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Thank you to everyone for your comments and likes. 
 
 
 The coal feeder body is done, sorry I just realized I didn't add a photo of the table throat. I still need to add lever, gears, rig the lines to conveyor tail, and put coal on the conveyer.  There is a sequential gluing order to that list and I'm still trying to figure out the best way to do that. 

 
 Once I have the boiler's port side fire and clean out doors added I can the glue the boiler to the steel plate. I can add coal to the conveyer at any time but the trick is adding coal to the coal crib without the crib being glued into place because I need to be able to lift the crib to rig the blocks to the conveyer tail. It's kinda like needing three hands to do something. 

 
 As you can see in this photo I got the boiler lit. 

 
 I'm going to add five feet of deck space (0.5 inches) aft of the coal crib and then make the wheel's cutouts. Once the cutouts are made she should start looking more like a towboat. 

 
 View as seen in the original from aft photo. 

 
 Thoughts
 
 The steam engine is directly underneath the pilothouse in the engine room. This allows the Skipper to control the engine without need of an engineer to do so. This means the shaft ran below the boiler, coal feeder and coal crib in the rudder chain tunnel.
 
 The deckhand's bluejeans, teeshirt, and baseball cap wasn't normal work clothes till the late forties early fifties. The photos show a vessel with antiquated machinery in a general rundown condition. Had this ole gal been pushing barges for twenty/twenty five years? Other than electricity, what other "modern" updates had been added through the years? 
 
 I am fairly certain there was a water tank connected to the boiler on the port side up next to the pilothouse.  Water would be pumped to the tank and from tank to boiler. With that setup there would always be water available for boiler startup without the need to start a pump as the boiler water on startup would have been gravity feed.
 
 
 Health update.
 
  Months ago in my Lula log I mentioned i might have an aorta aneurysm stent endoleak that would require surgery. I could never get an answer from my then healthcare provider's vascular department so I changed healthcare providers and, I'm good. I have an area of concern that we need to monitor closely but I'm not about to blow, surgery is not required at this time. This is an answer to prayer that allows me to get on with my life and continue my care for Maggie. 
 
 For those of you who have prayed for me and for those who have kept me in your thoughts, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
 
 
 Thank you everybody for your support and for following along.
 
  Keith
 

Hello,
just a short sign of life, but no great progress. I'm bussy with the sail. My first try with silkspan did't work for me. The bolt rope tears out when I tried to sew it on. So for tomorrow plan B, linnen.
So should it look

And that is the the first try. Did't look bad, but did't work 😐 At least the color is't so red, it's more a red-brown

 

@rwiederrich she's coming along nicely. I hope you're feeling better.

Finished rail and now I’m working on the pump.  
 
Rob

Another. 
 
Rob

Began the main fife rail.  With turned stanchions. 
 
Ron

Finished it up.   
 
Rob

Finished the trim on the aft companionway.  
 
Rob

I thought folks might like to see the motorboat... so here it is, a much better quality casting similar to my aformemtioned RN dinghy, with a fully molded interior and separate parts for the motor housing and thwarts.
I have cleaned up the flash and installed the rings holding the life rope around the outside. 


Despite having a better interior, I am still going to cover the motorboat. St. Roch's boat is under cover and I have no details on the correct interior details, especially the motor!
Regards,
Bruce
 

The silkspan arrived today, so now I am off to make a sail making frame a-la Antscherl!

I got the rudder and tiller attached to the dinghy, also the lifting lugs (which won't be seen once the cover is on) and it is now ready for paint. I'll set it aside until the motorboat is ready then I'll shoot them both together...
I sourced some silkspan from a friend on another modelling site, so once it arrives I'll start marking out the sails per David Antscherl's Sphinx Appendix volume.
That is getting ahead of myself, however I want some silkspan offcuts to make covers for the dinghy and motorboat. 
 
Meanwhile the dinghy's chocks are finished and glued in place on the deck and cap rail, per the ship's plans. I still have to add the braces, but the re-routed steering cables are now in the way, so I will have to adjust the braces a bit. I won't remove them, but I have to try and get into the shipwright's heads as they carried out St. Roch's 1930 refit!

A little bit of cleanup on the rail, and I'm also ready for the gripes and davits to be installed... again, I'll hold off a bit, it will be easier to rig these items once the boats are painted and installed.
 

