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Bow Rope Fairlead
… s, so, jug kettle to the rescue, I dangle both parts in the steaming kettle for four or five minutes then they are quickly transferred to the clamping jig and left overnight to set. Now we have the correct shape the piece has to be located …
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Windows
… s it was glued with contact glue so I administered a little steam and prised them off but damaged some edges of the window cut outs. Try as I might I could not fix this as the balsa was so soft so I cut pieces of 1.5 mm ply to fit where I c …
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Scottish Fiffie Fishing Trawler
… for your perusal. It is my intention to build a paddle boat steamer as my next project, I would appreciate it if someone would be in the position to let me have building plans for one with side paddles of approximately 800mm in length. Pref …
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Hull is finised painting
… on final details on cabin, interior deck area, and getting steam system working. Oh I learded the hard way DO NOT use the blue masking tape on top of laquer/Deft it comes apart on the laquer after several hours.
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Re: Update #3
… on lights In 1838 the United States passed an act requiring steamboats running between sunset and sunrise to carry one or more signal lights; colour, visibility and location were not specified. In 1846 the United Kingdom passed legislation …
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Restoring an almost 100 year old ship model
… .. Some facts about the original boat: DS «Hestmanden» is a steam-powered cargo ship, built by Laxevaag Maskin og jernskibsbyggeri, and handed over to Vesteraalen's steamship company in 1911. The boat is 195.6 feet long and 30 feet wide. It …
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Rubbing strakes
… clamp so I can just slot the piece in place when it’s been steamed for 3 minutes in the kettle, I then clamp along the length of the hull using elastic bands and scrap pieces of wood to press on the strakes to hold in position overnight (s …
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HMCS Sackville
Here are a few photos of the model and the steam plant. The various fittings are coming along slowly. The dust you can see on the boiler is from a dry chemical fire extinguisher. I decided to fire up the boiler in the back yard and discover …
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HMCS Sackville - WWII Corvette
… rent sized jets but it still took over 30 minutes to get up steam and by then the fuel tank was empty. I'll build a larger tank before next summer.
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SMS Komet
… & upper decks, wheelhouse, navigation and mast searchlight, Steam Master smoke module, sound module from Model Sounds Inc. (klaxon, fog horn, twin triple expansion steam engines, 8mm machine gun and 37mm canon. Two machine gunners which rot …
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(Working Vessel) Northlight Clyde Puffer
… ner smoke unit in the funnel. An electronic sound generator Steam whistle completes the 'add ons' for my Northlight. (Motor: MFA) (ESC: Viper Marine 15) (9/10).
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Update #3
… on upper deck then turn it over and paint the hull. hook up steam plant radio rcvr.
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Re: Boiler #3 with servos
… which works well and solved a long-standing problem of low steam pressure, the only problem being a bit on the noisy side. Plus a better gas cut-off valve from Cleveden Steam, the old one being homemade by myself. I built this in the 1970s …
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Deck planking
Steaming the edge planks The Bow has a significant curve and needs a plank /piece of timber to follow the hull curve for a width of 8mm around the total circumference of the boat. Others have cut a shaped piece from a sheet of wood but this …
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Re: Marian Belle' Tug Mobile Marine Kit.
… another Mountfleet kit Danny Boy a North sea Drifter, with steam plant which was difficult to fit as small narrow superstructure.
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Marian Belle' Tug Mobile Marine Kit.
A Mobile Marine tug kit, modified to take a steam plant, TVR1A-BB steam engine, 3 1/2" diameter x 6" length boiler. 4 channel for forward / reverse. speed control, steering and gas cutoff valve. Around 2 years to complete.
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Boiler #3 with servos
… w piping in set up to install the servos for the shutoff to steam.Had previously installed the rudder servo and engine servo and tested them out.The shutoff servo proved to be stubborn as I didn't realize it had shorted out needed to find a …
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Gorleston Model Boat Club
… e a few regulars down the pond most Sundays. Even had a new steam boat this week! Most of us are still in hiding though. I'll be glad when we get back to the 'old' normal
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Change
… oiler I found that I needed to use the valve to control the steam better.The servo for the foreword/reverse works well but will be better at full each way when running.I will use the shutoff to slow the engine down. Now the change I had ano …
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New top end of Zulu
… tice two chimneys, one for the cook stove, the other from a steam boiler to power the steam capstan. Fishermen it seems were keen to adopt modern technology where it reduced hard labour in fishing net retrieval. One issue I have with this m …
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Silver soldered
… ed to silver solder all the pipe work.The next step will to steam the boiler to check all piping and run the engine under steam . Rick
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Esc motor pairing.
Nerys, steam power is out of the question, as its quite a slim Hull. So it will be twin motors with individual driving paddle wheels. Although the plan shows single drive. Cheers Colin.
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planking
And so it starts shaping, sanding, steaming, gluing.
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Fitting the side skins.
… at along with a light spray of water which quickly turns to steam but allows the ply to become pliable this is then bent around the bow and clamped, I now leave this overnight to dry and cool, which will hopefully retain the bend. I then dr …
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Fitting the balsa block
… lsa is also soft in places and harder in others (I wish I’d steamed the ply) making sanding difficult. Solution – use the wood hardener on the block, this helped and eventually I had what I was happy with using a template traced from the ke …
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Fitting the bottom skins
… odate the prop shaft curve. The bottom skin also needs some steaming to fit the curve just before the balsa block, this curve is at the discretion of the builder so a gentle filing against a pre-made template to ensure both sides are the sa …
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SEA COMANDER RE-FURB.
… between the carpark and the boat club. The Model Engineers steam track runs around and across the dams and is nearly 2k's long So we have a great drawcard!
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Arctic Convoy
… omething else onto the slips ,decided on a cargoship /tramp steamer from the 30s-40s will call it Arctic Convoy as a tribute to the gallant men who endured so much. Started with the main decks and boat deck that I can do in the warmth of th …