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Re: Totnes Castle 1884
« Reply #150 on: August 29, 2018, 07:47:37 pm »

Thank you Brian. I have been looking at your builds. Very technical, & good. Just one comment. You spent just over 50 Euro on your coaster.  Only once did I spend more than that on a model. That was for first steam plant (cheddar) . Now last steam plant £9.99. Yes I did the stretch trick. But some how working it gets out off line shall we say. Always good to hear from you, with words of wisdom thanks.
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Re: Totnes Castle 1884
« Reply #151 on: August 30, 2018, 09:14:37 am »

Another comment regarding your post Brian, I left it to see if someone noticed but no. Heating copper to red softens it not hardens. Sorry. Hammer
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Re: Totnes Castle 1884
« Reply #152 on: August 30, 2018, 09:31:42 am »

 :o.... my friend...you may remember I served an engineering apprenticeship at Metal Manufacturers in Port Kembla Australia ...[non ferrous wire & tube] so I do understand heat & copper products  O0 .......

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Derek Warner

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Re: Totnes Castle 1884
« Reply #153 on: August 30, 2018, 10:52:49 am »

Derek are you agreeing with me this time? I suppose you where to polite to disagree with Brian.
 Rails fitted just to see how they look. Also fitted the speaking tube. Remove and paint when the aft section is at this stage. Etching primer for copper & brass. I will cut off the excess below after final fitting.
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« Reply #154 on: August 30, 2018, 12:18:06 pm »

RGY....I would never agree in words 'here' with anyone if I knew it was incorrect  :-X .....interestingly....any form of work processing will induce work hardening of non ferrous wires or tubes ....

We could leave this at this simple point, however repeated heating [to red heat] & cooling of copper wire [under tension] will induce hardness within the wire  O0

So back to the Totnes Castle...was the ships wheel really so close to the bow?

Derek
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Re: Totnes Castle 1884
« Reply #155 on: August 30, 2018, 01:03:04 pm »

RGY....I would never agree in words 'here' with anyone if I knew it was incorrect  :-X .....interestingly....any form of work processing will induce work hardening of non ferrous wires or tubes ....

We could leave this at this simple point, however repeated heating [to red heat] & cooling of copper wire [under tension] will induce hardness within the wire  O0

So back to the Totnes Castle...was the ships wheel really so close to the bow?

Derek
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Re: Totnes Castle 1884
« Reply #156 on: August 30, 2018, 05:50:22 pm »

Well I do apologise to Brian. I will crawl back under my stone. Is it the tension that causes the hardness? All I know is I get it red hot to work when making boilers. I has said before never had an education.
Well again the helm is it in the right place I don't know any more, help.
Any way I have assembled all the rails, the hook circled, is to take the rail from the paddle box. 
 
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Re: Totnes Castle 1884
« Reply #157 on: October 14, 2018, 09:47:38 am »

Work stopped as I have 7 boats but after the summer sailing, none are seaworthy. So a lot of repairs to be going on with for quite a wile.
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