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New Ship Builder Old retired concrete buider
mtaylor replied to jimbobuild's topic in New member Introductions
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It's great to hear that you're settled into the new apartment, Mike. I'm surprised the boxwood is chipping but the results look excellent.
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Interesting. I'm pulling up a chair. I did a bit reading about the siege of Charleston (https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/civil-war/a-confederate-intelligence-coup-won-the-siege-of-charleston-harbor/) and Keokuk's involvement.
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Guillermo Este es un sitio en inglés. Por favor, use un traductor si lo necesita, pero publíquelo en inglés. Gracias. Guillermo This is an English language site. Please, use a translator if you need to, but post in English. Thank You.
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Basically, the capstan had "teeth" for lack of a better word, close to the deck. The pawls were attached by a bolt to a plank of wood that was bolted to the deck. Depending on the which pawl was used, the capstan could be "locked" into position. See the drawing below. The arrow points to the pawls.
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Lovely carving work, Gaetan.
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I'm thinking that look at "museum" ships such as Constitution or Victory but they use all modern methods for the most part and kept super clean. Perhaps a search of museums where cannon are sitting outside for years though the old saying of "a clean ship is a happy ship" seems to apply and the guns wouldn't have been allowed to get too rusty. From your pictures, probably one of the middle two for iron. I somehow can't picture bronze cannon being polished and shiny all the time so there's that. So bronze, probably the one on left.
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Hi Saint, Welcome to MSW. There are some kit cross-sections and given they're kits there's various levels of qualtiy, etc. In the kit area is a pinned post for the Quick Find Index. This should help with your decision. Once you locate a kit you like, search the Index and see what others have done, what problems they've had, and what the results were. I'll also add, do a build log. It's the best way to get help and also make a few friends.
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Looks wonderful, Steve. Nicely fixed and shipshape.
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I hope it wasn't a hard drive that failed, Keith. I would encourage you and everyone else to either do regulator backups onto a CD, another computer, or get a purpose built backup. Seagate makes some and they're pretty reasonably priced, IMO. I had a harddrive failure in January and was very happy I had a backup of all my data.
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Congratulations on the sale, Eric. As for the sidewheeler, I hate to see all wonderful engine work being covered up. Have you considered that one side using plexiglass to "simulate" the wall? Some of the plastic guys do this (there's German U-boat going on that comes to mind). But, builder's choice and I'm loving watching this.
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This should be in the Kit Build Log area. I'll move it there where there's a couple more builds going on for this ship.. BTW, Welcome to MSW.
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Frolick: They do have an "add-on" for the La Venus monograph which provides additional drawings. I don't have that one, just the original. There'is the La Belle Poule monograph in which the plans are set for bulkheads, not frames. Le Renommee of 1744 has a monograph. And there's the latest frigate monograph for L' Hermione. I'm not sure it qualifies as true frigate but also Bonhomme Richard.
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From what I gather the "windows" were removed as part of "Quarters!" and left open much like the grates were removed and sent down. My disclaimer is I'm not sure this was done by all the navies. As for the metal rods, it's purpose was basically to keep anything falling from up high doing damage.
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Good point.
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Looks good from here though I think the opening shouldn't end in a "point"... more rounded maybe.
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I'd be careful with that one. I've heard of people getting into some minor trouble for "polluting". But, most of us have probably done it. Even floated some and shot at them with a BB gun.
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I buy them by the box at home improvement stores or the local big chain stores.
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I don't get bleeding fingers, I wear rubber gloves.
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