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Haliburton
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Haliburton reacted to lehmann in Rikon 70-100 woodworking mini-lathe
The Taig lathe is easy and fast to change from metal to wood and vise versa. First, just slide off the tail-stock. The carriage for metal working and the tool rest mounts for woodworking just slide on/off on the dove-tail base.
There is a wide range of speeds that can be quickly changed on the stepped pulley from the motor. The Taig web site lists 520-5200 rpm.
The gibs on the metal working carriage can be set up quite tight without any sticking for the whole range of travel, so the setup is very rigid. As for the rigidity of the base, I used my circular saw setup to cut some nylon sheet a few weeks ago - a tough cut - but, even when the belt was slipping there was no vibration or chatter.
Length of the bed is 15 inches, but the distance between centers is 9.75 inches.
As for the reference to alchemy, the lathe cannot covert wood into metal, but it does transform base square stock to perfect rounds.
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Haliburton got a reaction from EricWilliamMarshall in Rikon 70-100 woodworking mini-lathe
Hi Mark, on-line, Lee Valley has a taig miniature lathe which can be bought in either a wood or metal configuration (same price). You can then buy the accessories to change the configuration depending on which one you started with. Based on your note however I wonder if this is a situation where the twig unit doesn't do either wood or metal very well. Scott
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Haliburton got a reaction from mtaylor in Rikon 70-100 woodworking mini-lathe
Hi Lehman, it looks like the bed for the taig is 15 inches? Is it easy to convert wood to metal?
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Haliburton got a reaction from Canute in Rikon 70-100 woodworking mini-lathe
Hi Lehman, it looks like the bed for the taig is 15 inches? Is it easy to convert wood to metal?
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Haliburton got a reaction from mtaylor in Rikon 70-100 woodworking mini-lathe
Thanks Nirvana for getting back to me - Scott
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Haliburton got a reaction from Landlubber Mike in workshop floor material
If you are applying epoxy in your basement, be cautious about ventilation when applying and possible sources of ignition (water heater/furnace).
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Haliburton got a reaction from Canute in Rikon 70-100 woodworking mini-lathe
Thanks Nirvana for getting back to me - Scott
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Haliburton got a reaction from thibaultron in Arrow by mikiek - FINISHED - Amati - 1:55 scale - American Gunboat
Do you have a scroll saw? I wonder if that would be easier. Scott
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Haliburton reacted to mikiek in Arrow by mikiek - FINISHED - Amati - 1:55 scale - American Gunboat
I can give that a try Scott. If I could use a jewelers saw that might work as well. Maybe a good chance to practice.
I am going to have to replace 3 pieces somehow as I have already destroyed them.
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Haliburton got a reaction from Nirvana in Arrow by mikiek - FINISHED - Amati - 1:55 scale - American Gunboat
Do you have a scroll saw? I wonder if that would be easier. Scott
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Haliburton reacted to mikiek in Arrow by mikiek - FINISHED - Amati - 1:55 scale - American Gunboat
Upper decking is laid. Color is still questionable but I will wait until tomorrow to see what the stain looks like when it is completely dry.
Normally for a strake, I like to cut a stick into pieces and lay those as individual planks. At the bow & stern this didn't come into play as those are all short pieces. I did not do it on the central beam either as that will have quite a few covers for what I suppose would be storage. Short planks would have been laid in between them not staggered. I could have cut planks for the rails but I had already put down 2 whole sticks before I realized I should have cut them. The rails will be fairly busy with little items so it probably won't be noticeable. Planking around the big holes was the only real challenge. I forgot I had a set of riffler files, so when I finally pulled them out it was easier to file the round edge.
Still have some hull fairing to do. As suggested by Joel, I added some "padding" to the false bulwarks. Now I can sand a little more aggressively.
BTW - there is another piece to the bulwarks that will sit on the upper deck. I'll do a better job of lining these up.
Hull planking is supposed to come next but I have a bad feeling about the foot rails not being correct - too high - so I will continue on with the upper deck for now.
