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Thanks for the info. I've ordered some silicon rubber and I'll get busy with the parting board now. Lets see if I can get a result - then we'll talk about a trade!
Thanks for the info. I've ordered some silicon rubber and I'll get busy with the parting board now. Lets see if I can get a result - then we'll talk about a trade!
Make sure the rubber you get is of the 'brushable' type (the term is a misnomer -- you actually apply this non-sag stuff with a flat stick or big putty knife). The TC-5030 is the best I've found for this application:
Its a rather warm 45 degrees C in my workshop this afternoon. (That's 113 F for you trogladites who refuse to be dragged into the metric age). Not much happening as a result other than a few experiments to see how things might go. Still haven't found an acceptable way to replicate the coverings on the sonar domes.
I am am hanging for this much anticipated southerly to come through, beach was packet this morning. Sweltering here even our air conditioner is struggling, Good to see Romeo yesterday, great to see even further progress,
I don't often fawn all over someone's project. But .... I must say: Wow! This ROMEO is a real piece of work. Well done, sir! Love the dishing between frames and stringers effect you achieved on the two domes. This attention to detail, and credible representation, is an eye catcher. Oh, yeah, you'll have to paint this one green. You know that, right?
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