Josie Olsen

It appears for about an hour a few times a day, I have to see my Doc next week I'm hoping it's wax build up on ear drum and a flush out will fix it I've never experienced it before.

yep.............been living with it n taking betahistine for it for 25 years or more.............and if I stand up too quick, I go dizzy n fall down............great stuff getting old, lol.

the more noisy the world and your surroundings get, the more people will suffer from it.

Such a relief when it goes away.

You are lucky Damien, if it does for you.

I am plagued with it 24/7/365 ............just a constant ringing in my ears.......especially at night when all is quiet.

I suppose you grow to ignore it most of the time.

Jim.

Some times just like pressure in the ear others it's so loud it drowns out my hearing aids, tv & workshop tools.
See the Doc tuesday for blood test results so I'll tell her whats going on.

Trimmed to shape, got a little heavy handed sanding them and managed to delaminate  the top layer of the port side 1.5mm ply deck.



To stiffen it up I rough cut some 1.5mm ply scrap and glued it to the underside of the planks a little over size as seen in first pic.



The gap filled with light weight filler ooop's looking at next pic shows a glaring fault in starboard hull shape at deck level more filler needed.

Second coat of high build primer and a little spot filler.





Prior to priming I applied light weight car body filler to the Starboard side  stern at deck level where she was out of shape.



The 29c day turned to rain stopping another coat of primer.

Outside hull had final coat of primer and upon checking the plan my forward deck planking goes 30mm too far astern a bit of cutting tomorrow, also the stand I made her will need significant lowering of the side retainers as they will currently interfere with the hull to underside of deck braces.
On the up side I've marked where the braces need to be will mark the waterline tomorrow with a liuttle help from my missus.

 

Looking good and smooth Damien. 

Barrie

Thanks Barrie. 

Decided to get a start on the wheels only to discover the 24 wheel blades and the wheel inner discs have disappeared started cutting new ones from 2mm polystyrene only to discover the plastic handle on my guillotine flexes and cuts out of square the square & the base also flexes so mounting on 12mm MDF coming up Hmm perhaps it's more for balsa.
Machined 4 new 60mm inner discs on the lathe.
Just awaiting arrival of 10mm dia brass from Hong Kong to turn the wheel centres.

Deck to hull braces fitted & only glued thumb & forefinger to braces 6 times.

 

More progress Damien Keep up the good work

Shame you lost and have to remake those parts, have a last look to see if you can find them, you know what will happen, you'll make new ones then find the originals.......................

No I recently had a clean up and threw out a lot of old vitamin and pill bottles they were in on of them the wheel rims and spokes were store separately it not good getting older 

GRRRRRRRRR grumble,  a polite way of saying what i called myself after finding my carefully laid out deck support braces on port side were 6mm further forward than starboard side.

All good removed them and made new supports and got the the rudder servo fitted in place.

First wheel centre machined just needs to be drilled and tapped the second is part machined it got too warm in the shed 33c outside today.

Roll on summer, plenty of frost around here at the moment

Sounds like you could do with air conditioning Damien

Aircon in a zincalume shed under the carport   we don't have aircon in the house   & Gov't not likely to put it in.
And temp's forecast for next 6 days  33, 34, 31,27, 32, 19c still 2 months of summer

Second centre turned no need for pic it's identical to first.
That's it until possibly this evening as it's 38deg C in the shed.

Decided today was start the wheels day whilst searching for the pre cut spokes I pulled the brown paper from this pill bottle.

 

And what did I find? The lost wheel centres and floats.



Subsequently found the spokes and built one rim.

Good news then

I thought so Paul I went out before dinner and turned it upside down to build the other thought I'd done well until after dinner I went out to assemble the 2nd wheel to discover I'd put the centre  disk in place but had forgotten the 2 rings and glued the together 40 minutes later I had salvaged the original half had to cut another centre disc.

The original half with the remains of the 2nd centre.

 

The new centre and 12 new spokes.

putting those wheels together, matey.........you have the patience of a saint............looking good, and that hull is superb.

  More like the frustration of the damned 

First wheel ready for assembly.

 

First half of second wheel done the arrow on hub is a key for later assembly it will be turned spokes down and the other half is built on top when assembling the arrows assure perfect alignment of the paddles.



All four rims complete.

Coming on nicely now Damien , I'm looking forward to seeing the completed paddle wheels

Not long now Paul, 
Wheel centres drilled and tapped 3mm.

You're becoming the paddle wheel expert Damien. How many set is this you've made?
Looking good.

Barrie

3 sets Barrie.

I had intended using a burr in my Dremel to put grooves in the mating surfaces prior to epoxying now thinking I'll drill 1.5mm and use stainless pins.

I am mesmerised by this build.

A much better outcome today, the parting tool was efficient to remove the wheel from the centre hub the removed Polystyrene replaced by 5 min epoxy.

Both wheels assembled several of the floats are not quite 90 deg to the rims some how a couple of spokes must have moved whilst drying.

A complicated job there Damien, they look ok to me, it will still look ok if a couple of bits align wrong. In reality I bet there was a margin of error or a in any case they would have had repairs done over the years just to get her moving again.

Better than any I made   



Barrie

A pair of pic's of the repairs perhaps I was nit picking but it didn't look right to me.

superb but one hell of a job.........you have the patience of a saint.

As my mother was want to say (YOU DIDN'T HEAR THE WORDS HE WAS YELLING)

Wheels temporarily in place, a few changes to the wheel area as with wheels hard against the hull the the wheels are still proud of the deck cabin lines.
As seen in this pic.






Rudder servo installed, as there is no room for a tiller arm I make a small brass pulley and use cord from both sides of the servo arms the other thought is a short piece of bowden cable.

Finding the control tube inner & outer binding when bent to shape I needed to change to cord control I re-positioned the Rudder servo to the centre line and turned 2 x 9mm dia pulleys that will sit either side of the tiller arm.
I use the brass section of an electrical terminal block and some brass sheet for the tiller arm.

This pic shows the pulleys and tiller parts.

Progressing very nicely Damien. 

Thanks Brian It's given me more bad moments than I'd like though.

I can see that reading through your build log, but you are up for it and overcoming all the problems, health, extreme weather, materials not co-operating as we would like.
Thought, you're are not expecting a plague of Locusts or Termites about now? 

It always gives me a lift to see your work and how you did it your way.

Thanks Mate 

 You had to open ya mouth Brian we have flying beetles about 6 x 8mm in their hundreds attracted to any light