Keith Black
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That'd be a great model, Eberhard. It could be working a Spanish wreck with the diver bringing up treasure.
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I know the original idea of using the piece of wood would probably swallow the bottle but isn't that what a whirlpool does?
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Thank you, Phil. I'll order flux and solder and see if I can teach myself to be better at the soldering process. Once upon a time I did a lot of soldering on PC boards when I was in the Marines but then we had the best wasteful money could buy. Were you in PCB design? I worked at QC Graphics in Dallas for several years. Thank you, Gary. I wanted to hit the like, thank you, and laugh button all at the same time. Great idea on using thread, I'll head upstairs shortly to try that. The knuckle dragger is the guy doing the building.
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Your work always marvel's me, mcb.
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Nice look, Glen. I like it though I also liked the piece of wood.
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Roel, I love the detail you achieve at this scale. Remarkable stuff.
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Thank you, John. I have an iron but I need to get better solder with flux or good solder and flux. The second problem and the most critical is, the handles have to be 90 degrees to the handle shaft and horizontal with the deck while aligning with each other in the horizontal plane. This pump is very tiny, the whole pump sits atop a US penny. Provided I had the solder and flux due to the size I'm not sure I could make connections with the proper alignment? Using wood and CA I have a lot of leeway to make those necessary alignment adjustments.
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Thank you, Lynn. And thank you to all for your comments and likes, Lula now has a hand pump. I was frustrating myself trying to add the fancy frame work.....life's too short. I'm okay with the pump as is except for the handles, they're out of scale. I could leave them as is but I will try to figure out a way to decrease the size. The handles are easily removable if I come up with a game plan for replacements. I darkened the pump quite a bit due to the pump water and coal dust. It's good to see Lula's machinery take shape. I added the capstan but didn't darken it as much because it's at the bow away from most of the coal dust. Thank you everyone for following along. Keith
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Welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
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Really really nice work, Paul. I know you'll be glad to have this journey end but I've enjoyed the ride very much and will be somewhat sad to see it end.
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Thank you, Eberhard. I think I read something regarding a "French winery" connection but it's definitely a firefighting pump. Thank you, Eric. I've had all the boiler and engine associated photos of your Arabia build saved on our screen files and your build log (along with Peerless) is in favorites bookmarks. What I'm doing is basically the same, just a tad bit different shape. I was somewhat loathe to copy your work even though the hand pump is in the museum. The era is perfect and fits with Lula's owner sourcing dependable used equipment. I figure most of the money went into the hull and boiler
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Serpe, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
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Beautiful place to visit, sorry to hear about the ankle. Glad to hear you're all healed up, Lynn.
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I plan I fully agree with. Maggie and I met when we were both working for the same salmon cannery. She had come up from Michigan to visit her native heritage and got a job in the cannery mess hall, I was up from Washington State. Maggie is half Aleut and half Belgian, her father was in the Navy and met her mom in Anchorage and whisked her away to Michigan where Maggie was born. Sorry about the confusion of her being a village resident of Egegik at the time of our meeting. Thankfully, It's a cannery romance that has stuck for 45 years.
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Thank you Keith. Regarding the pump handle, yes it makes sense. If I were working at a larger scale my options would be greater. At 1:120, 24ga (.019/.020) wire is the correct size for scale.
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Bob, sorry to see you bowsprit mishap, that accident seems to be the most common with model ships.
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Thank you for your support with your kind helpful comments and likes. I've started work on the hand pump. Images of period hand pumps are as scarce as hen's teeth. I finally found an image I like so it's off to the races. This is the image I found and that I'm using as the model for Lula's hand pump. I think the pump in the photo came out of a French winery but I like the look of it. Of course I'll not be making the cart, the pump with be planted firmly to Lula's deck. These are very small pieces, when I have the frame and pump handle made I'll make sure these pieces are vertically square on the base. This is the side that will face the boiler. The hole is drilled for plumbing to the boiler. I made my first attempt at making the pump handle, it looked like poo so I'm working on PH 2.0. The frame is going to be the challenge. I'm going to try using some brass sprue from photo etched parts to make the frame. If that doesn't work I'll make the frame out of wood. Thank you for being part of the journey. Keith
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Per, it only allows to insert previous photos, not current photos one wants to attach. The problem is not solved for me.
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Seems to be system wide, I'm blaming Goober and Pile. The issue has been reported, it's a James H. or Chuck issue to fix.
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Roel, have you considered applying poly or varnish before painting? i've used polyurethane a lot (never used varnish) as an undercoat and acrylic paint sticks to it easily. Just a thought. Once inserted is there anyway to heat and raise the gantry into the position you want? Love the detail but about that fluffy thingie, I can't picture in my mind what you're trying to represent.
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