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Keith Black

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  1. Keith Black
    Having commercial fished (Alaskan Salmon) you wear catch slime the whole time you're out. You eat and sleep with their smell stuck to every part of your body. You're so tired when you do get a chance to sleep it wouldn't matter if you were cuddled up next to em or if they were in a hold ten feet away.
  2. Keith Black
    Thank you to everyone for the comments and likes. I'm starting on unknown port side items. We know the boat had a generator because of the lights. I'm going to make my life easier by electrifying the stocker and the water pump. The single phase generator is enclosed in the port side area of the engine room and will not be seen. I was able to find images of a pump and motor for the stoker. The motor for the pump will be generic from the time period. You guys know the drill, it's time to pull out the bit boxes. This a Leland motor. This is a heavy duty Myers pump. I really like the looks of this pump, it looks like it fits the time period and the boat. I can't wait to try making this jewel. The water tank on top of the port side engine will be a three foot high by five foot diameter tank holding 440 gallows and weighing 3,500 pounds. The pump will pump into the tank and the tank will gravity feed the boiler. Thank you for your support. Keith
  3. Keith Black
    Yes they do.
  4. Keith Black
    I use the narrower chisel blades as well. They're great for making the cuts for window openings when a #17 or #18 is too long. I think once you start using the chisel blades you'll notice a significant decline in how much you use a #11. Don't get me wrong, #11's have their place and at times nothing else will work as well as they do.
  5. Keith Black
    John, of course I use the #11's for a myriad of uses but when it comes to cutting wood across the grain I use #!7 and #18 chisel blades. They work really slick. https://www.amazon.com/Blades-Precision-Chiseling-Shaving-Cutting/dp/B09PBMGGYZ/ref=sr_1_7?crid=28MGIDC0A8VDM&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1kMe1HqZkT-XVnnLxCePGj0E8doe0YAaOTYhGGP06cLng1g94hGi6mSV5quvUYH-xoe1jQdkkrflNh4HI1wMijfFkkQuDc_f4NS5JmSts7tZDgcea6k-P9X1yJ__a46USwB6gnc5QRGznBBUAI2sejWhSAV5iL1pl0IyIiNxxbUJ7gG5N5ZFBhIkSG7_j1iryPoVcZEPGq8KpPEAH9jPMg2yzV48ebD4X3m_C3DjY-jViioEeoyx_9QYV6EUrO1eG2IrW7U2HoQ2Es8G5ZXzZT4Z2kaBVSFhJ9y4mtB2uaY.UzLAHpFmlBbVfmw1ZicO7eHEEbZkhq2ph5drM6KQboA&dib_tag=se&keywords=xacto+chisel+blades+%2318&qid=1756739594&sprefix=xacto+chisel+blade%2Caps%2C126&sr=8-7
  6. Keith Black
    Are you using a chisel blade?
  7. Keith Black
    If you can get the other four wheels to match the first wheel you've hit home run, John. The wheel looks great! 👍
  8. Keith Black
    Rich, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
  9. Keith Black
    That's some super nice work, Paul. 👍
  10. Keith Black
    Thank you, Kurt! Thank you very much, Julie. And thank you for the entire post, very interesting.
  11. Keith Black
    As my ole carpenter foreman used to "file to fit, paint to match" Nice solution, Chris.
  12. Keith Black
    Thank you, Eric. Other than being a bit larger than 1:120, there are many more PE and 3D printed pieces parts available in HO scale but I'll need to buy a HO scale ruler first off.
  13. Keith Black
    Thank you very much, Kurt. At some point my fingertips aren't going to be able to continue working at this scale and I'll have to go to a larger scale. I'm seriously looking to move up to HO scale on my next build. Thank you very much, Bob. I'm a couple of months away from finishing this boat but I want to build an accompanying barge under the same build log which should take another couple of months, so we're looking at being done with this log about Christmas time. I then need to get back to the Tennessee and finish her while I'm still able.
  14. Keith Black
    Roel, I love the way you've kept everything to the same scale. It keeps everything realistic and believable. Always a pleasure seeing each new post.
  15. Keith Black
    James, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
  16. Keith Black
    Thank you very much, Jacques and John. I hit the post button before adding my text (danged old people!) so you may want to go back and view again.
  17. Keith Black
    Thank you to each of you for the comments and the likes. I'm calling the steam engine is done. I could add the reversing leavers but they would be on the starboard side and wouldn't be visible with the engine room attached. The engine can only be really viewed from the port side and with the reversing levers on the starboard, it's work that to me is somewhat pointless. The crank is straight, there was no way I could make journals and get the nine eye pins (rods and bearings) to align. That task was tough enough with the crank being straight! I get a real kick taking my boxes of bits and making something mechanical. The engine's final dimensions are engine body, 0.90 L x 0.41 H X 0.31 W inches. Flywheel to tail shaft is 1.15 inches. It took 64 individual pieces to make the engine. There's no mistaking it's an engine even though little can be see when surrounded by the engine room. It seems it's like this is becoming my signature, build an engine and bury it. Thank you for your support and for being part of the journey. Keith
  18. Keith Black
    Russ, welcome to MSW. Good to see you becoming active in the hobby again. Glad to have you aboard.
  19. Keith Black
    SH, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
  20. Keith Black
    I don't see any work surface mess, all I see is a gorgeous model.
  21. Keith Black
    Beautiful work, Jacques.
  22. Keith Black
    If so that's incredible, Keith. If I get more than two deep I pretty much come to full stop.
  23. Keith Black
    While I'm marking up photos...... The only view to the port side is through the engine room's bow window. The arrow points to what I thought was a jack pump but there's no line to what would be a unseen pump. I don't have a clue, anyone what to hazard a guess?
  24. Keith Black
    Thank you, Eberhard. I don't think so, Phil. If it the engine had been a condensing/compound engine there wouldn't have been the need for an exhaust stack at all, just a pipe over the side. Note the exhaust pipe coming off the engine as seen through the engine room bow window.
  25. Keith Black
    Beautiful micro work, Ilhan.

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