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Where do I buy a pin pusher in the US along with the pins? I cannot drill small holes in the frames with a pin vise drill.
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Can you tell me where to get the pin pusher and the pins for it.
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Recommended toolkit for beginner
Emmet replied to Niall's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Where do you get the pin pusher? I have the pin vise but it will not drill into the plywood frames. -
I should add I need to know the kind of pins as well.
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Where do you get a pin pusher in the US? I was trying to drill a 1 mm hole in a frame and the wood is too hard for the small hand pin drill.
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Well here I am back again after a variety of miscues and disaster recoveries. I have learned a lot from the various sites here but the biggest thing is the interpretation of the instructions. So far I think the kit is fine. I did review everything from start to finish but the very first instruction refers to a non-existent table. But I think it is still me and my lack of experience. At any rate after gluing some parts and then taking them apart again with hot water I hope I am going to get wise to this process. While I was supposed to plank the stern first, my mistake had me gluing the stern beam on again so I moved on to planking the quarterdeck. I did it in 3 stages mainly because the glue would dry ahead of me. But also because I could not cut the side pieces until the center area was glued. I used carpenters glue. When dry I cut the excess with sharp wire snips. Added a little I have tried to fix this page with respect to so many repeat pics but the harder I try the worse it gets. I notice it happens to others so I will accept it I tried to put this in above but it did not come out correctly.
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This is not really the forum for such talk but, mate, I feel bad about Australia and its fires. Australia has such an amazing contrasts in nature. While I realize the history of Australia has been full of such tumultuous natural occurrences why now? My best to all down there.
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I am happy you told me about this site. I will be spending a lot of time here. Thanks for telling me.
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I have used coutour tools for tiles. Makes sense for this application. I have one of these deep in my tool box.
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Seems silly but I have looked everywhere trying to find a way to add a second page to my log. Does it just happen after adding a zillion pics or is there a way.
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Haha I was named Robert Emmet for the famous Irish Patriot. You must be looking for a aardvark.
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You constantly have me looking up terms-chesstree contains a sheave for the mainsail
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Looks good. I will spend some time with this at another point
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I agree. I am in the process of making sure my tools and materials are kept ready to move. We use cases for clothes and other stuff. A major thing is that many tools I may use I have to be sure I take them to theother houses. I often duplicate but this ship thing sis a whole 'nother ball game. I leave for Florida in two weeks.
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Well here I am back again after a variety of miscues and disaster recoveries. I have learned a lot from the various sites here but the biggest thing is the interpretation of the instructions. So far I think the kit is fine. I did review everything from start to finish but the very first instruction refers to a non-existent table. But I think it is still me and my lack of experience. At any rate after gluing some parts and then taking them apart again with hot water I hope I am going to get wise to this process. While I was supposed to plank the stern first, my mistake had me gluing the stern beam on again so I moved on to planking the quarterdeck. I did it in 3 stages mainly because the glue would dry ahead of me. But also because I could not cut the side pieces until the center area was glued. I used carpenters glue. When dry I cut the excess with sharp wire snips. Added a little sanding. I have tried to fix this page with respect to so many repeat pics but the harder I try the worse it gets. I notice it happens to others so I will accept it. So your handle is vossy. I just took a look at the build on the Riverboat. Make sure you read my mistake about the "bulwark posts" which are really frame tips to be removed later in build.
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What I am calling bulwark posts are really frame tips that will be removed later in the build.
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OK I will put them back in. I was afraid of confusing someone.
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Here I am. I had wondered about the top of the stern. So far I have only put the frames on. I am waiting until I understand the whole build at least until I feel I am not going into muddy waters. I can see from the build that you have run the planks right on back covering this cut piece
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There you go. I have been trying to understand the entire project and by reaching out abut something that was bugging me I got an answer that I was just coming on to talk about. What I thought were bulwark posts are supposed to be cut out later as suggested by Igorsu. I was looking at the drawing and did not realize at the time that I was looking at poppets which are put in on top of a stringer which goes on top of the hull deck. Interestingly enough Amati instructions say to do the quarter deck first. I will take your suggestion and go look at your log. Actually I had looked at it but I was at an early stage in planning. I still need to spend more time studying the instructions ans at the same time looking at the La Nina log. Thanks for your input. I am going to edit out those pics which did stimulate some input.
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I should add I was looking for your Santa Maria post and did not see your name. I saw a couple of Mantua builds.
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I wanted to be sure that you know that I have chosen to build the Nina with a 1:64 ratio. My build is being posted. I am still intent, however, to build a big Victory.
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Thanks It seems in this case Amati wants you to cut the slots. I have seen it done otherwise but it seems to me it makes sense to cut out the slots.
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Thanks I am concerned about the placement of the upper deck. Do you think it is correct to cut out slots so that it fits down on the frames?
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Thanks for the greeting. Not long ago I lost a dear friend from Brisbane. We had wonderful times exchanging views on so many topics. I have met other Aussies and have visited there as well. My contacts with those from Oz were always enjoyable. Have a great year
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