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I have been thinking of the SPRAY, but is it was presumably lost with Slocum at sea, I thought there wasn't much information on her. However, there was a replica of her, but I don't know on what basis. I vaguely remember that there was also a writer's boat in the Vancouver Island Maritime Museum, but their Web-site is quite difficult with respect to finding particular artefacts. Was it perhaps the SPRAY replica ? After all Slocum was Canadian by birth.
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An alternative to an octogonal collet block could also be a collet indexer for e.g. 5C collets: I fashioned something like this from an old collet-holding taistock from a watchmakers lathe by adding a ring with rows of 6, 8, and 10 (should have made 8, 10, and 12) indexing holes and a stop on the body: Unfortunately, it cannot be mounted vertically, but then I have a vertical collet holder that can be centred on my rotary table. -
Another one tricked ... 👹 ... it is actually a low resolution photograph worked over in picture editors on my iPad and Mac. I outlined the main contours (the ApplePencil comes handy for that) in a transparent layer and using the 'watercolour' function juidicially in Photoshop before merging the two in Photoshop on the Mac. Should really become honest again and redevelop my skills with the pen and brush
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I just eye-ball the size and then try out the most likely bits - they are all stored in one place. Probably less life-time spent on this procedure than meticously labelling all the screw containers.
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On many fishing boats one sees them kind of hanging in the bows from the capping rail with shank in-board. On the other hand, when approaching the ship it would have been probably completely taken in so as not foul or chafe anything.
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A boat with a (vague) 'literary' conotation is the boeier SPERWER (1884). The dutch boat was owned in the 1930s by Merlin Minshall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_Minshall), a british naval intelligence officer, who is said to have been one of the inspiration for Ian Fleming's 'James Bond'. The boat is very well documented in terms of drawings and preserved in the Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen/Netherlands: https://www.maritima-et-mechanika.org/maritime/zuiderzee/zuiderzee.html. An ukrainian colleague here on the forum recently completed a model of the boat. BTW, there are also many painters' boats. A french impressionist painter, Gustave Caillebotte, was also an influential yacht designer and competitive sailor.
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Bench Top 5" Disk Sander
wefalck replied to DocBlake's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Don't know, how you guys use your disc-sander, but normally one moves the work-piece along the disc to avoid scratching marks. So you can work on pieces at least twice as wide as the table of the sander. Of course, if you use the protractor, then there may be further limitations. Otherwise, you might need to look into belt-sanders. -
... but no sundecks, bars etc. - at least the kind of open sail-boats for 'real' sailing I am thinking of
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I am thinking of a sturdy sea-boat, something like one of those replica Cornish Crabbers or indeed a Catalan type that is more suited to the relatively unsheltered coast off Valencia, but my wife thinks more of a motorboat ... Or one of those traditional lateen-rigged boats that are used on the lagoon just south of Valencia: https://www.maritima-et-mechanika.org/maritime/albufera/Boats-of-the-Albufera.html. Would be a challenge, as I never sailed a lateen-rig. Will have to explore all this once we are settled down there.
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I know someone, who is really envious of the 1:1 version, but even once he will have the time (after retirement), he will not have the space (living in a city appartment) nor the right aqueous environment (though will be living at the coast) for this kind of boat 😭
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Bench Top 5" Disk Sander
wefalck replied to DocBlake's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
I am using a set of angle gauges like the one below to set the table of my (shop-made) disc sander: -
Kind have thought so. Difficult to find good model and mould-makers and casters these days.
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Somehow I need a double or triple 'like' button ... Out of curiosity: was the prototype forged or cast or fabricated/welded ? Any idea ?
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Drilling holes with crisp edges in wood
wefalck replied to laps's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
It is also good practice to clamp a piece of waste wood over the hole to be drilled, or a metal plate with a hole pre-drilled to the correct diameter. This prevents the drill from wandering and ripping out pieces on entry.- 7 replies
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Mark, I hate to contradict you, but the French and the Spanish did use hammocks. Not sure though since when: LA BELLE POULE (1834) in the Musée de la Marine, Paris Armoured frigate VICTORIA (1867) in the Museo Naval, Madrid The easiest figures to find and with the largest range are the German Preiser model railway figures in 1:90 scale. Of course their dresses have to be adapted, but their sculpting and animation is excellent. There are many tutorials on the Internet on how to convert styrene figures.
