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you missed the obvious sailing boats generally have deeper keels than motor driven vessels.

Well lets see if we can wow you with the morse control, I took some 3mm dia rod, and filed a flat on so i could punch a dimple for the drill bit, then using a 1.4mm drill bit I drilled a hole, after checking it was central, i drilled it out with a 2mm drill (2mm hole through a 3mm brass rod, it needs to be perfectly central) after that it was a case of taking a 12mm x2mm bolt and bolting it to the 3d printed morse control. then it was sit it on a 1p piece for scale , get out the extension rings and get some pictures, then with just the normal lens

more work progresses, after receiving a new power supply for my bench, tidying was done and space made for it, then it was time to drill out for and install the gauges, which then had the dials painted white. a morse control unit was 3d printed on high quality setting with 0.1mm thick layers, this gives a smoother surface. I then chromed the surface with a chrome paint marker, these Molotow markers are not cheap, but do give an excellent chrome finish, just the operating handle to make from some 3mm brass bar now, then attach using an m2 bolt.

might be worth them contacting Marthams to add to their hire fleet.

oh how tempting if i could afford it, my favorite boatyard who make nice boats (that fit under PH bridge).

rest assured posts here do not appear on facebook, unless you post either a link to them yourself, or someone else does (which would earn them an instant ban from the forum.) or post the same content to facebook. the behaviour Ian is describing is the email notification that his topic (or any he has set notifications for) has been posted to.

I think i have only ever realised it was a saturday when i was half way to work a couple of times, but its a pain when you have a daily commute of over 50 miles.

me neither, in fact i dont see any new posts today. and if someone (other than you) has cross posted your post to the facebook group, they will be in trouble from the moderation team

ah, good idea, but a bit late as i have already rebuilt it, and fitted the switches.

oops broke it fitting the switches, split the wood out, so it is being remade with the grain running horizontal rather than vertical, i am just at the filing of the slots stage once more. one has these minor setbacks during a build, so I am not upset.

so today has been working on the dashboard layout, as you may remember from model 1 i have some miniature switches that look similar to the ones on the real boat, so the dash panel has been cut out for these, now comes the problem, this panel is thicker, so i need to cut recesses to allow the chips to sit deeper into the panel, so they are flush on the outside.

quick answer - no facebook is entirely separate from the forum, if you want to view the forum, you need to log on, for the members area you need to have made a certain number of posts before you qualify, and then I have to remember to check post numbers occasionally to change membership status so you can view the members area.

Work on the cockpit progresses, the areas that contain the cocktail cabinet and helm position are required to be done before the floor, so a wide sheet of teak was selected and narrower pieces for the sides, of course the shapes were awkward

perhaps they should bulldoze scaffel pike level to make it accessible.

to be fair those signs are probably less than 0.3 square meters

could you convert it to twin hydraulic drives powered by a single engne?

since they are only allowed to use it for marketing, it is therefore by definition advertising

I believe that you can get trams that have big flywheels they get their power from, when at stops they connect up to the electric and spin the flywheels up to speed, this then keeps them going to the next stop.

I have considered a resin printer for smaller detail stuff, so maybe when this years bonus comes through. the xyz printer was (when i bought it) one of the few really plug and play printers, all the settings controlled by the chip in the cartridge, (the newer pro ones can also work with other filament) but that was a limitation i accepted having seen others trials just getting the settings right to get the first print, mine was up and running as soon as i got it. since my skills are in cad, the design was for me the easy bit. i accepted these limitations when i chose it, and still have no regrets, so obviously for me that was the way to go. I am careful with the abs, its used well ventilated and the cabinet is a closed cabinet, i might get round to adding a vent directly outdoors from the cabinet sometime.

i found a new channel to subscribe to with lots of interesting stuff and over 1000 videos, so its the new background tv at the moment.

its been relatively quiet for me, my daughter was away at her boyfriends for christmas and boxing day, this gave me time to tidy some meccano and put up some metal shelving to hold it, then boxing day was a morning of tidying, followed by family afternoon at my sisters, where the whole family, my parents and sister and her kids and grandkids all get together for a buffet and presents, then i found that my daughter had replaced her gaming tv with a bigger one, this freed up her old 42" tv to replace the nearly new 32" tv in the lounge, which freed this up to replace the partly dodgy 24" tv in my bedroom, another hour well spent sorting all these out today will be another quiet day, only 2 taxi runs scheduled to drop my daughter over to her mums and pick her up again, so more tidying for me. (as well as binge watching youtube videos)

I have a da vinci printer the 1.0 Ai0, this has quick change hot ends, the main reason for changing out the hot end is that each filament type has a different melting temperature, i normally use abs, which has the hottest nozzle temperature, abs is fine as it will clear ant cooler melting filament from the nozzle, the other filaments with the lower temperature however cant clear abs out of the nozzle as it doesnt melt at the temperatures they work at, so unless you want to rigorous cleaning routine such as soaking the nozzle in acetone, which would mean removing the nozzle from the quick change hot end and soaking it, then ensuring it is reassembled at the correct height, then the better option is a nozzle dedicated to each filament type, it only takes about 30 seconds to swap out the nozzles.

its of great interest, i love these little details

Christmas cooking has started, the ham was cooked yesterday afternoon, and this morning the slow cooked braised beef went on, followed by cheese and bacon turnovers for breakfast, next it will be over to my parents to say happy Christmas, then home, tomorrow it's round my sister's for boxing day.

Happy Christmas one and all