Thread: "toy" boats

Midgster, try the tube and matching rod for stained glass jewelry boxes.....

Originally Posted by Wood Butcher

Duckman,
This is the same article as the one I remember but the name of the book is different. Well Done.

That's cool.

I'm tipping that Reader's Digest pull articles from several published books, put them together and then give the 'new' book a new title and then flog it to the unsuspecting masses.

Gonna have to build a few of these boats myself......

Cheers,

Mark.

Originally Posted by echnidna

Slow down Midge or you might actually finish a job.

Nah... this is the fast bit!

Finally tonight a pic of the fair (almost fair) hull with a coat of sanding sealer. One of the good things about clear finishing boats is that the timber grain takes the eye away from the bumps, there's a bit of work to do in the bow, but only a few minutes with some 120 grit.

Christopha... I reckon it'll come up a corker for a fiveyear old, it's a perfect size for a "proper" sailing boat, and it's quite robust as well. (In WRC!)

Cheers,

P

Originally Posted by Daddles

Bloody Midge - another bloke who sweeps his workshop before taking photos. I'm still looking for the circular saw I dropped in the shavings last week. :eek:

Richard

Know the feeling !!

Be gentle with me chaps!

Don't forget the workshop is actually part of the house, so one has to do one's best to keep walking stuff inside, or one's disconnected but none-the-less valued private bits may find themselves going through a jointer closely followed by oneself!!

Strange how dust can turn a woman!

The epoxy coating on the floor helps to hide stuff in the photos too!

Cheers,

P

What better way to finish of a day of doing "Satdy stuff" than to progress the little fella a bit further!

Pulled out a bit of lead flashing I scrounged yonks ago for this very purpose and cut it to size, dressed it round the bottom half of the keel, then pinned it with a couple of brass tacks.

Next will inject epoxy down the few hairline gaps at the leading and trailing edge (with a syringe), and give the outside of the ballast a bit of a coat with epoxy bog to encapsulate the lead and make it a bit fairer.

1) I love this patternmaker's vice! Used upside-down this time holding in the small jaw dressing the lead to the shape of the keel.


2) Did I mention that I love the patternmaker's vice? Crimping the trailing edge of the keel.

3) Can't have enough masking when you are playing with epoxy!

Looking good Midgster

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

....the gears for the steering that I pinched from an old photocopier years ago have gone into hiding,..... .....Then I realised that the Warehouse will surely have a clock for sale for $2.00 and who knows what other goodies will lurk inside as well as the two gears!...

G'day

Describe for me, in pictures less than a 1000words, the cogs/gears you need/require/desire. I have several bits of computer printer 'good junk' that may do the job for the princely sum of a beer & a stamp.

Approx number of teeth/diam etc.

Don't count on finding any gears in any clock at the whorehoure, the $2 ones are all digital nowdays.

Cliff,

The plans are a bit skinny on the detail, as I said I had a pair from a photocopier and think they could have been perfect but lost 'em!!

Plastic, the big one is probably about 30mm max dia, but size doesn't matter! We need a 2:1 ratio or there abouts, loads are very light - to quote the plans:

...basically just two gears, with one having twice the number of teeth of the other, but of course meshing with it. Nylon gears are probably the best, but clock wheels could be used if thick enough and if they can be fitted without free play or wobble. The larger gear is secured to the rudder stock and the smaller fitted on a brass nail or length of wire so that it meshes with the large one, but can be lifted upward out of mesh, droped back into mesh in a different place

Cheers,

P (fingers crossed! I did get a couple of gears out of a servo but they aren't much bigger than a threepence so might be a bit hard to work!)

Cheers,

OK!!!!!! 57Kgs of junk printer parts are in the mail..... COD


Only joking..... the nice lady at the post office says she doen't know where Mountain Creek Qld "The Home of the Biting Midge" is.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Only joking..... the nice lady at the post office says she doen't know where Mountain Creek Qld "The Home of the Biting Midge" is.

What is she, a Victorian???

Mountain Creek shares the same Post Code as the lesser known Mooloolaba, I think this is only so the people living in Mooloolaba can get the benefit of our cheaper land valuations.

Cheers,

P

I think it was the bit about the "The Home of the Biting Midge" that tossed her....

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

I think it was the bit about the "The Home of the Biting Midge" that tossed her....

Hmmm... now I see why!

Some days the trip to the Post Office is not at all entertaining. Today was not one of those days!

Many thanks, and if anyone needs the other 56.9 kg of plastic gears for their version, let me know!!

cheers,

P

Well I KNOW it's been a month since I last made any progress on the little 'un ... but we've had things going down!!

In response to all those PM's (you lot are worse than a wife!!), here's where she's up to.

Keel ballast is now leaded and faired (took a zillion coats of primer, a bit of wood filler and a couple of coats of silver frost... not perfect (bugger!) but looks ok, and this isn't meant to be a museum piece after all.

Tonight as the pic shows, I ripped some WRC and glued some 2mm thick bits together for the deck, in three pieces with small strips of Surian between to give a bit of a lift. I'm thinking of doing a Surian strip like a bit of guitar purfling round the deck perimeter, but I'll lie down soon and hopefully those thoughts will go away.

Cheers,

P