grendel

is that the total error after 5 cuts, or the total error divided by 5 to get the actual error?

take your glasses off, now hit yourself over the head with the piece of timber - does it feel square?

I think we might let you get away with one thou out of square, you will go further out of square if you sand it anyhow. you could always square it up when you varnish it, by adding an extra layer of varnish down that edge.

I suppose you must wash off all the deodorant - before applying a new layer. I remember back to the days I was small, Ice on the windows, a bath once a week, and a good scrub with a flannel the rest of the week, you didnt stay long in the bath mid winter, with the upstairs unheated, and just the one coal fire downstairs.

they are for when you feel like a battered cod.

while expensive and generally quite smelly, Lush do some nice solid shampoos and some nice shower gels, all are environmentally friendly, and the solid shampoos are good for travelling. I like their honey soap. as for showering, a flannel some soap and a sink of water, and you can have a good wash all over.

tonight was busy working on that rudder, the fittings have been made and soldered together, paying careful attention to alignment, solder has been cleaned out of holes, and the whole temporarily fixed back together, next to add some wood inside to support the rudder, then cut the rudder parts to length and glue into place, this rudder is bigger and closer to the prop, with a larger leading edge in front of the rudder shaft.

probably to say thank you for actually stopping, and not just barging through anyway.

You are supposed to darn your socks before hanging them up - its quite easy really..... wheres my sock, that one has a hole - Darn! so does that one... Darn! and that one - Darn!

you can get those tools that simulate wood grain in a varnish type finish, that might add some authenticity. Alternatively take some timber - bend up some wooden ribs for the inside, once that is done, go along and remove all that nasty tupperware and replace it with good honest timber.

its been a quiet weekend on the model front, Saturday was the bi-annual meccano meeting. which used up the whole day, Sunday was a day of catch up, all of Saturdays tasks (shopping etc, all of Sundays tasks, and a trip to my parents to drop off a spare piece of vinyl flooring as a temporary expedient to protect the wood floor of their new cedar conservatory, until the local flooring merchant can get round and measure and fit a new vinyl floor for them. So I found myself last night wondering where the weekend had gone, and nothing done. - still the next phase of the rudder has been planned out - a collar will be soldered to the end of a tube to make up the outer fitting through the hull, then another piece of tube will need to be mounted on the skeg to receive the bottom post of the rudder.

I am finding the same thing Tim, the aim of the workshop was to replace the doing of messy jobs from the dining room modelling bench, well I have got to the stage where when I put one of the models on the bench it leaves no room to work, thus the model work is still being done part on the dining room workbench. still a lot of the messier jobs such as metalwork are now done in the workshop, and I am starting to consider the other half of the conservatory for storage and tools, maybe a second workbench with my other big vices on. then there is clearing my daughters junk from the spare bedroom (meccano room) it was only put there while we moved her bed (honest dad I will sort it out over the next few days) a year ago,

The big difference is you cannot give the lumber to the charity shops.

tonight it was cutting out the rudder blade, this was cut to the shape of the gap, but clearance was left in case of weeds. Then I soldered the blade into the pivot axle ,the rudder isnt a lot longer than the stock one, but has a little more in front of the pivot, and some depth. this should give a bit better turning performance.

I remember doing one re-enactment event, and it was so windy, with the tent flapping I ended up wearing my motorbike crash helmet to keep the noise down, in the morning when I got up the trailer tent next to me had moved 20 foot down the hill in the night.

a good example was the rudder, having widened the gap for the larger prop, the rudder I had ready looked a bit small and weedy, so I looked how it was made, and thought to myself, I can do that, so set about slotting the 3mm brass rod - the rest followed on from there, I will cut some brass sheet to make up the rudder and solder the whole together. the net result is I have done the slot and have a guide tool if I ever feel like doing another.

I think they just come to me - one minute I am looking at something - the next i am trying to work out a better way of doing it, just for the challenge I guess. that rudder shaft was the third one I tried, the first was on a v block on the bandsaw, that sort of worked, but I had trouble keeping it straight, the second was the first attempt at a sawing guide, but I didnt get the saw cut properly aligned with the hole, then this was the third attempt.

so tonight I decided to see if I could custom build my own rudder, to enable me to give the model a bigger surface - more in keeping with the real thing, the first job, cut a slot along the centre of a 3mm shaft, over a fair distance, how to support it while I remove a fair chunk out of the middle. So a bigger chunk of brass had a 3mm hole drilled through it, then a carefully cut slot in the bigger bit, then using that slot I fitted the shaft in and cut a slot, slowly feeding the 3mm shaft in from the back. success.

my biggest concern over lithium batteries is the possibility of failure and water ingress, lithium is very reactive to water, and lithium batteries have been known to catch fire (thinks phones laptops and batteries in planes all catching fire.)

the worst one round our way is the guide leader who charges down the road in her invalid chair at about twice normal walking speed, scything her white stick across the path in front of her (as if she could stop in time is she felt anything), the trouble is I have seen her (when picking up my daughter from guides) carrying two of the large church hall type tables, one under each arm

no but we can stuff blankets around it to muffle the noise so you cannot hear it.

I have modified the title of the post for you - thats what us techies are here for

no, that is a raft skilfully crafted from string and twigs.

I can remember i n the late 70's when I was filling my moped up it cost less than £1 - and that was the standard and the additional tank - 2 gallons

I even have my big pillar drill on wheels, though I dont really plan on moving it a lot.