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AON

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  1. It takes some practice but it is somewhat like tensioning a stringed instrument... you pluck it. see here: https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+tension+a+scroll+saw+blade&oq=how+to+tension+a+scroll+saw+blade&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDIICAEQABgWGB4yCAgCEAAYFhgeMggIAxAAGBYYHjIICAQQABgWGB4yCAgFEAAYFhgeMggIBhAAGBYYHjIICAcQABgWGB4yCAgIEAAYFhgeMggICRAAGBYYHtIBCjIwOTU0ajBqMTWoAgiwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:0917ef03,vid:gW-tO2Jx4Gc,st:50
  2. Looking forward to seeing her at the MSON club meeting tomorrow!
  3. If the wood tends to split try thinner pieces for a laminated assembly. make them a bit wider then you need because they might shift when glued but as they are oversized you can sand them to the proper width after the glue dries.
  4. pulled up my chair. always amazed with these tiny models in bottles!
  5. I use Fusion 360 - free hobbyist version to create my 3D models and it can generate 2D drawings from the 3D model. You need to make a few choices like sheet size, scale, views and then you can add dimensions and save the sheet as a PDF and print it out (letter size 8.5" x 11") or have large sheets printed out at a commercial print shop.
  6. I see you've soaked it... how hot was the water (boiling?) Have you tried steam... 5 to 10 minutes is normally adequate for us. I use an old rice steamer to steam my wood... limits the length. I've also place some pieces directly in the boiling water of the steamer. I've read exotic and soft woods do not bend well, and that kiln dried wood cannot be steam bent as the ligin in the wood has been permanently set. Air dried wood below 10% moisture has limited bending capabilities when steamed for the same reason. Should allow a shallow curve which is normally plenty for us!
  7. This one is a mish-mash. On both sides the breech rope is well to the outside eyebolts where as the gun tackle is in on the right side and out on the left side. Also they eyebolt location of the breech rope and guntackle are switch as other sources suggest the breech rope secures to the lower eyebolts. Two securing eyebolts above the gun port.
  8. In this image the eyebolts are both lower than the lower gun port cill
  9. Below is an image reference to various methods of securing the guns. In all images only two eye bolts are shown to either side of the gun port, not three. Interestingly, both are quite high, adjacent to the actual gun port, none lower than the lower cill which some other references would suggest. In image "c" there is a single eyebolt above the port... but in the earlier photo I can see two eyebolts. It is all very confusing.
  10. I'm not quite back yet. I had surgery; had been waiting sometime for a date and grabbed it when one was offered. Still recovering but feeling much better. Might be a few more weeks before I get in the shop. Hmmmm...might be a good time to paint my gun carriages!
  11. I find cleaning the blades (soapy water and a scrub brush) regularly to remove dirt and sap usually resolves the issue. If not then the teeth likely need resharpening. Never experienced a misaligned blade.
  12. Close? Possibly the adjacent gun used the extra ring at this station. Would that be far enough? I wonder if anyone on the forum knows?
  13. Thank you for asking and making me look again. I have a folder of pics taken by a friend and darned if it wasn't much clearer! There are extra bolts. I didn't see these in the video.
  14. I wonder if 3 and 4 are actually the adjacent gun eye bolts being used to train the gun? I do not see extra eyebolts on the Victory
  15. I can see your confusion as I too have gun rigging sketch references that show two different things. I always try to find a believable source. Looking at videos of HMS Victory that can be found on line I see the ring bolts are one over the other in areas 1 and 2 of your marked up sketch.
  16. I was told to laminate tight bends with multiple thin strips. Make the pieces wider because they will wander. Steam and bend them as an assembly without glue. Allow for spring back. When dry, glue them together and clamp. When cured, sand the edges to proper width then assemble on the model.
  17. Glen Unless my eyes decieve me, your 22130 gun carriage plan pdf is odd. The top sheet, top left corner, top view of the carriage. The top bracket has steps square to the centerline and the bottom bracket has steps square to the bracket. I wonder why they depicted them both ways. Alan
  18. I offer the two images below showing the end face of the steps were square to the bracket and not to the centerline of the carriage assembly. On the Victory photo, the end face of the step would not be seen if it was square to the centerline, so it must be square to the bracket face. the carriage construction photo... square to the bracket face. I suspect the carriage drawings were simply easier to complete square to the centerline with a tee square... but easier to cut square to the bracket face. They would have enough of a necessary challenge cutting the cannon pivot trunnion and the axle pockets square to the centerline so why make things more difficult then they need be. ?????
  19. In my mind there was one communal discharge point and multiple levels plumbed into each other. I also think the hinged seat was to allow scubbing the bowl clean by the Stewart of the gallery (I made up the title).
  20. I am reading in Those Vulgar Tubes ( by Joe J. Simmons III) that when two or three levels were involved the seats were offset and by the late 1700's they had a flushing mechanism utilizing a water tub located on top of the quarter gallery. They do not describe or show how the soil tubes were run or located. Goodwin's Sailing Man of War, pg 199 has a photograph of the Foudroyant port quarter under gallery restoration and you can see the "flushing pipe" and "cistern" but doesn't seem to discuss it at all in the text on pgs 199-203.
  21. The model is getting more difficult! Below is a pic of the soil pipe discharge from the quarter gallery that David Antscherl included in his model of the HMS Comet I note it is a direct run and not to the dangling ornament. How was it plumbed for a two or three decker? I'll keep looking.
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