Time to wrap up the work on the servo plate. I filled the stern keel section with about 1,5 kg of lead, all the way listening to
Led Zeppelin's "Mothership" album
Lead trivia alert:
Did you know that the english words for plumbing and plumber derive from the days of old when the plumbing actually was made out of lead (latin: plumbum)?
As we all know today, this was (and still is) a bad idea as lead is kinda poisonous. This is also why we don't sweeten the wine with lead acetate any more
Also, did you know that the
Mythbusters once built a baloon made entirely from lead and it actually floated? Still not actually a led Zeppelin, but probably as close as it gets
Anyway, the lead in my Imara is safely tucked away under a sheet of glassfibre and polyester resin. I coated/soaked the lead balls with resin first to secure them inside the hull.
After the resin set somewhat, it was time to insert the servo plate for good and glue in the last one of the crossbeams.
Although it will still be possible to move the servo plate somewhat (this is why I mounted it with magnets), it will need some effort and fiddling to do so once the deck is in place. But basically, in case of an electrical emergency, it should - at least in theory- be possible to access most of the stuff that is mounted on it.