HI all
Bit about me, normally I build 1/6 tanks and also write books on AFV,but have also dabbled with grey funnel line, have 1/96 Hermes, Phoebe and Tiger.
It is Tiger the question is about, while I was away in sunnier climates where last thing needed was a model boat

Tiger was in storage, sadly it seems as if a small crack in the storage roof allowed her to fill become wet inside. As can be imagined this has not done the scratch built hull any, with resin and wood parting company, so reluctantly I am going to do a refit, using a fibre glass hull and the original superstructure.
None of this is a problem till I come to prop shafts, I made the original ones from steel rod and brass tube, no O rings or stuffing boxes but the seemed to work, I want to be a bit professional this time round, but having searched the net I can find no supplier of exposed prop shafts and A frames, so at long last that is the question, does anyone no a supplier? Pheww