Yes just scrape it into the gaps left by the pins make sure you fill the gaps then scrape the majority off or you will just be sanding it off after it hardens Yours Brian

Hi coffee sticks are available from hobby craft shops in the UK they are longer than the normal coffee shop ones plus they do not have the waxy coating that some coffee shop ones had
Re the gaps between the planks black filler as used for plastic bumpers works well I have laid the planks with a pin in between them when the glue is dry fill the gaps with the filler Yours Brian

Bikerbob can you let me know if you can email me or do you want me to post the plans
I will be in hospital for the day tomorrow but will get my daughter to get them to you Yours Brian

HI pm me your email address as they are all on A4 sheets I can email them to you save the postage
Brian

look on the Thames sailing barge site there is a plan of a barge for free download if you have problems let me know and I will send you a copy I am now 73 and built mine when I was 15 been refurbished a few times
It started as a modeling program on BBC tv Yours Brian

Have a look at the Eeze Bilt plans several different types of boat can cut up the plans and stick it on the balsa wood to sand it the line Yours Brian

I have one and the box with 14shillings on it that is old money.
I was told that they were made for meccano the chrome ones were made between 1963 to 1965 hope this helps

You could use 144 fittings not that much difference

have you tried slec in your browser

Several years ago my brother lived in Bideford and sailed on a lake at Ilfracombe also one close to Bideford went with him once but as I have never lived that way I have no idea where it was will ask him when he comes home from holiday

Hi Colin Mc D's our way have started using stirrer sticks that have wavy sides so can not match them up
some B&Q's will sell you a box of 5000 for a £5-00p

Phil As you said earlier you may have a leak on the prop tube if you do take all the paint of you will be able to sort it out from both sides
Brian

I recycled one of these all the rope boxes at the front had been ground off full of runs in the paint work it was a retirement present from his wife for a chap who did three tours on one when he was in the RAF the colours are the colours they were painted if the paint is flaking is it all over or just one place so could be rubbed down and repainted a picture might help. If you put the RAF roundel on the bow do not put the one with the yellow outer as these were rescue launches only
He said that there were rails along the sides and standing orders said they were not to be removed but they took them off and they fitted behind the rails on the side of the cabin they had a way of letting the boats know if any senior officer was around and would do a highspeed test out to sea fit the rails back then come in as he said it was hard handling a target along side with the railings in place
There is a book "sailor's of the RAF" you will need to get it from a library it shows several different views of the launches
hope this helps Brian

Years ago we had a chap who joined the club I was a member of at the time he came to the lake with a fire boat no paint but with an ic engine. We were not allowed to run ic someone gave him a motor that was big enough to run it In the spirit of the club someone sticks a transmitter in his hand so he can have a go as some members would bring more than one model but he refuses the offer.
Turns up the following week with a coat of white paint all over, looked as though he had poured it out of the tin and spread it with a yard brush and a 540 type motor which after two or three minutes starts to slow down so he brings it in.
one of the members picks it up lifted the top off touched the motor and burnt his fingers and asks where the motor from last week is; answer I thought I would try this one to see how it went.
Following week same boat same motor 540 only held in by two two inch wood screws tell him as the motor is loose ( flapping up and down as the screws are not tight) it will rattle and pull off the universal coupling well if I tighten them up the screws will stick through the bottom of the boat someone offered him some shorter ones but no he puts the boat on the water off jumps the coupling six foot from the bank some members go to get the rowing boat to get it he keeps shouting it’s getting lower in the water when its lifted out he had took the pipe off from the water pickup for the ic motor which had been connected to the water outlet the week before.
Turns up the next week with a new glass fiber hull with holes drilled in it for the twin motors and rudders puts it in the water starts, getting some bricks off the side of the lake and puts them in the hull.
When asked what he was doing "I am ballasting it down to the water line" then takes the brick and stones out all wet by this time and asks how much does a brick weigh?
One member said well a dry brick weighs x but that one is wet been on the side of the lake for over fifty years take it home and weigh it "carnt do that we only have bathroom scales at home" it is explained to him that he would have to take off the weight of any battery, motor superstructure etc.
Following week turns up with a toy jet ski when told it will not work with the other boats being on the water but we will come off so he can have a go with it he could not wait.
Puts it on six foot out it stops gets the transmitter throws it on the floor shouting I have had no help whatsoever from this club yet two members had been to his house each week for around six weeks helping him to pick a set of plans from the club library working out what wood he needed offered to take him to the model shop which would have been the following week.
The member who was taking him to the model shop just said You know you can only help someone who wants to be helped

