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📝 Rudder servo
12 days ago by 🇬🇧 Kevin55 (
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Rudder servo bracket and link arm completed and installed will remove and start the next stage of the build.
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📝 Anchor home and hawse pipe position
15 days ago by 🇬🇧 Kevin55 ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Anchor home fabricated and hawse pipe position set out with acrylic template.
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📝 Rudder 1st fit
20 days ago by 🇬🇧 Kevin55 ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Rudder stock made and fitted to rudder and installed to check alignment.
All ok…
All ok…
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📝 Bearing sleeve
21 days ago by 🇬🇧 Kevin55 ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Bearing sleeve with two ball races and a shaft seal. Installed and bonded into place with resin.
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📝 Rudder update
30 days ago by 🇬🇧 Kevin55 ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Second part of the rudder in its final stages before making the rudder stock and bearing sleeve.
The bearing sleeve is to have a shaft seal to stop the water from entering.
Bearing stub arbours added today
More soon..
The bearing sleeve is to have a shaft seal to stop the water from entering.
Bearing stub arbours added today
More soon..
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📝 Working on the Rudder
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Kevin55 ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Started work on the rudder today and made some good progress.
One half ready to bond into grp hull once I have the second half ready to test against it.
Plenty to do but I am trying to get into the habit of updating in small sections.
One half ready to bond into grp hull once I have the second half ready to test against it.
Plenty to do but I am trying to get into the habit of updating in small sections.
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📝 Axial alignment of both paddle shafts
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Kevin55 ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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I have removed both of the paddle shafts from the gearboxes.
Then installed both of the gearboxes with a long setting shaft that passes through both l gearbox bearing assemblies.
This has aligned both gearboxes allowing them to be secured in the correct position. The long setting shaft can now be removed and the gearboxes removed and rebuilt.
The rest of the build can now proceed have reached this important stage.
Then installed both of the gearboxes with a long setting shaft that passes through both l gearbox bearing assemblies.
This has aligned both gearboxes allowing them to be secured in the correct position. The long setting shaft can now be removed and the gearboxes removed and rebuilt.
The rest of the build can now proceed have reached this important stage.
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💬 Re: Axial alignment of both paddle shafts
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Kevin55 (
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Some jigs and fixtures have been made to make some of the parts.
Simple Press tools and form tools have also been made to ensure uniformity. My milling machine and lathe both have digital read outs which have help enormously with the accuracy.. ▲
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💬 Re: Axial alignment of both paddle shafts
1 month ago by 🇦🇺 stevedownunder (
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Hi Kevin55,
Wow, that is some beautiful/magnificent model engineering. Lots of finely crafted components in each assembly. Did you make jigs for manufacturing some of the parts? Cheers, Stephen. ▲
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📝 Checking in the pond
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Kevin55 ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Both gearboxes and paddle wheels plus batteries and ESCs to check how it’s sitting…
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💬 Re: Checking in the pond
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Kevin55 (
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Hi
Yes, the model is sitting high in the water which is ideal because of the items yet to be made and attached. I am keeping an eye on the weight of components above the deck due to the hull being shallow. Another battery and water pump have yet to be added for the fire monitor so this will help. I have tried to contact others that have made this model with the fibreglass hull but to no avail. ▲
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1 month ago by 🇺🇸 chugalone100 (
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Kevin:
I may be mistaken, but from the picture you posted it seems the paddle wheels might be sitting a little on the high side, with perhaps not quite as much contact with the water as one would expect. Maybe once the rest of the structure and the remaining components are added, the wheels will naturally sit a bit lower and the immersion will look just right. 😎 ▲
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💬 Re: Checking in the pond
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 GaryLC (
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Kevin, please check your Private Messages, there should be one from me.
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📝 Paddle wheel and gearbox video
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Kevin55 ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Last video showing the paddle wheels and reduction gearbox running slow.
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📝 Paddle Wheel test Tank
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Kevin55 ( Petty Officer 1st Class)
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Please excuse the video quality as I am not to good at this aspect.
Testing the paddle wheels before commencing with the final fit out of the two wheels and gearboxes.
Testing the paddle wheels before commencing with the final fit out of the two wheels and gearboxes.
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💬 Re: Paddle Wheel test Tank
1 month ago by 🇮🇹 AlessandroSPQR (
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Hi Kevin, I agree with all the positive comments you've received.
You're truly amazing with mechanics, congratulations. Now I have a point of contact for these kinds of issues. If I need advice in the future, can I ask you? ▲
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