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jud got a reaction from grsjax in Wood toxicity
Dust masks are good to use if you have your nose down near your sanding or when you are generating large amounts of dust suspended in the air. Don't need to worry about a dust mask if you let your nose hair grow naturally, that hair is there to protect you from dust. The one I watch closely is the consumption of tomatoes. It is a proven fact that everyone who ate tomatoes, raw or cooked in 1859 are dead now, I'm not taking any chances.
jud
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jud got a reaction from flying_dutchman2 in Naval History On This Day, Any Nation
Off the coast of Cherbourg, France, the Confederate raider CSS Alabama loses a ship-to-ship duel with the USS Kearsarge and sinks to the floor of the Atlantic. 19 June 1864.
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jud got a reaction from Menno in Name the Ship Game
The rule for a fortnight might be changed to 48 hours which should attract a different type and greater participation. It's not the names that interest me, what I enjoy most, is pondering what the vessel was designed to do, the time and area where used. Summaries could be required after the final naming, they are interesting and often trigger further research.
jud
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jud got a reaction from NMBROOK in Wood toxicity
Dust masks are good to use if you have your nose down near your sanding or when you are generating large amounts of dust suspended in the air. Don't need to worry about a dust mask if you let your nose hair grow naturally, that hair is there to protect you from dust. The one I watch closely is the consumption of tomatoes. It is a proven fact that everyone who ate tomatoes, raw or cooked in 1859 are dead now, I'm not taking any chances.
jud
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jud reacted to JerseyCity Frankie in Too much rope
I have sailed numerous times on the Lettie G Howard, although not at all recently. Her hailyards, like on all schooners, represent a large amount of line to deal with on deck when the sails are set and as you point out, you could never hang a coil of line that size on the low pinrails of a schooner. On Lettie and again on many schooners like her, the line is coiled on deck under the pin the line is belayed to. Sometimes its just a large coil, other times its a Balentine coil: http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&q=ballantine+coil&gbv=2&sa=X&as_q=&nfpr=&spell=1&ei=a0y_U8aYApOryATas4LoAQ&ved=0CBIQvwU
Other schooner coil the line on deck then hang this large coil above the pin on the shrouds, tied temporarily in place with a short pice of line with a toggle and an eye on its ends.
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jud reacted to TBlack in Too much rope
Bob,
Back in the late 1950's I sailed on a 42 foot Alden schooner with double gaff rig. The masts probably we're not as tall as your project, but there was still a lot of line to deal with. Especially holding the coil in one hand while feeding the line to the coil with the other hand. Putting the coil on the pin is not really an issue, because the coil, itself, doesn't go on the pin. As you may know, when coiling the line you leave some line, say a couple of feet between the coil and the pin. When the line is fully coiled and held in your hand, with your other hand reach through the hole in the coil and grab the line running between the coil and the pin (those couple of feet); pull it through the hole and around the top of the coil, creating a loop. This loop goes over the pin, not the whole coil.
Tom
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jud reacted to ScottRC in Cutty Sark by NenadM
Dang Nenad, are you describing Serbia, or the United States?
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jud reacted to captainbob in Too much rope
I’m getting closer to figuring out where all the blocks, fittings and belaying pin need to be so the schooner can be rigged. Most models I see use the same five or six rounds of line to make up the hanks of rope for each belaying pin but that is not correct. Last night as I was studying the main throat and peak halyards, the engineer in me took over and I suddenly realized just how much rope is required. If the distance between the lowered gaff and the raised gaff is 30 feet and you have, as Chapelle shows, two double blocks at the crosstree and a double and single block on the gaff jaws, that’s a total of six lines going up and down. At 30 feet each that’s 180 feet of rope. When the sail is raised and the halyard is belayed the remaining line is made into a hank. If the hank is 2 1/2 feet top to bottom or 5 feet around that is 36 turns of rope. That is too much line for one pin but I have never seen on any of the pin diagrams that more than one pin was used. So what did they do with all the excess rope?
Bob
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jud reacted to wefalck in Stowing the anchors
If possible, a lot of the gear that may get loose during the combat and hinder the movement of the ship was left ashore, when a seabattle could be planned. That is also a reason why ships got into trouble in bad weather after a battle. They were not sufficiently equipped anymore.
