1/96 Albacore (after Phase III coversion 1961)
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Great news on the gel-coat. Get hot!
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Wow! How on earth did you bend that wire so accurately? Those hatches look great. And in other news; the resin has finally arrived. I'll go and pick it up tomorrow. Hurrah!Leave a comment:
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Knitting? knitting? hmmmm, I could knit doilies and submarine covers. Well let me play more.....then I will look into knitting. LOLLeave a comment:
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If things chatter, change the chucks RPM. If it keeps up, reduce your feed speed. If you still can't get away from resonance chatter … take up knitting!
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So how do you turn a dome like the hatches are? I got one ugly chatter marked piece then I tried.
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THE GREAT OZ HAS SPOKEN!!! … (hey, kid, get that dog away from my curtain!)👍 1Leave a comment:
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Oh Lordy those props look good. Way more pitch on the newer one? I've revised my original plan to go with the shorter, contra rotating version in favour of the larger, 10' foot version. Its looks so radical that I just can't resist it. I also found a place that sells 1mm square ceramic files. Here: http://www.ottofrei.com/Ceramic-Fibe...llar-1mm-x-1mm Looks like I'll be able to file out those little drain holes after all, which is lucky because nothing else worked. Incidently the same crowd used tio make a 1 x 1 mm steel needle file that sold for $67.00 a pop. Strangely they have discontinued it!
I found out what I did wrong on the first attempt: when I positioned the first blade to the hub I used the wrong radius point wedge to angle the blade to the hub. What a dumb-ass!
The replacement wheel has the correct pitch. People may ask why so much more pitch to the after propeller than the one ahead of it. It's because the swirl from the forward propeller presents a lower effective angle of attack flow to the after propeller. So, the after propeller has to have a substantially higher blade angle in order to act like a propeller which has the same pitch as the one ahead of it. The object of the game is to have both propellers of equal relative pitch.
I'm with you, Scott. I'm going with that science-fiction looking original ten-foot spacing of the two wheels. Did it with Skip's 1/60 ALBACORE, might as well do it on your 1/96 ALBACORE:
Thanks for the tip on those ceramic square-files. Neat!
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Hey … whatever works!
Good luck over there in the land of a thousand-islands, pal.
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good to hear you and Ellie are safe.
we over here in the Philippines are riding out our own super typhoon.
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Oh Lordy those props look good. Way more pitch on the newer one? I've revised my original plan to go with the shorter, contra rotating version in favour of the larger, 10' foot version. Its looks so radical that I just can't resist it. I also found a place that sells 1mm square ceramic files. Here: http://www.ottofrei.com/Ceramic-Fibe...llar-1mm-x-1mm Looks like I'll be able to file out those little drain holes after all, which is lucky because nothing else worked. Incidently the same crowd used tio make a 1 x 1 mm steel needle file that sold for $67.00 a pop. Strangely they have discontinued it!Leave a comment:
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We dodged a bullet this week. The hurricane heading our way suddenly took a sharp left-hand turn and headed south of us.
Hurricane Florence can kiss my fat, diabetic, pimple encrusted ass! But, as I post this the good people of the Carolina's are going through hell -- some are dying and many have lost their homes. I trust our currant government administration to insure that everything that can be done for these folk is done!
Anyway …
God damned Scott hit us with those fantastic shots of his first 1/96 ALBACORE hull pull. Show-off!
Time I kicked in a bit too on this project -- keep up my end of the deal. Refining the fillets and finish of the two propeller masters was today's work:
David
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