GrahamSmith
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Leading Seaman · 78 pts
Bacup, United Kingdom
Member since Oct 2014
Last online 12 years ago
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All In place
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Krick Lisa M
I've glued the bits of the superstructure together. The front windows were a bit of a b*gger - they didn't fit very well, so I ended up making the centre one o…
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OOOOPS!
Oh, dear! it turned out that with the servo mounted where it was, the horn was just a tad too high and would catch on the underside of the well deck. So I had …
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All In place
Here the motor and steering servo have been mounted properly. The motor is as near in line with the prop shaft as possible. All wood bits have been yacht-varni…
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Modification
Since I'm fitting a 540 motor, I needed to mount the motor further forward, and therefore the battery had to go further back.
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Working bits
This is what the motor and battery mounts are supposed to look like.
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Rudder mount
The rudder mount is made out of three pieces of wood glued to the tube. in the event, I decided to reinforce it with extra wood.
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Detail of coaming
Here's how the coaming attaches
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Coaming
Then the coaming is attached to the inside of the lip (see diagram in next post)
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Deck underside
There's a set of wood strips to fit round the underside of the opening in the deck:
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