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There's a very special place in Hell for smart-asses... Ed!...

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I promised BuShips drawings, but could only dig out this 'current condition' plan prepared for/by the museum that now has custody of that boat. The foil...

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Note taken.

David...

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I gave the two laid-up GRP hull parts three days to cure hard in their tools, then popped them out. Though eventually I'll use these hull halves to make...

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Behold!

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GRP is glass. It will tear that saw up in five strokes....

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60/40 Tin/Lead does it for me. But you are also well served using that dumb-ass non-lead solder the greenie-whinnies are now pushing down our throats....

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Carbide cut-off wheel (thin, unreinforced), or diamond wheel. Minimal kerf.

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The square rod rotates about as well as traditional round rod in the bearing surfaces; provides a 'flat' for the pushrod control-horn set-screw; and...

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Wheel-collar. Du-Bro Makes 'em....

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Excellent presentation (your nomenclature takes me back to my unlimited rubber and A-1 tow-line FF design and build days).

I have booklet...

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I laid up an upper and lower after section of hull -- that would become a master for the tail-cone which in turn would be used to make a rubber tool for...

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LOL. Perfect tune for the salvage Diver to home in on.

David...

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Because it will deploy when you don't want it to. When the propeller is indeed turning. A thing intended to save a submarines sinks a submarine.
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Whenever I hear 'tethered buoy' I think, fouled propeller.

David...

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Your research here is timely for me. I'm finishing another 1/72 THRESHER and want to do those vertical stabilizers right. If you come up with any new...

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Indeed!......

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Bite me you patronizing, smooth-talking, sardonic, squid-throwing, bacon munching, white creature from the great northern wastes! Why do I put up with...

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Good call on the sail attachment, it's what I do. And don't worry about breaking off the masts -- Trumpeter got the array completely, utterly, tragically,...

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It's most refreshing to see a traditional model-builder at work. Most instructive, sir.

David