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Boat tranporter from car to water Ideas
All my boats are from 36" to 47" Steam boat is the heaviest at about 30 pounds Tug is smallest and Dusseldorf is longest. the steam boat will be the biggest problem because I will have to fire boiler befoe placing in the water.. the cement …
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Real boats
… father had become a teacher. I didn't lose sight of paddle steamers either. The 'Medway Queen' ran trips too Southend from Chatham and the ' Queen of Kent' and the 'Queen of Thanet' ran down to Margate and over to the continent. My persona …
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Lead Acid Battery Charging Potential
… maintaining battery powered 3 wheel carts for the miles of steam tunnels 100 feet below the campus. Every week I'd top up the cells of the size 27 car batts. There were a pair of 12v chargers for each cart. Battery attrition was high due t …
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Boat Build Help
… lue ; pins. How are you forming the wood (bending) will you steam .Do you have a place to layout and work .Every thing you do before you start makes it easier when building. Rick
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Boat Build Help
… the grain, as well as the oils in it. You may have to even steam/dampen the planks you are using to bend round the shape of the hull. Once the heat hits the planks, it will encourage the sap and oils to rise to the surface once again. What …
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boat plan
… n open launch printed on a 8 1/2"x 11" sheet of paper.Model steam launch Anna . How do I go about enlarging the plan to be able to build the frames. Can I do it on my copier or will I need to go to an outside source for printing. Rick
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AME
And another magazine stops publishing! For all those steam boys out there Australian Model Engineer which was one of the better magazines written by hobbyists has ceased publication from January 2021. This was a worthwhile magazine and true …
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Swiss RC boats
Learnt over the years you can't scale engineering design in steam as the theory falls away with efficiency. Take an example of a 46" Sea Queen correct speed would be just above walking but that is like watching paint dry so we sped up to ma …
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Swiss RC boats
… r than the scale of the vessel? As you watch the video, the steam paddle wheeler with masts and sails for example. Some of the tugs too. Others rock about too much, because they do not have enough ballast. Maybe, I am to critical! It remind …
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Mental Health & Wellbeing Volunteers
… Keep on keeping on Dear Lady Cheers, Doug BTW Re masks and steamed up glasses; I had the same problem as Alice when going from a cold car park into a warm supermarket or chemist etc. Until I started taking my glasses off while still in my …
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Masks
… more so. Alice finds that when wearing a mask, her glasses steam up. I find it just stops me breathing properly. Nerys
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Vic Smead or Smeed?
… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST_Cervia Last entry from The Steam Museum / Ramsgate is from 2011, after that ... nix️ http://www.thesteammuseum.org/cervia.html http://thesteammuseum.org/steam-tug-cervia/ Cheers, Doug
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Vic Smead or Smeed?
… uardsman sounds good, I remember reading about a large size steam powered one in the September 2004 Model Boats magazine, don't think it was double size though. Guess you might have seen the photograph of the full sized cutter which Vic loo …
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Change of Tack
… ttle for small lengths and as you have realised a wallpaper steamer works well, I used an old stainless steel vacuum down pipe which has a bend at the end, I machined a plug with a tread in it to match the steamer connection and a water dri …
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Change of Tack
… this plank, that if I had a lot to do.....I already have a steam generator, in the form of a wallpaper stripper. A simple steam chamber fed by the steam stripper , which thanks to its long hose, could be sited a safe distance from the benc …
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Change of Tack
… es Nerys. For the first time in 50 years I have just had to steam the middle of a plank! I am currently building a live steam tugboat which has a curved strake running round the stern. An obvious candidate for bending from the centre. I use …
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Please help identifying old model ships
… ics inside. The green one had a stuart turner twin 10v live steam engine (still have it just removed). It is fibreglass hull. Pringles tube is there for size reference. Any help is much appreciated. Many thanks Adam
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Change of Tack
Nonsuch, I'm sorry, in talking about building a steaming box, my mind was working on the idea of full, or part length planks for a clinker dinghy or even a vessel with longitudinal planking. I completely agree that a mug of boiling water is …
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Please help identifying old model ships
The photographs are mainly of a steam tug called 'Dragon' and a couple of photos of 'Giant'. The funnel markings of both tugs are that of William Watkins, who were major tug operators on the Thames. In 1950, they amalgamated with two other …
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Change of Tack
… tall enough. In 50 years of buiding I have never needed to steam the middle of a plank. The water does cool down, but as I never fit more than one plank per side per day, that isn't an issue.
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Change of Tack
… box. It would have to have one end sealed then a source of steam at the other. Probably a proper kettle with a spout could be used, could always keep topping it up as necessary. That's just my idea, but I do not have a scientific enough mi …
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Change of Tack
… of buying that one myself. The added heat on the wet plank, steams the plank from inside. Once cool, the bend remains, allowing the plank to be dry fitted against the hull. It can then be glued with almost no pinning or clamping. I can reco …
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Real boats
… searched for John Braeynart, who drew the plan, and found a Steamboat Bill issue with his model of Mt Washington in it. After corresponding with John, I found out he would be coming to San Diego, so we arranged to meet. Later, while at Nava …
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Real boats
… me and in the summer used to take me on trips on the paddle steamers that plied the Bristol Channel. Starting from Barry PierHead, they ran to Weston Super Mare, Ilfracombe and Minehead. I suppose we would do about three trips to Weston in …
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Props
I started my Cervia steam tug in 1972 and finished it last year in lock down
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Boat Build Help
… retty well as it is likely to be swimming in warm water and steam oil! How long is the working time of z-epoxy?
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Vesper MTB scale 1/32 hull size 660x 180mm sarik hobbies dwg mm2062
… rive , meanwhile I’m working on my Mastman Bantum tug happy steaming , Howard
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Real boats
… around them and then us trying to clamp them to the boat - steam coming out enough to hurt your hands through gloves - but the trick worked . Later I thought we should have used thinner planks and doubled them afterwards - would have been …