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I knew about the file-button method, but never actually used it, I think. Instinctively, I would have tried to set up the centre of the respective borehole on the rotary table to mill the round. The file-buttons seem to be easier ...
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Horological collets are very good for holding such small things as screws. You also may want to watch out for so-called 'jewelling collets'. These are insert collets that go into a 5 mm collet.
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Brass plaque etching
wefalck replied to Murcia 66's topic in Metal Work, Soldering and Metal Fittings
Any wordprocessing or drawing software will do - in principle. Depends what kind of writing you are thinking of. The artful and fancy engravers cursive writing is difficult to reproduce on a computer, but there may be a program or app(lication) in newspeak out there for it. -
Here are some more references to Indonesian boat-building. Some of them may be digitalised by now, but I didn't check, as I have most them in hard-copy: Dijkstra, G., Kampa, T. (1984): De traditionele zeilvaart in de maritieme ontwikkeling van Indonesië.- Spiegel der Zeilvaart, 1984(5 and 7) HAWKINS, C.W. (1982): Praus of Indonesia.- 134 S., London (Macmillan Books). HORRIDGE, G.A. (1979): The Kongo Boatbuilders and the Bugis Praus of South Sulawesi.- p., London (). HORRIDGE, G.A. (1979): The Lambo or Prahu Bot - a western ship in an eastern setting.- Maritime Monographs and Reports, 39: 41 p., Greenwich (National Maritime Museum). HORRIDGE, G.A.; SNOEK, C. (1985): The Prahu. Traditional Sailing Boat of Indonesia.- 112 p., Singapore (Oxford University Press). HORRIDGE, A. (1987): Outrigger Canoes of Bali and Madura, Indonesia.- 178 p., Honolulu (Bishop Museum Press). NEYRET, J. (1976): Pirogues Océaniennes, Tome II – II. Polynésie, III. Micronésie, IV. Indonésie, V. Inde, VI. Autres Continents.- 315 p., Paris (Assoc. des Amis des Muséés de la Marine). NOOTEBOOM, C. (1932): De boomstamkano in Indonesië.- 240 p., 101 photographs & 25 ills., Leiden (N.V. Boekhandel en Drukkerij). Zimmer, H.-J. (1993): Beschrijving van de modelbau van een Pinisi, een Indonesisch zeilshchip.- Modelbouwer, 1993(1).
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Mark, I have raided indeed all major art materials stores here in Paris and the huge art and architecture materials department store in Berlin. Thin and very smooth seem to be two demands that are not so easy to satisfy at the same time. As I will apply sanding filler either before or after cutting, I might get away with a somewhat rougher material. There are many 80 g/m2 coloured papers for fancy letter writing. As the parts are going to be painted anyway, the colour-fastness of the paper per se is not of relevance. Logically, less glued papers are easier to cut with the laser, as the pulp burns away quickly, while the glues may require more energy and any refactory additives such as baryte or TiO2 are counterproductive. That is why the shiny magazine papers don't work so well.
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Pat, that's just ordinary 'invisible', i.e. mat, cello-tape. Plus, as I had put the pattern onto the bakelite paper using thermo-transfer (ironing-on a laser-printer printout), alignment was easy.
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That's actually a good idea, glueing/clamping another piece of material over the rod and then to mill or saw away everything. In this way the rod will be always securely fixed. Have to remember that. When doing such thing in my usual micros-scale, I embeded the wires into CA or epoxi.
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Thanks, Keith. These boats were designed to have a very low profile, as kind of difficult to spot and hit mobile gun-platform particularly in the wadden seas off the German coast. The main deck was only about 1 m above the CWL, so they had a very low freeboard. They must have been very wet in anything but calm weather. I guess that's it, why there are so many freeing-ports.
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