Royal William, Euromodel, a retro log

[Ken]

Very nice build.

Use glue nozzles for CA. Cost virtually nothing online. When they clog just nip the tip off.

Remember that CA should be thrown away after three months opened. I occassionaly use the same type as you, but have never got through a bottle............

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Hi Richard, Thanks for the compliment. Like you I use these nozzles and like them, I do find that the tips are a bit long and not rigid enough like the needle for accurate control, however I mostly use low odour cyno now and this clogs up the needles more easily so these tips are proving better for this type of cyno.

 

[Ken]

Good morning, it’s good to have you following my build.

This is now where things got tricky. There were a large number of cast parts and a few pre cut ply bits that made up the transom but there was no guide as to what parts to use where or how it was to be assembled and the plans were of no use at all, they just showed the completed transom, this area was pure guesswork. It was like a Chinese puzzle that you needed two pairs of hands to hold parts whilst you tried to assemble it.

I selected the parts I thought were needed for this part of the build and then spent quite some time coaxing them into shape so that they would sit on the transom support and have some sort of relation to each other, had I not seen examples of it having been done on Keith Julliers book I would have said that it was impossible and given up but perseverance and I think a bit of luck got me there. I used clear canopy glue to attach the castings with some small dots of cyno to hold them in place whilst it set. I used this stuff because of its gap filling qualities, it is water soluble so any excess can be wiped away unlike epoxy which is pretty messy. I painted the parts prior to fitting. For making the deck above Euromodel supplied some precut pieces, I found that these appeared to be the wrong shape and couldn't be made to fit so I made up the deck from one piece of ply instead of the three supplied, I planked it and glued it into place, I also had some spare decorative strip which I glued around it's edge. I then touched up the whole area.

It’s too difficult to explain exactly how I assembled this transom level but maybe the sequence of photos might show in part how it was done.