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Der Alte Rentner

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    Green Oaks, Illinois
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    Woodworking, piano/keyboards, motorcycling, bicycling, swimming, and not outliving my savings...

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    Oooh! I have to get me one of those. P.S. Does anyone know what exactly triggers a new page here at MSW?
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    Ich freue mich darauf, die Segel gerichtet zu sehen. Viel Erfolg!
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    Makes sense, if you didn't have a hole saw or forstner bit in the diameter of the inside circle. Since you're already done, I won't bother digging out the photos of the process I used to create a perfectly round base for my poker chip tray using (you guessed it) a fixture and drum sander. It's always interesting to see how people come up with different solutions for the same problem. Kudos to your skill in obtaining a perfectly round wheel with the disk sander.
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    Jon, I don't intend to paint over or otherwise color any brass components. I'm going with the Constructo kit color scheme (see Hipexec build). So, fiddling with solder or covering mistakes with paint won't work for me. As you can see above, Mustafa showed me an easier way to deal with these eye bolts than my method. I lucked out in that a friend gifted me a very small pair of round needle nose pliers that I did not remember I had until today. These pliers will make short work of the hooks I'll need for rigging the carronades as well. Thanks for chiming in, 😎👍
  20. Der Alte Rentner
    The tool you used in the second photo, is that a hole saw?
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    It wasn't until I found a pair of very narrow needle nose pliers that I could use your method. Even after finding a pair, I was afraid the loop would be too large. It turns out that by not completing the loop, then squeezing it closed, that I could get fairly small eye bolts. Thanks for sharing those photos. Your method is a whole lot easier than trying to find a way to clip excess material off the ends of my loops. 😎👍
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    Man-oh-man, is this tedious work. I figured out a way to mimic Mustafa's results. After 4 hours in the shipyard today, strategizing and developing this technique, I'm exhausted. I think it might be easier just to get more of the single eye bolts, bend them slightly and plug them into one hole. The practicum's method of building these out of styrene doesn't seem to be any more practical. I'm going to go home and sit in my sunroom, read a book, and put this on a back burner for now. I thought I was on to something clever with my first experiment. Then realized I'd have a hard time compressing the ends to squeeze them into a single hole. Not only that, but I was not happy with the overlapping straight parts. Doesn't really look like an eye bolt. Second try, without using a jig/ fixture. Close, but no cigar. The solution? Well, sort of.. I have to cut excess brass wire to close the loops on the eyes. A lot of fiddling with tiny stuff using big fingers. Time consuming, but doable. The process is, fold the wire over itself, tuck the fold into the slot in the fixture, twist the wire around the pins at the end of the slot, remove and cut away excess brass, tweak, fiddle, curse, pray, and hopefully produce the above.
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    This morning I spent a solid hour trying to fabricate a single double eye bolt. I'm ready to start considering using two single eyeballs and just shoving them into a 1 mm hole. I know you've shown the pictures of the finished product above, but can you tell me what tools you used to make your double eye bolts?
  26. Der Alte Rentner
    As confirmed by Marcus and Jon, I'm going with bridle port.
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  30. Der Alte Rentner
    Are you referring to the red painted port cover all the way forward? Or the natural wood finished one just aft of that?
  31. Der Alte Rentner
    While zooming in really closely to examine the junctions of the canopies, I took another look at your carronades and noticed the unrigged pair of eyebolts. I'm happy to see the example and fully intend to follow in your footstep, when I get that far.
  32. Der Alte Rentner
    I do indeed wish you all the luck in the world. Having just noticed for the first time on over a year the one repair for a misplaced gunport on the spar deck, I can offer that it does bother my perfectionist leanings. On the other hand, I can live with the bad bones.. What was your reference point for locating your gunports? The MS kit plans?
  33. Der Alte Rentner
    Ah! The dreaded canopies.. Looking forward to seeing the final product. I assume you'll be filing away excess solder and then painting them brass?
  34. Der Alte Rentner
    I assume you used a 1 mm drill for mounting these double eye bolts into the bulwarks?
  35. Der Alte Rentner
    44 holes drilled by hand, which wasn't easy on the arthritic fingers. A belated thank you to Mustafa for sharing the tecnique..

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