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Just when the English stabilized English; Americans began tearing it apart again. 💩 -
My preference is metric EVERY TIME. Except visualising something like 6'', 1 foot, 2 feet does seem to be easier. But smaller measurements in metric are a lot easier when using a pocket calculator. Fractions of inches bellow 1/16'' do my head in 🙃
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MARCO 😜 ! I agree the chain is a little over scale. BUT the effect is more in character; to me it looks convincing. Initially these things look slightly incongruous, but by the time your rigging is completed, this will look less so. It's like staring at your nose in a mirror...eventually it looks enormous! The smallest chain I could find was 54 links per inch (you have to look hard to realise it IS chain!). Unfortunately the chap who supplied it has passed and I haven't found another supplier. If anyone knows where 54lpi chain can be found, please let us know.
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Quiet, isn't it.
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That's a lovely rendition of the kit, Steve. I especially like how busy it is and how it's displayed. It would be interesting to see some variety with the colours/finish. No disrespect to you, Steve; but it's getting to be 'once you've seen one, you've seen them all'.
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Good progress, Vlad. What will you be using for the chain elements of the rigging?
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And I'm the dyslexic one! Like you, I rely on Dr Google. I live 10 miles from Sea Watches office. If I could afford to buy what I'd like from their extensive catalogue, I wonder how long the post would take? Happy New year to everyone.
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Good for you, KP. Happy New year matey.
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I had the pleasure of wearing out a R1OO/7, a R100S and R100/RS during the 1980's. Each was a different brew of chalk and cheese. Like the R90/S they all had conventional roller timing chains; not what this kit offers. A real restoration of any one of of these 'air heads' would be cheaper and intrinsically of more interest. In 1976 I sat on the central wall at Governors Bridge for the 10 (yes 10) lap production IOM TT, which Helmut Dahne won, riding the 'prototype' R90/S (which was an enlarged R75). Stuck in one position on an old bit of wall, for what seemed an eternity was very uncomfortable. Every TT in it's long history featured photographs of that spot. But NOT the one where I could have been preserved for posterity.
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Did you mean 'obsessed?
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Thanks for the video, Vlad. My experience using copper wire for eye-bolts and hooks is that if any tension (from rigging) is applied, the copper bends and distorts. Brass wire is more practical. Either way, as you make them they should be soldered closed. Another way is to twist the wire tails together (I use lock-wire pliers - very quick to do). The twisted end holds the glue better. Where you can get access, the wire can be spread for extra security. Happy New Year.
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Lord, preserve us. What next?
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The cabin deck was lined with lead to collect and retain water.
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A very unusual and attractive colour scheme. Well chosen.
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Congratulations, Bruce. Your descriptions and photographs couldn't be clearer. The step by step walk-through and methodical approach is appreciated. Following this thread like a Bloodhound.
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Good suggestions, wefalck. If Kathy has the skill to draw her details in photoshop (or whatever it's called) she can then print onto paper or decal sheet. A word of warning, laser/inkjet pigments aren't very stable and prone to fading.
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As a cadet training ship the decks were altered drastically, at least 8 pairs of boat davits and across deck partitions and extra covered companionways. I wasn't aware she was used at the Festival of Britain which was a very popular event. Where are the photo's that must have been taken? Time for more digging. It's unfortunate that everything on the internet is only there because someone could be bothered.
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I'd like to know how Woodget managed to take that photo (4). Something not quite right there.
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Matthew Baker, the guy that came up with a ship which swallowed a giant mackerel and now this picture of flying ships. What are you guy's taking? Only kidding.😄.
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Don't forget to put darker colours over lighter ones. I'm still not convinced these diagonal lozenge patterns are authentic. Paint has always been expensive stuff to buy and apply. I would imagine the use of colour at that time may have been a purely for recognition and used on broad strakes. KISS has always been a proven system, whatever the field. What do I know?
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Just a thought...... it is often said there was a certain commonality/ convention in the ship world, especially handling running rigging and the use and position of belay points. After all, crew would have to find their way about in pitch dark on a pitching ship in any weather, even if they had just joined a particular vessel. Different periods may have varied, but seamen were a notoriously conservative bunch (for obvious reasons). I would suggest, if you can find a reliable plan of a similar ship to the Cutty, it isn't so far fetched to apply that plan.
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Yards black. The pinrails seem to be absent on the ship.
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I may be wrong....... If the Cutty Sark was so renown and remarkable in her day, how come there's so little contemporary discussion of any kind? I agree, the ship as she is now should be regarded with a modicum of suspicion. Lubbock is regarded as suspect by modern historians. I too have 99% of the books published on the subject and yes, after a while it's hard to recall what comes from where. But , as I mentioned, the overwhelming impression is, there's very little first hand information. It all smacks of a much later myth making process, romanticising what was a bit of a thing in the Victorian/Edwardian era; a wish to embolden Britain's maritime heritage. Myths of Empire. Still, the ship exists. If after all this time, it's unlikely anything new and revealing will bubble up. The truth is, we don't know enough.
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