Artesania Latina Anatomy of Lord Nelson’s HMS Victory Trafalgar 1805

[TonyJ]

Video 19 - (Part 1)
In this video I start to work on the pumps. Not sure what these parts are actually called but they were fun to build.




You are required to use some brass tubing here.




The instructions ask you to use the fret the parts came off to align them when gluing, very clever again AL!












Making this round hole into a square one was a bit fiddly. But it did have me singing English singer songwriter Chris Rea's "Square Peg Round Hole". Great song!




The long tweezer like pump parts required to be wrapped in bands of strip. This is a quick and easy way to cut them.








The hand pump part needs to be made hexagonal. This required some simple mathmatics.



The strip was 4mm square so 4 x 5.77 gives you about 2.3mm. I measured around the strip about 2.3mm and drew some limes to sand too. Worked OK.



The metal hand pump is now attached to its hexagonal counterpart.





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T

 

[TonyJ]

Video 19 - (Part 2)
More pump work.








I gave the pump handle a little silver dry brush to bring out some detail.







I think these are bilge pumps but please don't hold me to that. Anyway they required some brass parts.


A toothpick was the perfect tool to hold the part whilst I cleaned it up.




Hand pump installed.


The long part travels through the base of the hull and is secured there.








These parts are glued to what I will call the "Keel"



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T

 

[TonyJ]

Video 20 - Complete
Capstans.

Lots of parts.




Another clever piece of engineering is to have the central column slightly offset, this makes it a breeze to align everything.















2nd Capstan. Much of the same.





However I did run into one issue. When I was removing these lower vertical spars from the fret they just fell apart. It looks to me there may have been some with the gluing when the ply was formed. Not a problem I just made some from scratch.









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T