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First Planking Finished
… of soak depends upon how much bend is required) rather than steaming. And certainly not crimpers. If I have a difficult place to get to where clamps or brass pins are difficult, eg round the bow, and I want an instant bond, then I use super …
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Phantom Tug
… build will hopefully represent a turn of the century harbor steam tug. She would have been employed shuttling barges around a local area and would usually tow her charge on the hip. It's totally scratch built and not representative of any p …
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Re: (Pleasure Craft) Glen Usk
Glen Usk the steam plant with water = 5lb the total weight of model = 9lb . So no need to be Tarzan. The hull 1/16 balsa covered in Ali plate. ( cut cider cans ). Made 2001 dropped twice once of bench other down stairs to my shop. Looks a b …
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Indecision
… were taken including more detail to the control panel and a steaming light and stern light. I'm undecided about adding a small boat to the cabin top as a lifeboat/dingy. Time will tell...
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Fort Valley
… corporate a reverse stem. Seeing photo's of the old stately steam tugs of the late 1800's and early 1900's I thought it would be a subtle enhancement to have the stem reflect the slight angle that the deck house and pilot houses seem to hav …
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Re: Time to get her bottom wet.
Very nice to see yet another convert to Steam, and that has to be the bargain of the year your boiler and a very nice steam engine for less than half price. I also managed a bargain out of Mr. Galgig an automatic gas control valve as the on …
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Time to get her bottom wet.
Picking Ulises to house my steam plant was after seeing a live steam version on YouTube. I later realised that his engine was a twin, single acting, oscillating unit. Probably half the weight of my engine. Needless to say I have had my worr …
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The Microcosm twin cylinder
… up plans I realised that to get enough displacement for the steam plant, the model would be too long for my car boot! I've run her on compressed air so far and performance is excellent. She happliy ticks over at about 100 rpm. I think she m …
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Re: Phantom Tug
Hi, the Preserved NZ steam tug, William C Daldy has this type of steering system, with chains running round the deck under covers, from the quadrant to the steering motor, ( pictured is the aux steering station behind the engine room, with …
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Re: Phantom Tug
… distance from the rudder to the servo is to scale. The old steam tugs that used chains here in the US had them run from the quadrant on the rudder post to a steam engine dedicated to the steering. This engine was housed in the aft end of t …
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Phantom Tug
… but under the hawser drying rack. I had seen images of old steam tugs that used chains and steam engines for the steering apparatus and decided the chain idea was worth pursuing. The initial problem was a quadrant for the rudder post head. …
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Vic Smead or Smeed?
… uardsman sounds good, I remember reading about a large size steam powered one in the September 2004 Model Boats magazine, don't think it was double size though. Guess you might have seen the photograph of the full sized cutter which Vic loo …
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Change of Tack
… es Nerys. For the first time in 50 years I have just had to steam the middle of a plank! I am currently building a live steam tugboat which has a curved strake running round the stern. An obvious candidate for bending from the centre. I use …
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Please help identifying old model ships
… ics inside. The green one had a stuart turner twin 10v live steam engine (still have it just removed). It is fibreglass hull. Pringles tube is there for size reference. Any help is much appreciated. Many thanks Adam
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Change of Tack
… of buying that one myself. The added heat on the wet plank, steams the plank from inside. Once cool, the bend remains, allowing the plank to be dry fitted against the hull. It can then be glued with almost no pinning or clamping. I can reco …
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I started my Cervia steam tug in 1972 and finished it last year in lock down
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Brooklyn Tugboat
… as built in 1910 and owned by the New York Dock Co. She was steam powered all her life and was never converted over to Diesel. The Brooklyn was one of many railroad tugs designed to transfer railroad cars from one side of New York to the ot …
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Greta
Are the round bow and stern carved blocks, or steamed strips? Yes, I know you cheated and bought a preformed hull
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Puffer update
When I started the puffer it was to be powered by steam.That changed after the hull was built.When placing the boiler in position the chimney would have been in the center of the hull.Also the steam plant would have to be hidden not what I …
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Boat Build Help
I have a 6ft paddle steamer with a steam plant. Built of 1/16” balsa impregnated with epoxy, still going strong. Finished in 2001. You do not need pitch pine or oak.
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Receiver Ariel
… lp required. Having finished my scratch built Cervia Thames steam tug, I fitted it with an old planet 6 channel radio set I had from a previous refurbished boat, it only needed 2 channel so didn't think it was cost effective to buy new, whe …
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Bow Rope Fairlead
… s, so, jug kettle to the rescue, I dangle both parts in the steaming kettle for four or five minutes then they are quickly transferred to the clamping jig and left overnight to set. Now we have the correct shape the piece has to be located …
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Windows
… s it was glued with contact glue so I administered a little steam and prised them off but damaged some edges of the window cut outs. Try as I might I could not fix this as the balsa was so soft so I cut pieces of 1.5 mm ply to fit where I c …
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Scottish Fiffie Fishing Trawler
… for your perusal. It is my intention to build a paddle boat steamer as my next project, I would appreciate it if someone would be in the position to let me have building plans for one with side paddles of approximately 800mm in length. Pref …
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Hull is finised painting
… on final details on cabin, interior deck area, and getting steam system working. Oh I learded the hard way DO NOT use the blue masking tape on top of laquer/Deft it comes apart on the laquer after several hours.
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Re: Update #3
… on lights In 1838 the United States passed an act requiring steamboats running between sunset and sunrise to carry one or more signal lights; colour, visibility and location were not specified. In 1846 the United Kingdom passed legislation …
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Restoring an almost 100 year old ship model
… .. Some facts about the original boat: DS «Hestmanden» is a steam-powered cargo ship, built by Laxevaag Maskin og jernskibsbyggeri, and handed over to Vesteraalen's steamship company in 1911. The boat is 195.6 feet long and 30 feet wide. It …
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Rubbing strakes
… clamp so I can just slot the piece in place when it’s been steamed for 3 minutes in the kettle, I then clamp along the length of the hull using elastic bands and scrap pieces of wood to press on the strakes to hold in position overnight (s …