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    The cushions can be made from epoxy or sculpy - painted and until touched you would swear they are leather or fabric - depending on the painting. Kurt
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    My belt driven dental engine is one of my most used tools in the shop. I have a micro-chuck with a smaller diameter shaft that can be gripped in the handle that can hold the smallest drill bits as well as the many dental bits I have accumulated. Also have a lot of the explorers in many different end configurations. Some are quite heavy - for scraping teeth - and they can be ground to sharp edges or shapes. An advantage of having a club member who is a dentist. He brings old tools quite often. The dental machine came from another club member who bought them on ebay and reworked them with new bearings, etc. I think mine cost about $80 several years ago. Every dentist had one of these while in school so they are regularly offered on ebay. Kurt
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    Marvin welcome to the NRG/MSW forum. We truly appreciate your becoming a sponsor. I have used Scale Hardware products and I am very happy you took over from Bob so these great miniature parts are still going to be available to us. Kurt
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    In my opinion Sherline is the one to get. Check their web site www.sherline.com and ad at the back of each issue of the Nautical Research Journal. I know mine doesn't weigh anywhere near 100 lbs - the web site says shipping weight of under 50 pounds. Proxxon also makes a good mill. Check the Proxxon banner ad on the MSW web site. I have no personal experience with the Proxxon. Kurt
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    I picked up a cheap and not at all sturdy drafting board with an adjustable top (for the angle-no height adjustment) at a garage sale - but these things are available at any office supply store. I put it in the upright position and depending on the plan size I either attach the plans directly to the top or to a larger piece of foam core. I can keep it right near the workbench and move it as needed. Kurt
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    It appears to be a much brighter green than I have seen used on thes boats. Here are two, much weathered, that I know have not been repainted since coming back stateside. Kurt
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    Keith: Go to the links I provided to see the explanation from the NRG talk as well as our MSW resident Botanist Marc. Read the materials and if you have questions I will be happy to discuss them. But it essentially destroys the internal wood structure. Kurt
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    To each his own, but I will never use ammonia and I am pretty sure that anybody who attended and heard the scientist from the Wood Products Lab at the NRG Conference will either. Basswood is extremely easy to bed with a few minutes of soaking. Take care, Kurt
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    The use of Ammonia has been discussed here before. Go to the link below to see my post #6, Marc's post's #7 and #16 in the thread. Marc is a botanist and I show part of an article I wrote and gave info from a NRG Conference by - Alex C. Wiendenhoeft of the U S Department of Agriculture Forest Services Center for Wood Anatomy Research at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin Kurt
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    So that means you be there for the entire event - right ! ? Kurt
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    NRG 2017 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS OPEN The Annual Conference is being held in St. Peterburg, FL October 26-28, 2017 at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel. There will be tours on Thursday of the U.S. Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg and the Florida Institute of Oceanography. Friday features 3 speakers in the morning and several Roundtables in the afternoon. Saturday features more speakers and the evening banquet dinner. There will be vendors and a model show all day Friday and Saturday. Additional information and registration forms are now on the NRG Web Site - http://www.thenrg.org/nrg-2017-annual-conference.php The web site information will be updated as there is more information on the events. Some photos from a past conference – Mystic, CT - 2015. The audience showing intense interest in the speaker's words Chuck Passaro's Roundtable on Serving Rope was well attended David Antscherl's Roundtable was on Rigging Tips Nic Dumuck's Roundtable was on Making Scale Sails Using Silk Span
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    Get the Donogan Optivisor with glass lenses - a word of difference from the plastic lenses - much clearer and they don't scratch. I swap out the lenses when I need more power rather than picking up the old plastic lens unit. I think I will just get rid of the plastic version - I will never use it again. Kurt
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    I am sure it was the Badger Marine Paints - Wrought Iron Black (16-413) that Chuck used. This is a slightly grayed version of Hull Black - that is pure flat black. Kurt
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    So glad to see another build log for this model started. Just shipped plan set #89 out last week so there are a lot waiting to get started. Kurt
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    No, the pigment size is determined when the pigment is ground up. Thinning only affects the liquid part of the paint - regardless of being latex or oil based. Kurt
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    I agree. When I get some time I will dig up some photos of these common features. Meanwhile here is a photo of a model I did with the outhouse overhanging the wheel. The glue OOPS was removed after I saw the original photo. Kurt
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    The acrylic model paints usually have a pigment size of one micron vs the latex house paint having an average pigment size of 37 microns. No way do you get a scale appearing coat of paint from latex house paint. The same goes for the pigments in hardware store paints - much bigger than model paints. Note that all the house paints tend to advertise "one coat coverage even over...." Only a model paint with finely ground pigments can give you a scale thickness of paint on the model (or at least a lot closer to scale than with house paint). Kurt
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    Mick: I have missed your updates. Nice work as usual. Thanks for posting the photos. Kurt
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    Eric's correct - I just noticed I forgot the smiley face to end my previous post. Kurt
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    Chicken dinners.
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    Roger: You are right about the square stern shown in the contemporary drawings. The only thing I can think of is that the research done for the documentary film by the History Channel might have shown some indication of the rounded stern. It is indicated as a source of information used in the kit's design. I don't remember if the boat used in the documentary had a square or rounded stern. One thing in the documentary film that was wrong was they showed the hull painted white - strictly so that the boat would be visible in the film. Had it been painted flat black as the data I read before building the model indicated, the film would have been able to have been shot with the lens cap on and seen as much had they used black paint. Kurt
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    Greg: I have purchased these at both Menard's and Home Depot. I can't believe anybody only has 2 clamps of any one type. I routinely use many at a time and have about 24 of this type alone. Like Norm Abrams says, 'You can never have too many clamps!" Kurt
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    Various plastics and metals but have never heard of wood being used. I don't think using wood is possible due to the additive nature of the process, building up the shape. But, who had heard of 3D printing just a few years ago? A shape can be carved out of wood using CNC controlled lasers and/ or mills in a subtractive manner. Pat has made 1/200 scale anchor chain with the bars that is individual links all together as if it was welded chain. Some gentle tumbling and then paint - incredibly intricate. Kurt Kurt
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    Pat Matthews is speaking at the upcoming contest at the WI Maritime Museum about researching and doing up a 1/8 scale Hicks engine in which he used many 3D printed parts. Pat's something of an expert in 3D modeling using it daily in his job as a Ford engine designer/engineer as well as his very fine models. Pat has done presentations at the museum and at NRG Conferences on the subject of 3D printing. There are many process and no single process is best for all applications. Pat provided information on the variety of processes and what systems to use for applications in an article in the NRG’s Nautical Research Journal – Summer 2014 – Vol 59-2 (downloadable article [PDF] available from the NRG Office for $2.50). Pat has won gold awards at Manitowoc for his models that have included many 3D parts while one was almost entirely from 3D parts. The contest rules allow Photo Etch and 3D in scratch built categories when the modeler does the drawings/masters used for the processes. Two of his models with 3D parts are below - the big searchlight on the seaplane tender is lathe turned - the rest of the model is almost exclusively 3D printed parts. The contest info is here on MSW at the following link - https://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/15799-wi-maritime-museums-41st-annual-model-ships-and-boats-contest/ Kurt
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    Pat: Nice work. Did you get back already or yet to leave? Got the check yesterday. Kurt

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