Thank You ToraDog

I refurbished a model from someone who had one as we were asked as a club ( so I got the task ) to build one for a chap who lived local for his retirement as he had done several tours of duty on the RTTL boats We were only given a couple of months notice the chap lent us a book called Sailors of The RAF it had several different types of boats in it

looking for a glue to stick resin window frames to the main cabin of a Tyne class lifeboat which is plasticard styrene sheet thank you

tony 29h I built guardsman as my second model along time ago but decided to double it in size I made her so the whole deck comes off it is then held in position by the by the vent pipes which are 1/2" water pipe she is powered by a Volvo car aerial motor she is at present under going her first refit after 30 years. Brian

Like I was told when I started you have a scale model but you do not sail on scale waves or scale wind even on a pond

I asked my daughter to look for a pair of fishnet tights with square holes worked out just right sized holes she said they do different sizes come in and have a look but I refused besides doing my two rescue launches out of one leg a friend had the other for his fire boat . Another friend was looking for fishing nets for his drifter by himself was getting sniggers from the girl shop assistants until his wife walked in and explained what he was doing they then came over to help he said he did not know that there was so many colours and all the different patens so just take the wife in the shop with you
hope this helps. Brian🤞

If you are using 1/4" square ones I usually soak them in boiling water and then clamp them in position to dry.
On some models where they say 1/4" balsa I have used two pieces of 1/8" there by laminating them hope this is of some help

yes please have seen people use them but need more info as all I have had when asking is you should try them if you don't know what they are how can you try them Brian

We had a chap come up to us at a show with an arm full of battery drills he said most had not done more than half a days work broke the gear box on most of them we found the motors were great in models and did not draw more than a normal 540 several of us used the chuck put a wooden handle on the spindle behind the chuck gives you a small hand drill for small drill bits

I would think if you soak it with linseed oil you will not get glue to stick can you not just glue the bits back
I know that old plywood from years ago would come apart as the glue dried out some even had woodworm holes in from the trees hope this helps Brian

For a first time scratch build I would not recommend a James Pottinger plan
As you say some of the parts are at different angles this could be so they can fit them on the a size of paper that when folded it will fit into a magazine as I believe this was a free plan a few years ago I will have a look and see if I have it in my plans folder if I have I will come back to you Yours Scout

try dyofix lake shadow it's a concentrated food dye will not harm anything living in the pond except the weed we contacted one of the weed clearance company's would have cost £1000 just for them to come and look they told us to use it as most of the large golf clubs do
if you look on their website there is a calculator to tell you how much to put in but I think you can only buy it by the kilo if you get any on cloths it will wash out as I have done it several times

Have you got the + and - wires the right way round on the battery or is the motor to powerful for the speed controller
I put a fuse in the positive wire and it has saved several controller when connecting the wires the wrong way round on the battery hope this is of some help

Have you tried SLEC at www.slecuk.com they do ply from 0.4mm to 12mm hope this helps yours Brian

I have always used wheel bearing grease. I have a brass tube fitted to the prop shaft which is the same diameter as a grease nipple so slides into the grease gun Yours Brian

McDonald's have changed the shape of their stirrers all wavy sides

I have seen a deck with the planks held down with drawing pins to make the gap between them. This was into a wooden sub structure then the gaps between the planks filed with black bumper body filler Scout