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Keith Black
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Ken, thank you for the input. While railcars are supported at the ends, water's support is greatest in the middle of a sternwheeler's hull allowing the ends to sag. It's physics my wee brain at times has a hard time comprehending. Nautical engineering be hard.- 457 replies
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Phil, thank you for your thoughts. I found the below link in unrelated research. https://nauticalarch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/INA_42.1_v18_Press.pdf
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As @mcb noted in post #31 there is evidence of hogging in the original photo. This towboat has 1930's technology so I assume it was built around 1935 but the deckhand is dressed in bluejeans, teeshirt, and baseball cap which didn't come into style until the late 40's early 50's. The quality of the photo and the deckhands dress suggest to me the photo was taken about 1955. That would mean the vessel had been in service for at least 20 years. In the below photo is what appears to be an anti-hogging system. A. Turnbuckle. B. Large Clevis joint. C. Eighteen inch support post were the pipe/rod passed through hole drilled a the top of the post. I assume the pipe/rod run below the waterline to the bottom of the hull. Whether this design was in place when the boat was built or after hogging stated to stop any further hogging is anyone's guess. It's not much of a system compared to the designs we see in other paddlewheel vessels. It's another quirky piece in a likewise quirky boat. Any thoughts are appreciated, thank you for following along, Keith
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Thank you to everyone for the comments and likes. Page #3, post #68 helps to clarify my work in the below photos. The wheels are now permanently attached. What tedious work it was trying to replicate the piping used to keep the wheel shaft from moving side to side. I used 24 GA annealed wire to imitate the piping. The white thingies on top of the post are both working lights and stern lights. They're supposed to represent bare lightbulbs. Being fresh out of 1:120 scale lightbulbs I had to use belaying pins and paint accordingly. They are not glued in so I can change them out if I can come up with something that better resembles lightbulbs. It may require a trip to the basement and dig through Maggie's tubs of beads. Work can now start moving forward in earnest. They used a design to try and prevent hogging. It took me looking at the photos another hundred times () to realize what I was seeing. More on this in the next post. Thank you so much to everyone for your support. Keith
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I can only sleep in four hour segments. I went to sleep at 8:30 last night and woke up at 12:30 AM. I went upstairs and worked till 3:30 AM, went back to sleep and was up at 7:30 so it was all good. The problem is if I stay up and work until those early morning hours I sleep in late and then I'm unable to take care of Maggie.
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Thanks, Keith Thank you very much, Paul. Thank you, Bob. Guess who was working on their project at three this morning? Thank you, Rick. Thank you, Glen. Bless Rosanna's heart, I need to send her a big ole bag of Michigan corn silage. Thank you, John. I thought I did well on Lula's wheel so I was disappointed that the ugly duck's wheels didn't turn out better than they did. But they're now glued in place so all of that is in the rearview mirror.
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Siggi, are you going to start working on the Tiger now or wait till the temperatures subside?
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It runs in the family as I'm in the same boat, Tom. I gave up and went with some off the wall knot hoping no one would notice. The Sophie is looking great! 👍
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Thank you to everyone for your kind comments and likes. What a taffy pull it was getting the wheels built. For as long as it took I should be dancing a jig but alas, that's not the case. The wheels are loosely placed as more work in the stern is required before they are glued into place but this little ugly duck now looks the part. I poly coated the wheels to represent being wet. The buckets are 14 inches to scale but could have been a tad bit wider. I did a poor job pairing the Amati ships wheels used for the framework as evidenced by the port side wheels canted bucket. Not all Amati ships wheels are created equal. I'm not staying up until the wee hours of the morning working anymore so the pace it's going to be a little slower going. Thank you guys for your support by following along and being part of the journey. Keith
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What a beautiful gem. Siggi, thank you for sharing and letting us be part of the journey.
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I bet all the heads were continuously occupied.
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Welcome to MSW. Nice photos, beautiful work. Glad to have you aboard.
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Congratulations, Siggi. She is beautifully built displaying your extraordinary skills. 👍
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Unfortunately those good old days maybe returning.
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Which is/was worse on the environment, coal or wood?
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Four foot sections, they must have split those with wedges. Lots of hard work sitting there.
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Dan, create a build log and post your photos. We share because that's how we learn.
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Bob, checkout Glen's Constitution build page 6, post #167 for a perfect explanation.
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The lighting is the cat's meow, John. 👍
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The rigging is more than likely cotton thread/line, it will only continue to deteriorate. I daresay in another 20 years most of the rigging will be in shambles. The only "fix" is to replace the rotten cotton thread with polyester. If the model is important to you, you or someone needs to see to a proper restoration of the rigging, IMHO.
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And this is how one becomes a ship modeler. It's a deep rabbit hole but cozy if you like creating and working with your hands.
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Welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
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