So there's lots to do to finish the lifeboats, so I'd better stop here and crack on!
Regards,
Bruce
 
 

Interesting research…
Klondike II was launched in 1937 and was retired in 1952. 
 
The S.S. Klondike II by W.J.McBurney.pdf
 
Cheers 🍻 
 

Valeriy,
 
I am aware that the calculations for creating truncated cones are on line - I even have them in an ancient printed analytic geometry text book. But the Internet takes the fun of doing the trigonometry out of it, doesn't it?
 
But where your experience comes into the story is that you know how to do it, and know what to look for to do the calculations. And of course you do excellent work with brass and soldering! That is part of your talent.

That is what makes you what you are: the ability to reduce complicated stuff into relatively easy parts. Most people get stuck at that point (at least, I do )
 
Thanks for explaining.
 
Jan

And now all that remains for me is to make the parts of the required sizes and solder them together.

Phil, thank you for your kind words, I am flattered! 
 
In this situation with the manufacture of a sloping visor, everything is also quite simple.
 
If the part is of a rather complex configuration, then I try to apply the following principle:
- divide the complex part into several very simple ones in configuration
- concentrate your efforts not on the manufacture of one very complex part, but on the assembly of several simple ones into one single and complex part.

Two parts #2 are a truncated cone with previously known parameters.
Using a calculator (online) to calculate the dimensions of the truncated cone scan, I get the dimensions I need.
https://stanok74.ru/klientam/poleznye-formuly-i-dannye/kalkuljator-rascheta-razvertki-konusa-iz
 
 

Valeriy is too modest - he is obviously one of the most talented ship modelers on the planet! All of the great tools will not build a model, not even in the hands of an untalented modeler.
 
The geometry of the "ventilator visors" is not trivial. It looks like he made them from four pieces - two curved ends and two straight sides. Those curved ends are halves of a conic section, and anyone who has tried to figure out the correct "flat" layout for a conic section knows it isn't trivial. Try cutting a truncated cone with specific angles from a piece of paper and you will see it isn't easy!
 

I designed this single piece "visor" in 3D CAD and that takes a lot of patience. In this case the smoke pipe had different radii fore and aft.
 
I had to flatten the 3D model into a 2D plane, one facet at a time (the program didn't have a "flatten" function). That was very tedious!
 
Then I photo etched the part (sorry for the blurry picture).
 
It was a lengthy and non-trivial process that took several days.
 
Valeriy is very good at this sort of thing and makes it look all too easy!

Jan, thank you for your feedback!  
 
And I will allow myself to comment on it a little.
What you called "gifted" I still put in third place in importance. Experience and skills definitely claim second place. But in first place should be the necessary high-quality machines and tools, because without them the necessary experience cannot appear and no gifted can help with this.  

Which reads a bit as ‘for a gifted modelbuilder like me, it is not as difficult as you think it is’
You can tell us that it is not as difficult as we think it is, but we keep looking in astonishment and awe, and tell you your work looks / is perfect.
 
Jan

Thanks, Gary!
There's really nothing particularly complicated about it.
The main condition is to maintain the manufacturing accuracy of the parts within 0.1-0.2 mm. And then their assembly by soldering is not difficult.

How have I missed this build until today?  Another great subject and masterful craftsmanship at every step.  Once again, Valeriy, your brass work is a tour de force and so instructive to follow.  The geometry of the ventilator visors realized as a flat strip of brass (even if pieced) strikes me as rather tricky.  Fantastic work!
 
Gary

How have I missed this build until today?  Another great subject and masterful craftsmanship at every step.  Once again, Valeriy, your brass work is a tour de force and so instructive to follow.  The geometry of the ventilator visors realized as a flat strip of brass (even if pieced) strikes me as rather tricky.  Fantastic work!
 
Gary

How have I missed this build until today?  Another great subject and masterful craftsmanship at every step.  Once again, Valeriy, your brass work is a tour de force and so instructive to follow.  The geometry of the ventilator visors realized as a flat strip of brass (even if pieced) strikes me as rather tricky.  Fantastic work!
 
Gary

Silence over the several weeks make one worry a bit in these disturbed days - however, high-quality sheet-metal work as usual!