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    I'm impressed with what you have accomplished
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    this shows the frames in place, now the fun begins with lots of sanding, I didnt pop these out of a laser cut board . I had to transfer the plan of thr frame to the plywood, cut out the free form of the frame, now each one will be sanded to exact fit.
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    Think I got it , thanks
  4. Alex-Ks1
    Could one of the " in charge " people please put the correct spelling n the topic heading , I can't seem to figure out how . Thanks
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    I placed the cut out frame plans on the plywood in a up and down pattern to see if they all fit, they do . So one 4X8 X 5/8 in , ft of ply wood made the hull frame work ,
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    I started cutting the frames. they are only free forms now, after all are done i will sand and fit for correct fitment . Im running out of plywood, but will have just enough for all the frames . lots of saw dust and scrap pieces
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    There is a product for removing oil , grease , silicone , and any waxs off any surface . I use it , It won't harm the wood or any surface , any auto paint store sells it ,, IT WORKS. Wipe on with one rag ,wipe off with another rag . Just my two cents
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    At this point I went back to the lumber yard for another sheet of plywood, there just as bad as the one I bought. So I have to use what I have. I have the keep on and clapmed in place and I made a 3 ft long clamp to hold the hull upright when working on it, and it keeps the wood str8 . it wont warp this way.
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    I try and buy good brand name tools for my shop and the models I make, I ordered a battery Dremel tool, I got it the other day and was using it and the battery fell out of the handle !. I put it back in and it fell out, the tabs that hold the battery in place are to weak to hold it in place, Amazon will take it back and give me a refund. Just to show, there is NO QUALITY CONTROLL in china for any product. As they say garbage in , garbage out . Now if you want a real scare. Cadillac 4 and 6 cylinder drive trains are made in China, Wow Im going out and spent 65K$ on chinese carp . If you want to buy auto parts from E bay,,,, 98% of everything on sale is from China . I have no farther comment on that.
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    Right now, just about every tool for sale in the US comes from China, Snap-on , Mac, matco, and craftsman, all chinese . I searched high and low for a real spry gun made in the US, My Devillis fell off my bench and broke, of 15 years You better think about it again, it may be assembled here, but its parts come from China. The one I bought was from Germany, it cost 600$. . Im very satisfied with it. The crap from china would spit , couldn't hold a spray pattern, just junk. The US manufacturing sector sold out to the chi coms for the almighty BUCK . The air tools I have are just as bad, they last about a year then you through them away. I have a REAL Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench from the late 60s, still works like new . The Jig saw I bought for making this model lasted about 3 hours, a B&D, cutting the plywood caused it to start smoking, It's in the trash can. I'll stop now, before I get on my soap box.
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    The one I bought did not have a water trap on it, I guess its sold separate here, any way I brought it back since it never did work.
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    I figure it to be about 1:7
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    at this point I have the center section cut. and the keel and stem and sternpost. The plywood was so bad its causing me real grief, there are voids and loose layers, so I have to force glue in the layers and clap it down, the keel broke because of a rotten knot that was hiding under the first and last layer of ply. I will make a piece to fit in, I put the rabbit cut in the bottom with a air disk grinder, and 40 grit disks, it took about 30 seconds on each side.
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    just some advice from a car painter of 40 years, Put an oil/ water Seperator in line with the regulator to your hose, you will be surprised how much water these compressors make for their size. water /oil in a spray system kills paint jobs
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    I got my plywood 5/8 inch thick, and did plotting of the shape of hull center and keel . Its a rough cut now, the fine cuts will be tomorrow, and I bought a new ply wood blade for my 7,1/4 inch circular saw , naturally from ACE hardware its from china. no curff on the teeth, and in one pass it burnt up, it got red hot. I guess you get what you pay for . you can get an idea of the size by my saw on the table,
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    roger that....
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    I had the plans blown up 350 %. I will have to buy 5/8-inch-thick plywood and 1/4 inch 4X8 ft sheets. The lumber yard didnt have marine plywood, this is Kansas . After the hull is made I put heavy epoxy paint inside the hull covering everything and lead weights for ballast, all my builds are watertight and will float. More to come with photos .
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    Thanks, I dont know what the problem is . so how do I add to this build, same way?. and I dont know how the photo got turned upside down . its Ok in my photo area.
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    I have tried Ad nauseam to post in the scratch-built area. It won't let me so I will do it here, untill a moderator can move it to the right area. or remove it all together. I am building the US Brig Niagra , from scratch, This isn't your daddy's bathtub floater, it will end up being about 8 ft in total length. most everything I will have to make by hand, but I have a full machine shop to make the Iron work . and a 3D printer to do other tasks.. This is the first sheet of plans , laid out on my 10 ft long work table
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    that compressor is the same thing I bought from a company called Harbor Freight. It never worked. they sell everything from China. I brought it back, a 22 mile drive from my shop, and politely got another one on return. I asked then to plug it in, they did with a big smile, and that one started making lots of rattling noise, They said "we have 3 more you can try before we give you a refund" . It seems every time I buy anything made in China is crap. I I bought a air valve splitter for my shop compressor, and ran it to my modeling work bench on a pressure regulator and water Seperator. Now I have a dedicated air supply for my air tools . The shop compressor is a 10 HP, 110 gal air tank that I can run my tools at 150PSI, Your compressor is not made by Hyundai , Its made in a factory city in China that sells it to probably 100 different names on it
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    Steve made a point of the wire kinking , true , and it will bend . I make mine about 1 foot longer , cut each one and then hang them from a rack with a 10 LB weight on the bottom end , then run a propane torch over them at an even pace . This way they RELAX , and because I use NON stainless wire it works out very good easy to work with .I'm not looking for perfection, or I'm not trying to impress any one , I do it the way I want , and I'm having fun . The people that bought my Wyoming didn't know what a Schooner was , they thought a large glass of beer .After all I'm in Kansas , NASCAR , WHEAT AND DUST , BTW. racecar spelled backwards is still racecar
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    When I did my Wyoming rigging I chose wire rope , to me it was easy to use . First I found NON stainless steel @1.5 MM thick , my hull was about 8 ft , this way I could wrap a working turn buckle then I could sodder a small thin wire in copper at the ends , Stainless steel won't so sodder . You have to take in account after time the wire will stretch .I didn't fully tighten the turn buckles , this way in time I could readjust the wire rope tension .
  23. Alex-Ks1
    OUTSTANDING WORK ....
  24. Alex-Ks1
    11 inch and it looks really nice. My eyes are getting so bad that I have to use a 11-inch lifeboat on the size I build
  25. Alex-Ks1
    how big is this model, it looks so tiny ?

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