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  1. cog
    Depends on the tickness of the brass. For strong joins: silver solder (wire or paste, paste is easier sometimes), else solder iron with solder. I can solder wih a torch upto (or is it down to) 0.2mm brass wire with silver solder paste. Most will use the solder iron as it is very easy to burn the brass away ... You'll have to try and find out what works for you.
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    Glad to hear you can manage with wire. Silver solder is expensive enough not to waste it! Looks spiffy
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    Looks marvelous, Mark. Did you use wire or paste to solder?
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    If you wear a pair of these you probably will be
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    Darn, I mixed up rotational direction, clockwise would push it backwards (like I am presently )
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    Looks promissing,. Mike. You don't need to scrap it, just send it over
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    "I've skinned the Main Keel" ... what a pitty to take it all off again ... it looked so good ...
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    rather black ... you don't prime? (just curious)
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    A serrated shield, nice touch. Stay well, take care of that cold Robin
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    What is causing the uncertainty? So far you have slid quite a few ships in different ssized bottles ... I would expect you slide this one in just as smoothly ...
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    You will, I know you will ... just don't squeeze it in You might try a bottle with a wide neck ..
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    I don't think so. I think you are trying to see how you can best get it in it's bottle
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    Right you are Mike. The high side should be on the left when you are in front of it (when the prop is in the top of it's circle). Or you have to make it spin counter clockwise as alternative ...
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    That last picture with the name is quite good though. The black stern sets it off beautiful. You are on roll Igor. Looking really wonderful
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    Quite butts. In graphite you've got H for the hard spectrum and B for the soft it goes from H9 to B9 (European) The softer the fuller the colour, which means e.g. if you have an ordinairy graphite pencil B6 will turn out very dark, nearly black without much pressure and H, HB are general use pencil hardnesses. You get a greyish colour. Furthermore, the harder ones may scratch the surface, whilst the softerones fill in imperfections. A limited reference table US vs European: US #0 EU 2B #1 B #2 HB #2½ F #3 H #4 2H
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    That seems to be a real soft pencil, Robin ... something like B4, B6 ?
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    Thanks, Jan. Still needs some light grey, wooden decking, a conning tower and some varnish ... nearly there
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    Thanks Pat, I hope it does ... there is but one way to find out ... Still busy with the grandchild's (deck) furniture ? Enjoy it while you can
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    A mere educational distraction RGL ... needed the practice on the railing ...
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    Thanks mr Bunny ... you could call it that ... however, you haven't seen the full brass tripple AA's yet ... I wonder what you will call those to build ... Yard work done after the twirly winds ?
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    Yep, the sub is to sink the battleship Denis Focus .. now that is a real challenge. I keep them focused on the small parts, than I do not need to refocus
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    Front row ... after your research, I am now prepped to follow the actual work ...
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    I have been working on and of this kit. For the content of the box and another build of this same kit I refer you to Piet's marvelous build of this same submarine. I have replaced a few parts in the box: Most of the PE as that was to crude to my taste, and I since I had redundant PE from Musashi, I have used some of that. Whilst sanding the hull, I broke the bollards, so I had some replacing to do, rather easy ... just drill a few 0.2 mmm holes and insert some brass rod, in the end I replaced them all ... Added Primer First paint layers A wee bit more work ... Cheers (The copy right notice has been added programatically so it does sometimes "interfere" with the view)
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    You keep on choosing models where you have to sand ... glutton for punishment ... a wee bit late, but still some more progress to folow ... looking good so far

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