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jud reacted to NenadM in Cutty Sark by NenadM
I think, Bindy, if it is possible to judge from huge space and time distance, your old man was training you for life. As a young boy, (14 years) I was discovered by parents (very well situated) in smoking cigarettes ... result - I was cut off pocket money to the rest of my youth. I was angry, and never forgive this at all, but ... that situation forced me to find different type of temporary jobs ( coaling, in different factories, carrier of furniture, .....) where I learn very important life lesson : to appreciate and respect any other type of job, even hardest manual job, and to appreciate and respect of any possibility and kind of earning some money. And, above all, to appreciate and respect anybody`s work, no matter how simple or complex, easy or hard, stupid or expert it was. Later at the end of study, I found gold mine in keeping guitar lessons for children, and earned more money than my first regular wage was ... Long and last story. It is sure that situation had influence in forming my personality and character, so at the end, I can only said to my parents: Thank you
So, dig every hole in your life with joy appreciate and respect
BTW, I can write volumes thick as epic fantasy about life here, my thoughts, situation, explanation, etc etc, but trying not to overload main goal of building log: Her Majesty. From time to time, little spice here and there
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jud reacted to Bindy in Cutty Sark by NenadM
Hi Nenad,
Your plating really is going great! When you first described how many plates, and how much work I expected you to take so much longer although it probably feels like it is already.
Thank you also for your posts about your country and what is happening. As sad as it reads, it really is so interesting and makes it all so real for us on the other side of the planet. I have to admit that I enjoy opening your log every time I visit Model Ship World.
But I had to laugh as when you wrote ...
I remember annoying my father so much when I was young that he gave me the job of "go out the back and dig HALF a hole". It kept me busy for hours and every time I got him to inspect it he told me it was no good as it was a complete hole and I had to start again. Maybe he was really training me to do coppering?
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jud reacted to dgbot in Holding small parts.
Since I was diagnosed last Jan. I have had to go on a lot of prescription medicine. After awhile those bottles add up. I know a few who used to use 35MM film canisters. Now I tell people to save those bottles or if they have friends ask them for the empties. You would be surprised at how indestructable they are. From holding parts or for solutions or a mix of paint. In my case I do not have to clean them just throw it away and grab another one from the shopping bag on the shelf.
David B
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jud reacted to AndrewNaylor in colour of anchor chains and anchors
Rust was the color of choice once a trawler left the ship yard The original black paint on the cast iron would not have lasted long in the open ocean and as paint was expensive seldom used also the anchors would have been used very very infrequently almost in case of emergency only so no chance of the rust getting worn of
Andy
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jud reacted to rybakov in colour of anchor chains and anchors
Usually the anchor chain was divided in eight 15 fathom lenghts conected by patent links or shackles. Normally eight such lenghts.
To keep track of how much chain was out a number of links on both sides of the shackle were painted white.
Also a lenght of wire was twisted around the stay of the corresponding link, i.e. the third shackle would have three white links on either side
of the shackle and a twist of wire on the third link on either side.
As for red connecting links I don't really recall seeing it
Sometimes a dozen or so links nearer to the anchor were also painted white to make it easier to see when nearing the surface an start
reducing winch speed.
I wasn't sailing in the 30s but I sailed on some trawlers not much younger and I'm pretty sure the way they were run by the bosuns wasn't
that much different.
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jud reacted to Werik in Name the Ship Game
Welcome back, Europe. Aemonn, she was built in 1907 by Ropner and Sons Ltd. and and first sailed in British shipping. I have to say that if I had to identify this one I would be hard put. There seem to be so many ships built during that time period that looked very much like her. I think she had a basically unremarkable career except for the ending. This ship also has personal meaning. Edit: The cannon emoticon may be a little misleading. Her demise was from hostilities, but not from cannon fire.
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jud got a reaction from mikiek in footrope stirrups aagh!
The foot ropes are not hung from a hole in the center of the yard for a good reason, they are suspended over the rear of the yard on the side used by the top-men do their sail handling. Staying on the yard to do their work, is the reason, climbing a rope ladder will quickly show you why, your feet end up out in front of you and leave you hanging from your arms. Keeping your feet to the rear and resting your body on or over the yard can't be done with your feet out under the yard where they would tend to go if the foot ropes were hung directly under the yard, might be able to keep yourself from falling, but you would do little sail handling. Some good methods about how to make the foot-rope hangers and stirrups are noted in this thread, also in a past post there was explained a good way to hang them. On a model it may make no difference to you where and how you hang them, just as long as it is close, your call.
jud
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jud got a reaction from WackoWolf in THE BLACKEN-IT TRIALS
Brownells is a good place to get ideas, options and the means to complete the method chosen. I have used the cold blue method, never the hot blue which used to require tanks and chemicals to get it done. Have two S & W K-22 Masterpiece revolvers, they were users, "actually acquired them to replace one that I let get away", much of the bluing was gone and after I had them rebuilt they needed protection. The gunsmith I was using sent them to someone in Idaho who put a kind of parkerised finish, black in color that has proven to be tough. Today there are many different methods and options to choose from to color metal, Brownells is a good place to start finding out what some of those options are. Looking there may encourage the use of aluminum in modeling because of the different treatments that can be used for different effects. One of the earlier finishes was just plain rusting in a controlled manner, they called it browning, was used on many muskets.
jud
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jud got a reaction from monello in HMS Victory by monello - Scale 1:38 - First wooden ship build
Build her a bit larger and you will have a place to go when things get stormy in the house.
