Topic: Re: MY NEW PROJECT....Another lifeboat or two! (Read 110143 times)

Neil · « **Reply #100 on:** November 10, 2012, 09:05:03 am »

WoW..........you've remembered,

no!..hit a brick wall last week....weather awfull, cold, wet, windy, and I am at the stage where it all now needs wet and dry paper to smooth down before moulding.........my supplier of GRP has gone off sick for a fortnight with varacose veins operation and it this weather it takes a morning to get my shed up to working temperature..........so plain truth.......just haven't been bothered to go out there.........slight hickup I know.........will get back on the job next week.
cheers for the wake up call.........last thing I need is a nagging mate...........got a misses and two kids to do that

neil.

Tim B. · « **Reply #101 on:** November 13, 2012, 03:02:51 am »

I am here ot Nag as well !

We're bored !

back at it straight away, never mind the weather !

essex2visuvesi · « **Reply #102 on:** November 13, 2012, 08:06:52 am »

Quote from: Neil on November 13, 2012, 07:48:52 am

well , yesterday I gave the plug a good rub down with wet and dry and then two coats of ronseal clear polyurethane varnish..........will rub that down today with medium grade wire(steel) wool and then a couple more coats of varnish and leave to go hard.
Next job is to make a card board "flange" from cerial boxes before transfering it to hardboard ready for moulding up to.
no pics as pics of paint drying would, (even to me) be somewhat boring.

Well someone has posted a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATJ-7bGBul0&feature=watch_response

Neil · « **Reply #103 on:** November 13, 2012, 08:23:14 am »

Rottweiler · « **Reply #104 on:** November 13, 2012, 12:16:26 pm »

I wonder how many people (like me) clicked on the shortcut to see what it looked like? I lasted 12 seconds! What a wonderful hobby , just think of all the colours you could post and compare! Think I will dig out my anorak!
Mick F

Neil · « **Reply #105 on:** November 14, 2012, 10:53:38 am »

I must say though that I think this is going to be the last scratch built model I build.............it took me weeks for my back to recover to what it is normally after the Blackpool show, carrying ( with much help from Mick French) to the water pool, and I just thought it was the extra energy and some bending at the pool to put the boats in..................but the last week or so of rubbing this plug down and man handling it has really hurt and inflamed the back again to the point where it is hard to move...............I am getting too old and decrepit to me man handling plugs.........and this one isn't too heavy or too big...............gawd knows what I'm going to be like after I have finished the glass fibre work.................but I'll have to do it as I have come too far to abandon the project......but boy does it hurt!!

essex2visuvesi · « **Reply #106 on:** November 14, 2012, 11:27:39 am »

Neils Lifeboat builds...... Sponsered by Ralgex

Hope you feel better soon mate :)

Neil · « **Reply #107 on:** November 14, 2012, 12:53:20 pm »

cheers matey..........but sadly it's degenerative.........spondilosis of the spine and arthritis to all the joints..............it won't get better...........even sadder (and I'm a physical wreck) is that the pain killers I'm on daily gives me constipation.....so have to take senna tablets for it................if I'd have been a horse......they'd have shot me by now, lol

essex2visuvesi · « **Reply #108 on:** November 14, 2012, 12:58:41 pm »

Quote from: Neil on November 14, 2012, 12:53:20 pm

if I'd have been a horse......they'd have shot me by now, lol

More glue for the rest of us!

My problem is my eyesight.... only 40 but its getting quite bad

Neil · « **Reply #109 on:** November 14, 2012, 01:25:52 pm »

I would hate to lose that faculty........take care.
neil.

Kim · « **Reply #110 on:** November 17, 2012, 11:10:00 pm »

Hi Neil,

I have studied your pics but admitadely havent read all the words .. i'm more a visual learner..

I recon that a two piece mould is possible. Will leave it at that, but if you want to chat you know my number.
Regards,
Kim

Neil · « **Reply #111 on:** November 17, 2012, 11:16:58 pm »

cheers Kim............I reckon so too........there isn't much downward pull needed and I think it will clear the belting if a pull outwards and down is made, and with plenty of wax and release agent on the plug it should work.......if it fails, then I'll just have to cut around the belting and fabricate flanges there...........but there isn't as much undercut on this hull as on others.............been putting it off whilst the varnish hardens to take the wire wool, and my supplier returns to work...............put that time now looms, so it looks as though i'm going to have to bite the bullet and get into it..............it won't be so bad once I've made the moulds, and pulled two hulls out, as it's a pretty straight forward boat to build.
neil.

