TYNE Class Lifeboat build

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Hi Neil

We have to admire your Bulldog tenacity!

Keep up the good work

Bob

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

only ever given up on one boat I built from scratch and that was a model of HMS Kent from model maker plans. I used scrap timbers from the woodwork rooms I worked in……

I should have known better as all the timbers swelled and shrank in different proportions and she leaked like a sieve………….so never bothered finishing, and gave her to a mate who was headmaster at a school I later taught in……I have been given a couple to finish but wasn't interested in finishing so they don't really count.

I tend to pick my projects carefully on a points scale of interest and sail ability…….and I reckon this one will give me plenty of enjoyment, once built………….

but I only ever build one boat at a time unless they are very similar and am able to use the same techniques and fittings on them.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

i'm glad I had a little "play" with my toy lifeboat men last night……..because I realised that the floor was too low..

it was too low by an inch…..a foot in scale terms….from one extreme to another, and looked rather silly.

so tonight I fitted a false floor to begin with by putting some beading in, and then fitting a false floor. that raised it to the correct dimensions as taken from the plans.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

I then, fitted the panelling to the rear of the cabin to line up with the engine room companion way.

Tomorrow the side sills, which slope downwards from the bow to the stern of the grp cabin,and have been marked both top and bottom lines will be brought level just under the window line, which will allow the air conditioning outlets to fit onto the ledge. I re introduced my little fellows at this point and they could now see over the bottom window line, lol………success!!!

it will be then, that I will feel confident enough to tackle the forward bulkhead.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

This afternoon I made the side fillets for leveling up the window "sills" for putting the air conditioning units onto.



They were made of three pieces of plywood, measuring the needed 15mm thickness, and contained a total of 11 plies of timber, all glued together with aliphatic resin. the final pieces with capping tops will be glued to the grp cabin walls with 30minute epoxy.



I don't think they will twist anytime soon,

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Sorry Neil, but have missed something, why is the floor sloping?

Bob

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

an optical illusion Bob………….the floor isn't sloping but the roof of the cabin is……sloping to the bow, which then gives the measurements all a kilter on the sides attached to the cabin…….

but if you wait about an hour until glue has dried, all will be revealed as nice and straight.

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Thanks Neil

So I wasn`t asking a daft question then?

Bob

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

Oh no bob, not at all, and all will now be revealed.after the layers had set they were held in place whilst the top capping rails were measured up and cut to fit, and

the side panels were glued in place using 30 minute epoxy. Once set and cleaned up the capping tops glued on with aliphatic resin…..and now left to set.

And here is the result of my labours.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

 

and all done!

Edited By neil howard-pritchard on 15/07/2020 21:58:35

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Hi Neil

I can see some heavy duty construction going on here

What's that Bidet thing at the back.

Can we see a general view of your creation, please?

Your model is looking very business like now

Hope to see it at a Show one day?

Bob

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

Posted by Bob Abell on 16/07/2020 07:47:56:

Hi Neil

I can see some heavy duty construction going on here

What's that Bidet thing at the back.

Can we see a general view of your creation, please?

Your model is looking very business like now

Hope to see it at a Show one day?

Bob

that bidet isn't a washing machine, Bob……..its the main w/t hatch to the engine room.

yes probably be at Blackpool in a semi built state this October, and then once completed i'll probably bring it the Ellesmere port club and New Brighton lake for a sail next year.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

last night I saw the dawns early light whilst watching the old film, Day of the Triffids, and fabricating the port side compasnionway for the W/T door into the lower bow survivors cabin, heads and other stuff, plus I made the starboard side partition between the helms controls and the radar screen…..coming on slowly……all in a rough state but need to be filled and sanded down later.

and then this afternoon, started to put the parts into position, using aliphatic resin.

a few clamps needed, lol.

 

 

Edited By neil howard-pritchard on 16/07/2020 19:58:39

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

what do you mean by a "general view" Bob, and i'll take one for you.

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

I mean a general view of the overall model

Bob

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

oh right…….well there is a small problem there Bob in that the inner cabin deck doesn't fit into the receptive hole in the deck at the moment, as the raised combing that the inner cabin rests on needs trimming down, and I haven't been too bothered to do that until the main fitments are made in the cabin.

however as those will hopefully be completed by late tonight, I will "attack" the combing tomorrow with a grinder lol.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

and I had to finish it before I got under the duvet..

the forward bulkhead in the main cabin has been fitted.

i'll get the stands for the 6 seats done next.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

just for you Bob, some general views of the boat so far

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

I finally got round to trim the combings down so that the inner cabin tray could fit in.

I then offered both the cabin and the iner tray up to the boat.

slight discrepancy in the measuring, and the cabin fits down to the deck, but the inner tray sinks lower onto the combing leaving a gap down the sides, the rear of the cabin and just above the fore bulkhead meeting with the front window frames by about 6 mm.

as such I will fill those with a small fillet of cherry tomorrow

not a big deal in the grans scheme of things.
but this evening as I had said to myself last night, I made the tapering pedestals in two different heights for the 6 chairs for the cabin.

Edited By neil howard-pritchard on 18/07/2020 00:52:30

[Bob Abell 2Participant @bobabell2]

Thank you, Neil

At last, we can see what you've been messing about with, all this time!

It looks like a battlefield with all that junk lying about!…….Only pulling your leg, old chap

Bob

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

Posted by Bob Abell on 18/07/2020 05:35:40:

It looks like a battlefield with all that junk lying about!…….Only pulling your leg, old chap

Bob

you are not the first, and you wont be the last to have a go at my workshop Bob…….even the most exalted of us, Colin Bishop and Dave Milbourn have commented in the past……..my rule of thumb is, if you clear all your work spaces and put the stuff away, at my age you cant remember where you put the sodding stuff, and you just replace it with more junk.………so what's the point. lol.

[neil hpParticipant @neilhp]

there's a Myford lathe under that lot somewhere lol.

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Neil

I have a solution to the problem of the cluttered workshop…get a new workshop.

This has worked well for me over the past 20 years unfortunately I have run out of garden so I can not build any new workshop or storage spaces.

At some point I will have to open up the old workshops and clear them out, but it will be like opening Pandora's box….all those tools and models that you haven't seen in years. You just can't get rid of them so you need a solution.

A new workshop!

ouroboros

[Colin BishopModerator @colinbishop34627]

Wormholes might provide extra space Paul but if all your modelling disappears into a black hole then you are stuffed!

Colin

[Paul TParticipant @pault84577]

Colin

Why didn't I think of wormholes.

I can store an infinite number of items in an infinite number of shelves in my wormhole workshop and all I need to worry about is causing a rift in the space/time continuum , which is a small price to pay for infinite storage.

But we have a responsibility to the storage auction programmes that proliferate in the tv schedules as without a time machine or Tardis they won't be able to continue or move the massive amounts of stock through time.

Perhaps we should use Z space instead of wormholes, as a virtual space this has an endless capacity to create workshops and storage without risking ripping a hole in reality.

This could well be the secret of the yellow storage units that are springing up all over the UK.

How do you patent an idea that applies to a time machine, I presume that you would have to travel back in time to the first patent office and club/batter your way to the front of the queue.

Paul

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