Good Luck on the build. I must ask, what are you going to do with her when completed?
jud
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jud reacted to wefalck in speed of serving and rope walks
I would always install a speed-control. You may be working with different materials that require different operational parameters.
For a serving machine it is important that you can control comfortably thread while it is wound around the rope to be served. So, it should not be running too fast.
I also would install a foot-switch for the machines. This leaves your hands free for all the manipulations. While I generally prefer on-off foot-switches on my machines in order to allow me to pre-select speeds, in the case of the serving machine, a foot-operated speed-controller may be useful. It allows you to slow down or speed up (as on a sewing machine) as may be needed.
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jud reacted to Piet in Hr. Ms. O 19 1938 by Piet - FINISHED - scale 1:50 - submarine of the Royal Navy Netherlands in service 1939 - 1945
WOW, thanks to all 28 who clicked the like button, I'm overwhelmed by your generosity.
@ Pete48: Thank you, and yes, I guess they'll have to suffice. Still working on them.
@ Popeye: Thank you my friend for your kind words. Yep, the hardware, lots of work and lots of scrap too - - - well actually not that much
@ Carl: Thank you too. It was mainly me who was / am using the whip urging, poking, admonishing myself. I'm like Nenad, talking to the model and myself as well, mostly when I screw up something - - - then it's "domkop," and that's the good word, the others I can't write here on this forum
@ Nenad: Yeah, it was and still is a difficult job to make it come out okay. I was really very apprehensive, more like afraid, tackling the props. Had several ideas in how to do them but in the end I decided to make four individual blades and cement them into the hub. You can see the end result in the next post.
@ Jud: Thanks Jud and wow, you know about balancing propellers? I'm impressed! Hmmm, do you want me to perform a static as well as a dynamic balance? Okay - - - I'll have to make a balancing rig first though Is this a challenge??? Yeah, I did my share of balancing aircraft props in my repair shop, only static though.
Cheers,
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jud got a reaction from egkb in Naval History On This Day, Any Nation
Off the coast of Cherbourg, France, the Confederate raider CSS Alabama loses a ship-to-ship duel with the USS Kearsarge and sinks to the floor of the Atlantic. 19 June 1864.
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jud got a reaction from WackoWolf in Naval History On This Day, Any Nation
Off the coast of Cherbourg, France, the Confederate raider CSS Alabama loses a ship-to-ship duel with the USS Kearsarge and sinks to the floor of the Atlantic. 19 June 1864.
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jud got a reaction from mtaylor in Naval History On This Day, Any Nation
19 June 1960
wikipedia notes: On 19 July 1960, while making the transit between Seal Beach and San Diego for decommissioning, Ammen was struck by Collett. The collision killed 11 Ammen sailors and injured 20 others. She was initially towed into Long Beach and, later, from there to San Diego where she was decommissioned on 15 September 1960. Ammens name was struck from the Navy List on 1 October 1960, and she was sold to the National Metal and Steel Corporation on 20 April 1961 for scrapping.
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jud reacted to DaveF in Metal vs. wood files - how to tell the difference
Richard
All you need to look at are the teeth.
A rasp is very course long tooth. It is used primarily on wood.
The finer the set of the teeth then you can start mixing materials.
I would also tend to look at what the files are made of. If they are just HSS( or High speed steel) they tend to disintergrate with metal. I tend to go with tungsten carbide for metal. Cost more but I still have my original files when I started machining in 74.
A good quality set will work on both but you also need to look after them.
Brass nails are soft but over time they will slowly chip the set.
On metal use a good lubricant on the teeth. Machine oil. On wood use a rubberized square block that lubricates and also prevents build up.
Hope this helps
Dave
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jud reacted to mspringer in Why were/are masts and spars tapered?
Jud, thanks for the visual of Grandad...which is what I called mine. I got his image doing that very thing. Grandad is also what my granddaughters call me.
Mark
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