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Keith Black
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Jacques, thinking a bit outside the box. I know this isn't standard practice by any stretch but, would it be possible to use air-dry modeling clay and sculpt the cant frames in situ, let dry and then use as a patterns?
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Thank you very much, Paul.
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Thank you for the likes and the kind comments. I'm inching ever closer to the finish as I got the hog chains (such as they are) made and attached. Added some weathering The post that the hog chain rod passes through are 0.20 inches high and the hole is 0.15 inches high from the deck. The post are a little wider than I wanted but I needed the extra gluing surface, That is one mighty turnbuckle but looking at the original photo below the arrow points to the turnbuckle end level with the water line. Thank you for your support and for being part of the journey. Keith
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Craig, please always feel free to share whatever thoughts you have regarding my builds. I value your input greatly!
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Remarkable execution, Paul. I love this build, it's also penguin approved.
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Jack, my brother Tom is being too modest, he's the better modeler and prettier. Mom always loved him best.
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Jack, welcome to MSW. Us old hippies keep hangin' on. Glad to have you aboard.
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Thank you, John. Thank you, Phil.
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Thank you for the comments and the likes. I got the steam whistle line brace made and attached to the exhaust line. I couldn't connect the brace to the pilothouse wall as there just isn't enough room in that space to work and make a successful connection to the wall and lines. The distance between the steam whistle line and the exhaust line is 0.20 inches. I had to keep the brace higher than I wanted because I needed to get the jewelry plier jaws between the lines to work making the brace. It was fiddly delicate work, hopefully I learned a lesson and won't get ahead of myself in the future. The brace is made from a single piece of PE brass 0.011 inches thick and 0.042 inches wide looped around the lines with the ends meeting in the middle between the two lines and held together with CA. It looks okayish and I'm happy it's done. Back on schedule. Thank you to each of you for your support. Keith
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Welcome aboard, Glen. Yes, it's been several projects that have caught my eye causing me to neglect the Tennessee. I keep saying yet I keep ignoring.
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Glen, I've used those drill bits in the past but have since moved away from them because they won't fit in a pin vice. I wish they did because they seem to be good quality bits.
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Turkic, welcome to MSW. Your Taka is coming along nicely. Glad to have you aboard.
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Roel, a bloke in the below link used a microwave to heat styrene rod with mixed results but a candle seemed to be the preferred heating method. https://www.modelcarsmag.com/forums/topic/144264-microwave-styrene-experiment/
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To me it looks like copper tubing coming out the top of that black pipe going into the pilothouse to maybe a pressure gauge?
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She's looking great, Glen.
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Susquehanna sausage on the barbie. Yea, that's the ticket. It's a bloomin' mystery, John. Craig, there's only five feet from the water tank to the point where you see whatever it is. Not even close to the room needed for even a small skiff. I think it's a poly tank designed to go into the hull of a ship or boat. For whatever reason the tank wan't used for it's original intent (deal feel through?) and this ugly duck bought it because they needed a tank and could have cared less what it looked like, they just needed a light weight tank. They were able to get a deal on the tank and adapted it to their need by flipping it upside down and making it work. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
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Thank you for your input, Eric. I value your thoughts including "Presumably they didn't have a restaurant-grade commercial fryer in there." LOL, that's funny I don't care who you are. Keith, It does kinda look like a barn there on the shoreline..............you been standing too close to the tracks again haven't you?
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While we're on the subject of leaving things off....... I can't confidently determine what this is. At the start of this build, Eric (Cathead) thought it was a ship's boat/skiff. I don't think that's what it is for two reasons. 1) If one enlarges the below photo till it pixelates one sees something like what I've drawn. The black object I took to be the water tank and it made sense for it to be there because that would have been adjacent to a pump. 2) if in fact the black object is a water tank, once added there's insufficient room for a ship's boat/skiff. I think what we're seeing (the white object) is a poly tank added when the water pump was upgraded requiring additional tank capacity. Poly tanks didn't come about till the 1960's. These photos could have easily been taken in the 60's not 50's as I had originally thought. Whatever it is I'm leaving it off due to uncertainty and making the push boat as it would have been before a possible water pump upgrade. The below is a more modern, larger, and better designed Susquehanna towboat and for the life of me, I don't see a ship's boat/skiff. In the limited number of Hard Coal Navy photos I don't see a ship's boat/skiff on any of the vessels.
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Thank you so much, Brian. You're correct about the footprint and the space required to display them. I could (hopefully) build several of these at this scale and only need a couple of book shelves to display them. Thank you again, Kurt for keeping me honest. In my #303 post I was laughing at myself because I was trying to skate on making the brace thinking, will anyone really notice? And sure enough, I was caught red handed and I find it a laughable (at me) situation. As far as the pilot house attachment point.....1) It could work out where I'm only able the brace between the exhaust stack and the steam whistle line. 2) If I am able to attach to the pilot house it's probably going to be a arbitrary point. I'm not too worried about the height as that attachment point would be on the port side of the railing and resins for crew access to that side of the railing would have been minimal. Thank you very much, Roel. The brace doesn't really add to the maze that much, truth be told, I was simply being lazy.
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Sorry, Phil, I forgot about you.
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Speaking of steam whistle line brace.... This photo shows the brace. The angle suggest (to me at least) that the brace carries past the steam line and anchors into the pilot house wall. Do my colleagues agree? Something like this? You guys realize this is going to cause project delays and cost overruns.
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Thank you for that explanation, Roel.
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