Hi, I was hoping for some wonderful how to from the learned people here on getting an old proptube out of a model without destroying the back end entirely!
This is an old Boston Blenheim model, wooden hull, very nicely done indeed, but the propshaft was seized solid. I managed to eventually get the shaft out (steel running in a brass tube). The shaft/tube looks home made and did not have bearings/seals at either end, the shaft was just running inside a fractionally bigger tube the whole length, not the usual end caps and larger diameter tube with the shaft well clear inside.
I started to get the proptube moving but it has fractured at both ends now and is 'inside' the keel for a length of about 8"... I have no drill bit long enough, and don't want to use excessive force in case the hull is damaged...help? anyone? I'd even entertain putting it in coke for 3 weeks at this point!