as regards the sander and discs that i paid 12 quid for…….the discs arived without sander……..even though the company sent an invoice saying 1 x b n d sander plus sanding discs……on yer bikes, what a scam, which has been reported to eay.

Anyway

Been on a bit of a bender this evening!

NO!!!, not what you lot think?

I am almost out of propane gas for my brasing torch, so got my weed burner out, and along with the heat from the propane torch, and the butane grass/weed burner i had enough to aneal the brass rod to end them into 3 sets of Jumper net "davits" and the davits for the anchors. I will make the rigging rings and cleats to solder on to the davits tomorrow, and if [as it says] the weather warms up at the weekend as our illustrious and disbeleavable meteoralogists predict, I can silver solder them all up ready for eventual rigging.

SUCCESS!!!…….I have found a stockist of Calor Propane that has exchanged my almost empty and 10 year old bottle for a new full one.

The problem I had was that it was only a 3.9kg bottle, and they are as rare as rocking horse poo………but as this one lasted me ten years, the new one might outlast me……at least in the modelling world, lol.

I can at least now do some silver soldering of my bits and pieces, and once I have done all the silver soldering, i will then start sanding the hulls smooth ready for building.but that might be after Christmas.

I placed plastic tubing to the centre of the cross on each of the quad legs for the searchlight platform this evening.

Then placed a top and bottom [from 2mm plasticard on to the plastic tubing, trapping the brass brazing rod inside the structure, and finally placing a thinner 1mm raised panel on to the top of the platform on which the searchlight will sit on the aft end of the boat.

a seperate white coloured etching flux Richard.

comes as a powder and you can either dip the water doused solder rod into it, or mix the powder with water into a paste [ which i prefere] and apply it with a thin piece of wood used as a spatulat into the place where you need the solder to flow.

Just a case of cleaning it all up with needle files after that.

Edited By neil howard-pritchard on 21/12/2022 23:49:51

Still too cold for comfort to go into my workshop to carry on readying the two hulls for painting by Dave Stavros Jones, and so!

I have brought my workshop back into my house to clean, sand and sort the mirriad of different fittings for the 3 boats that I made the mouldings for.

And there are hundreds of them, 6 different sizes of w/t hatches for a start, and some of them multiple, 30 hatches in all and excluding the resin cast 4 more fittings per hatch to fit……120 fittings in total……….

All takes time, plus the casting time of the small fittings on top of it all. lol.

funnily enough, my birth father and grand father were both pattern makers, and master cabinet makers in their lifetimes, although i never knew my actual blood father as he died of a heart attack when i was just 15 months old……….

but i certainly inherited his and his fathers genes for my woodworking skills and "pattern making" in the wooden plugs i make for fibre glass mould making! of which i will be forever eternally gratefull.

thanks for the encouragement…..Living in Fleetwood as an infant, my spent most of my time in and around the station.

next job which took me most of this afternoon and evening, was fitting the ferruls to the 3 different sized ventilator cowels, ready for the shafts, and then the bases.

these are for 3 models of course, not just a single boat.

Edited By neil howard-pritchard on 03/01/2023 21:09:25

The cable stoppers and cable cutters have been made from parts that were generic with the later 51' Barnett class lifeboat that I built some 10 years ago, and still had parts for.

These are for the later 60/61' Barnett class boat.

The ones for the prototype 60' boat William and Kate Johnston are different.