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Keith Black
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*Keith chokes back gag reflex, considers all options including joining the French Foreign Legion to escape dining on Slipper Souffle
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Mark, the Jylland is coming along nicely. Enjoy the time with your family, those together times are far too few.
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Thank you to Glen, Pat, and Gary for the comments and thank you to all for the likes. The main mast is now permanently installed and rigging has commenced. It's a tight fit for my old fat shaky hands to get between the mast and not tear the yards from their moorings and every line wants to snag on something, I have work to do around the mizzen tying off brace lines and around the main installing blocks for the gun tackle yard lifts and tying them off. Before I knew anything about rigging it was chaos and confusion but now that I at this point in my rigging education I find beauty in the design and geometry. I've learned so much sitting at the feet of those of you here on MSW. There's no way in heck I could have arrived at this point without being able to look over the shoulders of you folks. Thank you. Before I can permanently attach the main's main yard and install the fore mast, I have to strop and lash 28 pairs of channel deadeyes, attach, and run the shroud lines. The tunnel gets ever brighter, thank you to all for following me along on my journey.
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Ras, dang those instructions! Now I'm gonna have to eat Shipman's slippers.
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Back in the day gas gauges were not all that common on motor vehicles. I had a 37 MGTA with no reserve tank and no gas gauge. The only way to tell how much gas was in the tank was with a stick. Back then people didn't think that was unusual.
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Shipman, in post #50 Ras said the instructions show the piping from the little tank going directly to the carburetor. I think what you're seeing as a hand pump is actually a shutoff valve that can be opened if and when the main gas tanks were to run dry and closed when the main tanks are filled, IMHO.
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Ras, If it feeds directly to the carburetor I'm inclined to believe it's a reserve gas tank.
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Siggi, they did such a wonderful job they deserve half a day off. Hopefully they don't spend all their wages in the pubs, their wives are gonna need money for the butcher.
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Andrew, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
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Cute little tank, Ras. Lubrication design was a bit dodgy in the early transpiration years. Like Chevrolets early 235 six cylinder engine with 'splash' rod bearing lubrication system. The oil pressure from the mains entered the oil pan via a tube and connected to a bank of six tubes, one for each rod bearing. As each rod rode upward oil squirted out the tubes and hit a open slotted cover that connected over each rod. The pan's oil tubes had to be targeted using a designed jig that fit on the pan and over the tubes where they could be accurately adjusted where they would shoot straight into the rod cover openings. As I said, dodgy but compared to some British sports cars..........
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Mark, I don't like cotton because it rots so quickly. That and the fuzzies.
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Gregory, i've had success eliminating most of the shine by immediately dabbing the CA where applied with a Q-tip. If allowed to dry as is it will shine but it can be painted if you have matching paint and line color.
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I use Gutermann thread, no problems using CA and it paints and stains, for me. Scott, buy a spool (one spool is cheap) and test it. Always test materials before making any type of commitment for use on rigging. Rigging is too time consuming and difficult to mess around with untested materials, IMHO.
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I use polyester line because cotton rots.
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Speaking of Kraken carrots........supposedly this is a real photo of a women holding a carrot that came from her garden....... that ain't right.
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Grant, you gotta stop buying those Kraken Garden variety vegetables at the grocery store. Ask the wife to get a more gentle brand like, Puffin Farm.
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Mast rake for the Occre kit 'Albatros'
Keith Black replied to AndrewHenwood's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
Andrew, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard. See the below, if you go to the home page and do a search you will find other threads regarding mast rake. -
The shots from mast top to deck almost look they were taken with a drone because the model is so realistic. Every photo is awe inspiring.
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Bob, did you check the link I posted in the second post, Cornwall has exactly what you are looking for.
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