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Hello again, great to have you along.
More catching up today but first I’ll tell you of my happier mood. Last year I had operations on my left hand and arm, a few weeks ago I had a further operation on my arm, one that was causing concern. About six inches of muscle was removed along with some lymph nodes, it wasn’t very pleasant. I’d now lost much of the feeling in my arm and along with my missing fingers I wasn’t overly optimistic about my ability to make things. A couple of days ago all the dressings were finally removed, I was surprised at how neat a job had been made, it was healing nicely and most importantly feeling and reasonable movement was returning, so a happy Ken.
My last post was the finishing of the first planking which I thought was quite successful, this post shows the next step. I covered the entire hull with my favourite filler, Osmo, a water based filler that comes in many shades, it goes on smoothly, is hard but sands easily. After sanding I got the hoped for finish with all the unevenness removed and was now able to concentrate on getting the ports done.
The 1:1 plans were invaluable and made getting their positions correct fairly easy. I used the upper ports as the datum points, I measured out and drilled a pilot hole at the centre of each port. I then made up a template with a rod through its centre, I placed the rod into the pilot hole and drew in the port. When they were all drawn and after checking several times I cut them out. I placed the template into the centre holes and used it as an accurate cutting guide I cut with a fresh surgical scalpel, I found that with a few light passes a clean opening was easily achieved, no problems, just a lot to do. Next will be lining them.
Excellent Plans
This shows my simple template in use
More catching up today but first I’ll tell you of my happier mood. Last year I had operations on my left hand and arm, a few weeks ago I had a further operation on my arm, one that was causing concern. About six inches of muscle was removed along with some lymph nodes, it wasn’t very pleasant. I’d now lost much of the feeling in my arm and along with my missing fingers I wasn’t overly optimistic about my ability to make things. A couple of days ago all the dressings were finally removed, I was surprised at how neat a job had been made, it was healing nicely and most importantly feeling and reasonable movement was returning, so a happy Ken.
My last post was the finishing of the first planking which I thought was quite successful, this post shows the next step. I covered the entire hull with my favourite filler, Osmo, a water based filler that comes in many shades, it goes on smoothly, is hard but sands easily. After sanding I got the hoped for finish with all the unevenness removed and was now able to concentrate on getting the ports done.
The 1:1 plans were invaluable and made getting their positions correct fairly easy. I used the upper ports as the datum points, I measured out and drilled a pilot hole at the centre of each port. I then made up a template with a rod through its centre, I placed the rod into the pilot hole and drew in the port. When they were all drawn and after checking several times I cut them out. I placed the template into the centre holes and used it as an accurate cutting guide I cut with a fresh surgical scalpel, I found that with a few light passes a clean opening was easily achieved, no problems, just a lot to do. Next will be lining them.
Excellent Plans
This shows my simple template in use
