Avi
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Redid the rudder. Used an iron to heat up the copper, removed all the plates, cut my finger (optional), sanded it down, then sanded a curve, primed, painted, and applied new copper. Giving it a day, then will wax and varnish. Bluejacket is sending me replacement gudgeons and pintles of the correct width, but they will not arrive for a few weeks.
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Not terribly so, but I do have this one. Remove maybe 15-20 copper plates and I can shape it.
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That’s a fair point, unless there were a large enough gap between rudder and sternpost, which would not be great for the fluid mechanics. The picture from the museum shows it. Even rounding it won’t help much, without some serious tapering. Those gudgeons and pintles are ⅛”, the wood stock for the rudder is 5/32”, add the copper and it’s up to 7/32”. I’m somewhat perturbed that the guide didn’t say anything about rounding. It’s obvious once someone smart like @Gregory says it, but not before that 🤦♂️ I would like to get that rounding in anyways. But even if I do, I need gudgeons and pintles with wider spacing in the gap. I’ll have to get from bluejacket. As for the rounding, I could remove the leading edge copper plates, and then either add material or sand it down. Anyone remember how to remove contact cement? 😁
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I probably read that at some point or another, as I read every build log that might help. I must have forgotten. I’ll just have to get those. Thanks @JSGerson if anyone comes across this in the future, here’s the link https://www.bluejacketinc.com/shop/fittings/under-water/gudgeons-and-pintles/f0852-1-4-to-fit-rudder-thickness/ item F0852
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No they don’t. Nor does the book say anything.
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Ok I primed them and will paint soon. Never a boring moment. Despite the promises of the book, the gudgeons are too narrow to fit over the coppered sternpost and hull, and same for the pintles over the coppered rudder. Oops. I’m not quite sure what to do here. The metal is soft, so I try to shape it, but I’m more concerned I’ll snap the pieces off.
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I finished coppering the hull and rudder. Ok so I can paint them the copper colour, or black for contrast. Just my choice? I’ll mull it over. Do I need some layer on this Britannia metal before the paint? Or primer? Or just a few layers of paint?
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One issue down, thanks to @ERS Rich I filed the triangles down to more of a post, then used fine drill bits to smooth out the bores on the pintles. They all go in smoothly now. 😃 Now to decide about how to finish them before mounting.
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Thanks @ERS Rich; did you paint them?
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Hard to believe it has been two months since I posted. Life has been a wee bit busy here. Before I start on the gundeck, I’m going to place the gudgeons and pintles (my phone keeps trying to auto correct those 😂) The book recommends not shipping the rudder permanently yet, but to wait until some of the harder work on decks and masts is done, since the rudder is fragile, which makes sense. I ran I into two issues. First, the gudgeons and pintles are of that metal. Should they be finished or painted in some way? Second, I don’t understand how you attach the rudder to the sternpost, or more correctly, the pintles to the gudgeons. There are holes in the pintles, which the guide suggest running a stiff wire through for alignment. But the gudgeons have more a triangle than a post on them. It isn’t something you can set the holes from the pintles onto. I could put the gudgeons in with them facing down, and then just glue the pintles to the gudgeons, but then it would have no motion. I guess I also could carefully trim down the triangles to a post with a file? Not sure. Pictures attached.
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Dang that is great! I’ll pick one up. Thanks!
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Yup. Long time ago though. I started copppering early this year. Is there something specific to which you refer?
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Hi Nic, good to have you on here. 😃 Is there anything that will act as a sealed layer, like a sheath, over the whole thing? I was hoping a few layers of polyurethane varnish would do it (as implied in the manual), but no such luck.
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It probably is. Some don’t overlap, which is why it’s a good thing I painted the planks with that good Vallejo copper paint (real flakes in it). Either way, the question is, what can I do to help with it.
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Ok I am a bit frustrated. With the planks, I was able to smooth them down, especially at the edges, with sanding. I did it lightly, to keep some texture, but it worked. Obviously I cannot “sand” copper plates. They also are thinner and are metal, so there are sharper “edges and corners” that can get caught on something over time. No matter how good a job I may (or may not) have done in applying them with cement, there’s some edge or corner on many that won’t be 100% flush. While the wax did a good job sealing and protecting each copper plate itself, my hope was that the varnish would create something like a sheath over it. A few coats, a few hours drying in between, and I would end up with that protected smoother surface (“sheath”). That didn’t happen. I didn’t skimp on the varnish, but I didn’t get what I was hoping for. I can continue building, but I’m concerned about the fragility of the plates and their ability to get caught and yanked off. Open to suggestions.
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