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[Stavros!]

Neil does the motor end closest to the bow need to come up a couple of mm or is it an optical illusion




Stav

[Neil]

yeh it does mate, not fixed at all at the mo, as wanting to see if i can get a shorter   conecter.

[Neil]

Well  these little beauties are almost finished, with just a few dabs of coloured paint to pl;ace in strategic places, and then motorising them and that will be it for this build.
Hopefully they will be finished by tomorrow evening..........19 days from start to finish , not bad, I'm getting quicker.
Would I build another...........................errrhhhh.......

If I could find one cheap enough.........OF COURSE I WOULD. LOL.

[Capt Podge]

...Erm Neil - I think you will need a Moderator to split all your up-dates, on this blog, from reply no.64 onward, as they should be on your Atlantic 21 blog ?


Regards Ray 

[Neil]

THANKS Ray, was thinking about that, as my coordination and cognative skills at the moment are mush, but hopefully by the end of the weekend i will have finished the ribs and back on to the resto of the Barnett.

[Neil]

WELL FINALLY I have finished, but for connecting the outboard to the servos on both boats and the lights on the B-525,

 And so it will be back to the restoration of the 51' Barnett as soon as I have sorted space in the  workshop.

[Neil]

Now that the two Atlantic 21's have been finished bar the shouting it is back on to the Barnnett 51' restoration.

There are a certain number of "holes" in the deck and planking that I can see no obvious reason for  having there, and one has been filled in to blend nicely with the other deck planking.

However the hole in the starboard side waist and the stern area have not been made or were lost in passing years of time.  So, this late afternoon I have been cutting some planks 7mm wide to blend in with the other deck surrounds and tomorrow hopefully it will be a couple of hours or so in the work shop to form these fillets to close up the decks.


As such I have cut some planking from similar colour and thickness timber to recreate the missing deck parts.

[Neil]

Its hard to tell whats being glued in two layers underneath  all of thode clamps, but the last photo will give a clue.
Once these two have "stuck" in a couple of hours they will be sanded level and then to the outside faces will be added to each side a layer of 1mm birch faced water resistant ply.

[Sonar]

https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=70297.0;attach=232002


Just made a bigger version of this to hold a hot glue stick gun

[Sonar]

Just made a much much bigger one of these to hold and electric hot glue stick gun

[img width= height= alt=IMG-0709]https://i.postimg.cc/1RW0Q4PX/IMG-0709.jpg[/img][/url]

[Neil]

Good ideahope it was made from none combustable or meltable materials.

[Neil]

After 3 hours of glueing with Aliphatic waterproof quick grab resin I took the clamps off the rudder and trimmed the excess off before sanding it all over to give the outer layers a key to gluing on to the inner heart of the rudder.

I then cut out two pieces of 0.8mm thick birch faced ply as the outer layers of the rudder, and glued them to the inner core with the same resin glue and will leave them untill later this evening before removing the clamps and sanding down.

Once that is done and cleaned up, I can start on the steering geer and the seat for fitting the servo for the rudder inside the white mettle fittings that I cast 15 years ago, if I still have them.

Only then will I be able, after earlier inspection, be able to fill in the hole that for some reason was made in the deck aft of the cockpit area.

[Neil]

The outer layers of the rudder have set and sanded down giving a slight curve to the edges.

Then it was a rummage through my hundreds and hundreds of fittings that I have cast over the years for the two stocks, one as the header and the other for the lower stock that have the pintols cast in for the square section rod that act as the rudder stock. this square section rod runs through the cast white metal fittings that have the matching square hole in the fitting to stop the rudder swiveling around and being useless as a rudder.

[Neil]

And having just used one of my favourite tools, one of which I have been using since my 8th birthday, and which belonged to my grand father from the age of 14 in 1898 and stamped with his name, I feel proud to still be able to use them for my infrequent model boating tasks.
 
 Todays was to chissel out the grouves for the two fittings to slide in to.
 
 Once cut, I fitted the white metal rudder pintols in to the grouves with Araldite metal 2 part epoxy, and held them in place with small spring clamps.
 
 They have set whilst i was typing this, but will leave it all to cure for a couple of hours before sanding it all clean.