Kim · « **Reply #112 on:** November 17, 2012, 11:30:22 pm »

Hi Neil,
I was thinking flange at midpoint on belting .. let the hull flex ... build mould solid!
Regards,
Kim

Neil · « **Reply #113 on:** November 17, 2012, 11:36:29 pm »

I'd be doing it the other way if any for a two part split mould, Kim.......litterally straight down the centre line of the keel, and the grp wrapping round the belting up to the top of the bulwark level.........that's why I was unsure, but been looking at it long and hard the last two weeks and think that a split mould from the keel would work with only a minimum of huffing and heaving, and with the help of some nylon wedges along the keel to release it from the plug, I reckon it will be ok......the release from the plug is the initial hard bit.........normally a grp moulding from the grp mould comes out a lot easier....well that's the theory anyway, lol

neil.

Kim · « **Reply #114 on:** November 17, 2012, 11:46:45 pm »

Quote from: Neil on November 17, 2012, 11:36:29 pm

.........normally a grp moulding from the grp mould comes out a lot easier....well that's the theory anyway, lol
neil.

Lol... Neil even my rubber mallet is showing signs of fatigue and it is only a few months old...
I hear what your saying Neil... but not sure how the tunnel will clear ... but hey.... I bow to your years of experience and sharpen my pencil in readiness!
Regards,
Kim

Neil · « **Reply #115 on:** November 18, 2012, 10:12:43 am »

Quote from: Kim on November 17, 2012, 11:46:45 pm

Lol... Neil even my rubber mallet is showing signs of fatigue and it is only a few months old...
I hear what your saying Neil... but not sure how the tunnel will clear ... but hey.... I bow to your years of experience and sharpen my pencil in readiness!
Regards,
Kim

Life's a gamble kim......and the way I plan to do it will be a big one./.........I could be left with a plug and a mould stuck on the outside..........might need your rubber mallet yet, lol

Neil · « **Reply #116 on:** November 18, 2012, 01:30:46 pm »

Quote from: Norseman on November 18, 2012, 12:50:10 pm

You'rs so Kiplingesque Neil ....... You 'can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same'

Dave
No I meant the Poet Neil not the Cake guy

nah Dave.................just philosophical.......if it's going to work, it will..............if it doesn't........... try something else, and put the cock up down to a learning experience, lol

And there I was.....thinking about some nice warm Mr Kipling's Almond tarts.......just like me mum used to make, god bless her.

F4TCT · « **Reply #117 on:** November 22, 2012, 10:43:52 pm »

I backfilled the flange this afternoon..............

Oh Neil, if only you understood how bad that sounds.

needless to say im enjoying the build, keep it up.

Dan

Neil · « **Reply #118 on:** November 22, 2012, 10:47:55 pm »

all innocent like..........."what you mean, Dan"

Rottweiler · « **Reply #119 on:** November 22, 2012, 11:09:00 pm »

have you sent your family away Neil? you are working in the house and not the shed?how have you managed to get away with that?
Mick F

Neil · « **Reply #120 on:** November 23, 2012, 07:53:41 am »

they make concessions for me being an old man now, and let me wax the boat in the house........saves warming the shed up........lol
no dusty stuff though.......and definately no spraying.......not since the last time

essex2visuvesi · « **Reply #121 on:** November 23, 2012, 08:51:03 am »

Quote from: Neil on November 23, 2012, 07:53:41 am

and definately no spraying.......not since the last time

why does that sound familiar?

I have the same rules lol

Stormbringer · « **Reply #122 on:** November 23, 2012, 10:12:45 pm »

thats nice mate

Neil · « **Reply #123 on:** November 23, 2012, 10:14:58 pm »

cheers, just something out the ordinary that I've enjoyed tinkering with.
neil.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #124 on:** November 23, 2012, 10:17:10 pm »

ive been following your build of the plug and eagerly wait to see it completed , but that motor will look great in the boat

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