 1/16 inch brass rod as per the attached sketch. I wanted to make the task as easy as possible so I created the following jig. The spaces and fillets were supposed to control the position of the cutting tool and to be fair they did. Unfortunately running the rod within the jig badly scored the un-necked part to the rod and I wasn't satisfied with the finish. Plan B involved making a "2 jaw chuck" and a tailstock support (The lathe chuck won't hold anything less than 3/32 inch diameter rod. With this set up I was able to set the distance between the new chuck and the tailstock and then use these fixed points as reference for the subsequent turning operations. Then it was just a load of repetitive manufacturing operations. Now I just have to cross drill 160 .025" holes.
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Sad news Michael. You catch them in the corner of your eye for many years after they have gone.
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Thank you Geert, Eberhard, Michael, Dan. I passed your lacemaking comments on to Ann as an incentive to starting a class but she just referred me to a book and the internet. I pressed on, persuading her to show me. A bit complicated I thought "better to stick to my own knitting", so to speak.
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Thank you Steve and Geert. I was being naughty. I did the prep work and then used my skills to convince the admiral to do the actual lacework.🤫
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