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We must draw the attention of the captain of his ship because he does not comply with regulation 30 of COLREG:Nigel, if your vessel sees a lot of time in the sun your brilliant red will eventually start to turn a dull shade of red. My Canadian Engineer is going that way and the deck has an obvious tint of pink to it. This is over a period of fifteen years, but I guess it's authentic.
Jim
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Amazing work!!Progress is a little slow at the minute.
Work is really busy and plenty of overtime available so I am banking it while it is there as I seem to be spending a fortune on tooling. Next on shopping list is full 3 axis DRO for my mill
Back to the build
My propshafts are installed with the flanges in my last post slipped on during assembly. I had to use a grain of wheat build inserted in the props aft to ensure the the oil holes aligned with the tubes. The tubes are boned in place using Locktite 638 bearing fixture.
I turned two brass sleeves to aid engine alignment with the flywheels temporarily removed. The pictures show the oak bearer now bonded into the hull with Stabilit Express two part adhesive. Next job is to clean up what has oozed out and general tidy up the glue joints inside of the hull before continuing with the deck beams and boiler supports.
PS The propellers are fitted backwardsI realised this afterwards but doesn't matter, they were only fitted temporally to get the shaft end position inside the hull
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