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💬 Re: Casualty of war out of surgery
18 days ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H (
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I also had major surgery
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📝 saga of the fuse
26 days ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Great idea Toradog
What kind of circuit breaker do you use, where do you get it?
What kind of circuit breaker do you use, where do you get it?
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📝 saga of the fuse
26 days ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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I gave up using fuses years ago. They always caused a headache, no matter what size I used. It always seem to blow at the worst possible time. I realize I’m taking a chance not using a fuse but so often the least little bit of grass or leaves in the prop and the fuse blew and the boat ended up drifting around in the lake. If you don’t have a fuse, and your prop gets fouled, you can always go forward and a stern to clear it.
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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I am sinking like a submarine
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Another good answer is "none of the above"
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Good question. Ask the same question tomorrow, make it three in a row
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📝 Here I go again
1 month ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Cat will have that finished no time. Can't wait to get his paws on it. Most cats are model boat experts.
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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What happened?
No Royal Navy ship disaster today?
So AI has to ask about bulkheads again
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No Royal Navy ship disaster today?
So AI has to ask about bulkheads again
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Seems I already answered again, must have been my ghost. I wonder if I got it right?
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📝 Bluebird K-7 Obsession
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Bluebird K7, very cool I'd like to see someone do it with a real turbine
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Yes sir!
The good old B11, first in the Dardanelles. Very famous world renowned ship. Internationally well known loved and remembered, hero of the First World War.
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The good old B11, first in the Dardanelles. Very famous world renowned ship. Internationally well known loved and remembered, hero of the First World War.
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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What an easy question, everyone knows this and thinks about it everyday. UGH!
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Tomorrow’s question
What Royal Navy 🛳️ ship sank in Sicily on March 12th?
Titanic?
What Royal Navy 🛳️ ship sank in Sicily on March 12th?
Titanic?
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📝 American Scout C-2 Freighter
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Good choice, I will keep it in mind next time I need ballast.
Those tiles may not look the best on a bathroom floor but make excellent ballast.
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Those tiles may not look the best on a bathroom floor but make excellent ballast.
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📝 Harro koebke
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Congratulations, she's a beauty
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📝 American Scout C-2 Freighter
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Now that you have completed the weight test you can eat the soup.
My choice for weights is to visit then local tire shop and pick up all the discarded wheel balance weights. They can be cut up and placed in plastic bags. The same method works as source for weights I sometimes need during construction to hold parts in place temporarily.
My choice for weights is to visit then local tire shop and pick up all the discarded wheel balance weights. They can be cut up and placed in plastic bags. The same method works as source for weights I sometimes need during construction to hold parts in place temporarily.
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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AI navigated with a sunstone, now they are lost
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📝 Solder
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Beautiful work Greghiltz
Here is some of my soldering, now painted.
Little push tug has a mile of ladders and rails.
I will look into Antex, thank you
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Here is some of my soldering, now painted.
Little push tug has a mile of ladders and rails.
I will look into Antex, thank you
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📝 Solder
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Thanks to everyone for some interesting replies.
Yes, many of the small parts on my ships, ie. railings are made of brass and soldered with a small butane torch. That almost always works. I use soldering paste, which is as old if not older than the solder (50 years?) My favorite soldering iron is also ancient, I would like a new tip but the old one is not coming off. If it ever had a name that is long gone. ( may have been a Radio Shack) I have a couple of cheap soldering irons that I picked up here but there they are not as good as the ancient one with the rotting and stuck tip.😀😀
Does anyone have any suggestions for a new one? Anyone think I need fancy variable temperature electronic job? 🤓
Yes, many of the small parts on my ships, ie. railings are made of brass and soldered with a small butane torch. That almost always works. I use soldering paste, which is as old if not older than the solder (50 years?) My favorite soldering iron is also ancient, I would like a new tip but the old one is not coming off. If it ever had a name that is long gone. ( may have been a Radio Shack) I have a couple of cheap soldering irons that I picked up here but there they are not as good as the ancient one with the rotting and stuck tip.😀😀
Does anyone have any suggestions for a new one? Anyone think I need fancy variable temperature electronic job? 🤓
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📝 Solder
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Anyone have any thoughts on solder? I have some rosin core that is at least 40 years old. Doesn’t seem to work to well, balls up doesn’t spread as it should
I also have cheap newer stuff which is old enough to vote and drink which doesn’t work so well either,
Any thoughts on the subject?
Does solder expire? Should I toss it all out and spring for some newer better stuff?
I also have cheap newer stuff which is old enough to vote and drink which doesn’t work so well either,
Any thoughts on the subject?
Does solder expire? Should I toss it all out and spring for some newer better stuff?
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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I bet Vikings got lost a lot
Got this right twice in row
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📝 Question of the Day?
2 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Thank you AlessandroSPQR that was a vey interesting discussion of the vikings.
There is often some discussion of how or if the vikings were the first Europeans to "discover" America. I far as I understand they mostly stayed close to the coast when they sailed and were most interested in attacking and plundering places that were not well armed.
I feel that in order to be considered the discoverer of a place you have to be able to make a map to show other people where you have been and be able to make return trips to the same place. I haven't heard that Vikings were able to do this. Columbus actually was able to navigate accurately and made many return trips so I credit him with the discovery.
There is often some discussion of how or if the vikings were the first Europeans to "discover" America. I far as I understand they mostly stayed close to the coast when they sailed and were most interested in attacking and plundering places that were not well armed.
I feel that in order to be considered the discoverer of a place you have to be able to make a map to show other people where you have been and be able to make return trips to the same place. I haven't heard that Vikings were able to do this. Columbus actually was able to navigate accurately and made many return trips so I credit him with the discovery.
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📝 American Scout C-2 Freighter
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Sorry to hear about the car, Get her a nice new one. Those thing happen all the time, no one was hurt.
Did you say you have HO trains? So do I.
Did you say you have HO trains? So do I.
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📝 American Scout C-2 Freighter
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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You doing a beautiful job. Keep up the good work.
Good decision not to use the dried up balsa wood. That stuff wasn't even too good when it was new. It is difficult to get a good paint finish on balsa wood.
I am not good at all with plastic and prefer to use plywood.
The railings contribute greatly to the overall appearance of a model. I would look a HO trains and see what you can get.
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Good decision not to use the dried up balsa wood. That stuff wasn't even too good when it was new. It is difficult to get a good paint finish on balsa wood.
I am not good at all with plastic and prefer to use plywood.
The railings contribute greatly to the overall appearance of a model. I would look a HO trains and see what you can get.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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I am in the same boat, answering questions correctly but going nowhere fast. Rudder 😝is not working. I’ve been promoted to civilian.
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📝 American Scout C-2 Freighter
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Thank you for great explanation of DC motors.
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📝 American Scout C-2 Freighter
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Yes, Jumpy I was going to bring everyone's attention to it.🤣🤣 The shop looks a little dirty. That is the way that happens, the more the boat gets built the dirtier the shop becomes it is a sign of progress, and genius at work😜
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📝 American Scout C-2 Freighter
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Problem solved. Looks good. Next problem.
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📝 American Scout C-2 Freighter
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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WOWZA!
Beautiful and nearly done
Just a few details to go, deck superstructure, rigging etc. You’re making a great job of it. Take your time make the rest as nice as the hull.
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Just a few details to go, deck superstructure, rigging etc. You’re making a great job of it. Take your time make the rest as nice as the hull.
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📝 Question of the Day?
3 months ago by 🇺🇸 Commodore-H ( Lieutenant Commander)
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Got that one
Ask me same question tomorrow
Ask me same question tomorrow
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