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Haliburton got a reaction from Nirvana in Arrow by mikiek - FINISHED - Amati - 1:55 scale - American Gunboat
Hi Mike, wow you are making great progress on this. I recall in another build log some discussion about the fact that there are no oars. Are you going to scratch some up? Scott
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Haliburton got a reaction from thibaultron in Arrow by mikiek - FINISHED - Amati - 1:55 scale - American Gunboat
Mike, maybe you can experiment with a different stain or a stain pen to even it out a bit, or maybe some surface sanding to lighten the dark areas? Scott
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Haliburton got a reaction from Nirvana in Arrow by mikiek - FINISHED - Amati - 1:55 scale - American Gunboat
Mike, maybe you can experiment with a different stain or a stain pen to even it out a bit, or maybe some surface sanding to lighten the dark areas? Scott
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Haliburton got a reaction from mtaylor in Arrow by mikiek - FINISHED - Amati - 1:55 scale - American Gunboat
Hi Mike, wow you are making great progress on this. I recall in another build log some discussion about the fact that there are no oars. Are you going to scratch some up? Scott
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Haliburton got a reaction from Jack12477 in Arrow by mikiek - FINISHED - Amati - 1:55 scale - American Gunboat
Hi Mike, wow you are making great progress on this. I recall in another build log some discussion about the fact that there are no oars. Are you going to scratch some up? Scott
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Haliburton reacted to mikiek in Arrow by mikiek - FINISHED - Amati - 1:55 scale - American Gunboat
Welcome Joel and a great idea. I was getting concerned that the entire hull was getting smaller. Once again, me trying to make things complicated.
Joe - Welcome also. That's interesting. McDonough built a number of galleys - Allen, Burrows and 4 others. They found a galley downstream from Eagle and Linnet and it is believed to be Allen. So they have quite a bit of info. I'd be interested to know where any info (specs or design) on Burrows is. I would imagine since they were built at the same time they would be fairly similar. There was some discussion earlier in this log as to whether the cutwater in the kit is accurate. From what I have read about the Allen excavation the stem was not complete, so we may never know. When they drew up the plans based on the wreckage the stem had no protrusion forward like the kit does.
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Haliburton reacted to jwvolz in Arrow by mikiek - FINISHED - Amati - 1:55 scale - American Gunboat
Nice start Mike.
I've heard conjecture that the kit is a representation of the Burrows, which was one of McDonough's row galleys on Champlain. Arrow was a mis-translation from what I recall from somewhere...
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Haliburton reacted to jbshan in Arrow by mikiek - FINISHED - Amati - 1:55 scale - American Gunboat
If the deck edge seems a nice fair curve, perhaps the solution is to pad out where needed on the bulkheads to match the deck edge. Add a shape like this: (( to the bulkhead and sand back to get a nice curve.
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Haliburton reacted to Worldway in Storing and Sorting Wood Strips
I'm close to finishing my first build and although my sorted wood worked well, I found out later that my company uses a lot of paper (for the CAD machine). And lo and behold they have perfect 24" x 2" tubes that holds the roll of paper. So they gave me a bunch and I find this is perfect. I've since repurposed my first idea.
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Haliburton reacted to mikiek in Arrow by mikiek - FINISHED - Amati - 1:55 scale - American Gunboat
Here's a look at the deck section after "bending" it.
However I could not get the edge in line with the edge of the side piece of decking so I cheated. Added a brace to the side piece that will go under the bent corner of the bow piece. They'll be nice and flush that way. A few pix may explain it better.
So here's how the decking ended up. All of that will be planked.
I guess I did not grasp the concept of those false bulkhead pieces. I glued them down for support of the deck not realizing they are really supposed to be the extension of the frame pieces down below. It's going to take a lot of sanding to round all that out. As you can see some of those bottom frame pieces don't even extend out to the edge of the lower deck.
No matter. It all needed some serious fairing up anyway.
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Haliburton got a reaction from Canute in Rikon 70-100 woodworking mini-lathe
Thanks very much John(s). texxan5 John, I'm still doing research but will let you know if I end up wanting to go the Proxxon route. Scott
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Haliburton got a reaction from Canute in Rikon 70-100 woodworking mini-lathe
Thanks Per - will check them out. Lots of positive feedback on the site for the proxxon db250 too.
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