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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #100 on: January 21, 2010, 07:28:04 pm »

21 mm, 15mm and 8.5 mm diameters

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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #101 on: January 21, 2010, 10:19:09 pm »

Depending where you live don't forget about the toys that you get from the kids bubble gum machine that have small toys in those little plastic containers. One side of them would also make a great dome as well. I have also used some ping pong balls as well.

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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #102 on: January 22, 2010, 01:51:12 am »

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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #104 on: January 22, 2010, 06:41:47 am »

You will find some big videos (also for download!) here:
http://www.ulsteinlab.com/

In our german X-BOW forum we had made a little collection of video links:
http://forum.modellkapitaene.net/viewtopic.php?t=10565

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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #105 on: January 22, 2010, 08:49:35 am »

Great videos, thanks for the links.

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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #106 on: January 23, 2010, 07:59:26 am »

hi
you can get the domes from here http://www.marinetic.de/index.php?cat=1765 but i dont know if it would be a bit far away from you!?
keep up the good work with your model
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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #107 on: January 27, 2010, 04:55:30 pm »

Thanks for that me3, they look good, but at 13 euro for a 15mm dia one - think I will persevere with my own.

Anyway, I found a couple of cedar mothballs just the right diameter, 2 coats of sanding sealer, chamfered the inside of a bit of plastic pipe, stuck em together, chucked a bit of filler at them, sanded and painted, and voila....
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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #108 on: January 27, 2010, 05:00:24 pm »

Then I moved onto the rudders, just for a change, started with a brass plate, soldered to a brass rod, cut a groove in 2 pieces of balsa and glued them to the spade, sanded a profile on the rudder and glued a bit of thin ply on the top and bottom of the rudder, and voila...

These will be covered with thin glass cloth and epoxy at some time in the future...
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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #109 on: January 27, 2010, 05:04:57 pm »

I have also progressed the superstructure a bit.

Took lots of time to clean up the superstructure, adding filler and sanding off.

Cut out a deck piece and fitted the control room deck in  a cutout, then had to make lots of fiddly adjustments to get the outer piece to fit on it.
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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #110 on: January 27, 2010, 07:33:48 pm »

Hi

Your bridge looks great!  :-)) :-)) :-))

And a good solution for the radar domes!

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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #111 on: January 28, 2010, 06:59:23 am »

Hello,

  Whooooooooo! Great job!!!  :-))

Kénavo, Philippe!
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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #112 on: January 28, 2010, 07:51:38 am »

If I may, another technique for producing ovoid domes.
You take an egg that you cut the mini disc drill. You resins inside, then you add any base that you paste. A few chews to join. After painting, the effect is guaranteed.
Advantage, following the animal, you have several egg sizes. It'll just go to the corner grocer provided with your Caliper to find the egg that has the proper diameter. Beware the grocer may take you for a fool ... %% {:-{

Kénavo, Philippe!
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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #113 on: January 28, 2010, 08:24:52 am »

Great idea Philippe, and you get  breakfast out of it as well  :-))
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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #114 on: February 06, 2010, 10:55:56 am »

I have been working on the driveline at the moment.

These will use 50mm MMM nozzles, and home made shafts and bushes.

Pictures show, in order, the slot for the mounting drilled ready for cutting and opening up the slots.

Next shows a wooden wedge I made to sit between the hull and mounting to align the nozzle properly, then with the mounting dry fitted in the hull.

Then we have a side and end view of the nozzle and shaft dry fitted. You will see I use a plastic disc in the nozzle to align it all.

Then we move on to the prop shaft components. The bushes are made from leaded bronze, the tube is brass.

I haven't finished the 'P' brackets yet, as I need to get the props in place to determine the angles I need to fit the bracket.

Finally we have the tube with oiling tube fitted. To do this, I silver soldered a 25mm length of tube to the prop tube, then drilled a hole in the main tube and cleaned it all out. I used a 25mm length because it allowed me to get a drill down to drill the prop tube. I then slid a longer piece of tube over the first length and soldered it in place. At this point, I used a lower temp solder so as not to melt the first soldered joint.

This tube length was cut to bring the end above the water line. Finally, I turned a small aluminium plug to push fit in the oiler tube just.
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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #115 on: February 06, 2010, 10:58:07 am »

oops, the pics got out of sequence somehow :embarrassed:
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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #116 on: February 27, 2010, 05:24:37 pm »

That a wonderfull work piece I am very impress  with your work and congratulation. Thank you for your idea for fiber optic I  have some
an old Christmas tree and I save them before. But also I have this micro tiny LED from cellphone they are very bright and looks like pin head size.
I just need 3 PCs Green, Red  and Yellow (amber). Amazing work you done there and two thumbs up for your work.Regards Aydemir  :-))
From Micro Mahogany Classic.
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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #117 on: February 27, 2010, 05:38:51 pm »

Thanks for the comments, Aydemir.

Forgive me if you already know about led's and resistors required, but, just in case, here is a useful LED circuit calculator:

http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz

Ian
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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #118 on: February 28, 2010, 01:12:10 pm »

Here is a screen grab of what I hope it will turn out like.

Ian
hi do u have to download that or sumthing as i would love to have a play and make the tug i want
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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #119 on: February 28, 2010, 02:12:49 pm »

Nathanbint,

There isnt a download for these plans, I designed it myself from scratch

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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #120 on: February 28, 2010, 02:19:32 pm »

what i mean in one of the pics at the start there is a pic with  the boat green and what i fort was if there is some site where u can design the boat that u want to make
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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #121 on: February 28, 2010, 04:18:19 pm »

Nathanbint,

Sorry, my misunderstanding, here is a link to the software you need, its free, powerful but takes quite a lot of work to get the best out of it.

http://www.delftship.net/

There is a basic tutorial here to get you started.

http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=19208.0

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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #122 on: February 28, 2010, 04:35:32 pm »

Today I have been fiddling with the drivelines, the pics show how I set up the shafts parallel. Everything is loose fitted at the moment while the wooden wedges between the hull and korts dry.

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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #123 on: February 28, 2010, 07:55:11 pm »

hi thanks i have downloaded it and i am going to try and get my head around useing it
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Re: Bourbon Orca
« Reply #124 on: March 02, 2010, 04:54:10 pm »

Today, I made two motor/shaft alignment tools. In the past I did alignment my eye and short ruler. This time I thought I would be a little more technical about it. The tool is simply a length of brass, drilled each end for a push fit on prop shaft and motor shaft.

The next job will be to glue in place the shaft tubes.

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