[Neil]

I have finally finished all the parts for the rudder assembly except for the top bracket fitted to the keels stern post.


This will be fashioned tomorrow and then the whole assembly will be attached to the stern of the boat.

[Neil]

I think I have just about finished the construction of all the parts for the rudder and mounting.

The rudder has been finished but yet unpainted and the parts to mount it on to the stern post have all been done and the epoxy holding the top bracket to the stern is curing.

I have tapped an m4 thread on to the bottom pin and threaded a small nut on to it so that it won't jump out of possition if bumped whils going astern. The lower heal [bracket] made from a white metal casting will be drilled as soon as Gunfight at the OK Coral has finished, and then I will dry fit the rudder assembly to the boat.............but only temporarily......

It is a pain in the but to try and mast the rudder off for painting if it is attached to the boat  and so it will be permenantly fitted in place once it and the hull have been painted later in the build, and so will be left without fixing the tiller rod before it is ready.

[Neil]

The rudder assembly has been fitted, if but temporarily, with the gear box that i made 15 years ago as a master for the moulding of the original, and thought I may as well use it. It fits well at the stern.
Using that gear box base I can now cut a hole in the stern deck to put in a box that will hold a servo to steer the rudder tiller arm.
Once this box has been made from 2mm plasticard, I can then fill in the hole immediately foreward of the steering gearbox.
Things are beginning to come together, if only gradually and slowly.

[Neil]

Last night I cut out the hole to to take a full size normal servo, but when I came to fit the base of the gearbox I had a big problem.
When trying to jiggle it around for the servo which was protruding above deck as I had originally thought the best possitioning, I broke the gearbox base, and had to repair it last night.

So I decided to fit the servo from underneath, and with one of the sets of tags at one end cut off it would glue in to place.
However it got me thinking as to whether to make a smaller box to house a smaller servo, which would be easier to get at and replace should one go wrong. After all the rudder is very free to move in its setting so a smaller servo would be able to cope with the rudder.
What does the majority think

[Neil]

work is still progressing on the resto, but havent been able to download any photos i have taken of the progress as my computer has had a hissy fit.
My daughter promissed to reset it all  last thursday but had forgotten she was going to a halloean party with friends, and tripped on her fishtail dress, fell down the stairs in Spoons, and twisted her ancle badly, and has been in bead since unable to move until i drove her to work this morning.
Maybe i'll get to post photos tonight,

[SteamboatPhil]

I wish your daughter well and for a speedy recovery (well for the pics.....and her well being)
One thing that does amaze me is how small the rudder is compared to the vessel size

[Neil]

Phil, she waited for 3 hours to be seen only to be told she needed an xray and to be told at 18.45 that the xray department closed at 17.00 hours.

But thank you for your well wishes, I shall tell her later as she has gone up to bed to seath and swear at 3 wasted hours..............bit of a work aholic.

[Neil]

Phil,  This is the actual lifeboat under restoration on the headland over the village of Ballicotton Eire where she was stationed.

Shows how small the rudder was compared with the 51' long hull.

[Neil]

Been a while but my daughter has finally fixed my problem of down loading photos.
 
 
 And so my catch ups will be based mainly on photos.

[Neil]

the next job was to fill in the 3 holes in the deck, port and starboard wastes and the stern just foreward og the area where the rudder servo was fitted..
the stern hole needed cross brasinf sanded to the samecurve to fit the deck camber already there botth at the stern and the side holes, and then planking to the stern and starboard holes glued in with pre cut planks. port one was already fabricated and came with the hull.
All will be colour varnished with yacht varnish later.

[Neil]

Next job, after looking at my original build of 14 years ago i realised that the original bow gobeye was far different to the one i fabricated recently and looking at the vidio of that original model, I cast away the incorrect  one and remade in liceness of the old model.
Then it was time to construct the bow breakwater. this was simply made fron two layers of 1.2mm thick ply cut accross the grain to make the two halves easier to bend than have the grain running length ways along the boat.
To facilitate a permanent bend in the breakwaters once glue and spring clamps had been applied to hold the two layers together i placed the ends of the two sides on to a couple of plastic containers and put a weight across the centre which bent the timber whilst gluing.