One of the things that didn't work on Sunday was the periscope system. On checking it, I discovered that the plastic manifold beneath the syringes had ruptured. That's one powerful little pump driving the system and it completely overpowered the manifold. (It also launched two of the periscopes when it was originaly run as a pheumatic system). Hence the new, bullet-proof manifold. Lovingly crafted in 15 minutes using a blow toarch and some very scared copper pipe. It ain't pretty but it does work.
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Can you control individual cylinders to raise/lower each mast?
Might have been simpler to use a single cylinder to raise/lower a platform holding all the mast together.Make it simple, make strong, make it work!Comment
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Exactly that. It took some time to decide on the pattern of tiles because every photograph that I looked at showed a slightly different pattern. The tile joints get slightly larger towards the rear of the sub. I don't know why; it just appeared that way in some of the photographs, so I replicated it. Before removing the masking I painted about 20% of the tiles a slightly darker balck and about 5% in blue/black just to get some variation in them.Comment
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Hi Bart,
Exactly that. It took some time to decide on the pattern of tiles because every photograph that I looked at showed a slightly different pattern. The tile joints get slightly larger towards the rear of the sub. I don't know why; it just appeared that way in some of the photographs, so I replicated it. Before removing the masking I painted about 20% of the tiles a slightly darker balck and about 5% in blue/black just to get some variation in them.
Thks Scott.
Grtz,
BartPractical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
"Samuel Smiles"Comment
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