Wow Chris, better.you than me lol!!
Cracking sir
Cracking sir
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I am talking about the large brass radar kit, rain coming in this after noon don't think I get a chance working in the shed. bought some magnet strips to stick in the battery drill tool box to hold the the screw driver bits in place, bought some more yesterday.
Going to work on the second bulkhead so I can join up all the hull sections together what a site that will be.
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HI TONY nice to hear from you an what little parts are you on about that clip in place ?
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I am talking about the large brass radar kit,
OK Tony well the large radar will be built with two siver collets an they tighten up by allen key fitted in it top an bottom of the radar to keep it sqaure on the main sharft pic of one belowComment
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Evening Chris.
Progressing well.
Will you be soldering that radar pe ?Comment
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HI John many thanks for all the likes
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HI EVENING to you as well John an im not really sure about solderin the radar as its biggee over 4 inches wide an may super glue it as i super glued a big 1022 radar on my HMS EDINBURGH over 20 yrs ago an its still ok as my boaty m8 bought it off me an he still sails her so solder or s-glue i will see when im ready an thanks for your intrest ATB STAY SAFE
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HI John regards that big brass p/e radar well i ive been havin a good think about how to build it an ive put on a pic below of what its like an its fairly complicaited how to go about this as if you look at the radar from the back view which the pic shows its made up of 8 box sections.
Now im thinkin that if i build it firstly then try an paint it as i will be usein rattle cans sprays an the paint come out fairly thickly its goin to be a hard job to spray paint inside the box sections an if i do try i think it will clog up all the tiny smesh so thats no good.
So my idea to build this is lay out the whole p/e sheet on the bench makin sure it dead flat an gently rub it down both sides with a very fine sand paper so it wont scratch it an then lightly spray both side of the p/e radar sheet then leave for a couple of days to let the paint harden.
Then i will cut out the parts an lookin at the plans gently rub off the paint on the edges of the brass parts an then super glue the parts togeather as if i use a solderin iron the heat from the iron will melt or burn off the paint as i do not have a iron where the heat can be turned up or down so to me thats the best way to go on this but i will try it out on another spare brass smesh firstly i hope that makes sence pic of said unit below pic below for discussion purposes onlyComment
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AN back to you John this is the spare radar that im goin to practise on before the bigee 1/72 scale an its a 1/96 SCALE 965 AKE-I the same radar but smaller against my hand you can see the size of it an i'll proberly learn a lot of lessons on how not to build it so that i dont make the same mistakes on the big 1/72 scale (phew i feel pooped already ) as this is gonna involve a lot of head sratchin as Bob said better me than him lol
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AN SO it can be seen the sheer size of this 1/72 965 AKE-1 RADAR another shot of it again against my hand an wrist an ive never built one this big before so a learning curve comin up on this i only hope i dont get the shakes when buildin this as it was v-exspensive chrisComment
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HI GUYS a little update on what ive been doin on her
an i'll have to leave that radar scanner for a bit as i need to get some very fine grade sand paper to take the shine off that P/E .So i thought id have a little go at the lights on the main mast as this is the easyiest one
here a shot of it with the cross member just laid out to get a general idea of how it will lookComment
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AN so i can fit this in an all the lights ive had to strip it all down to bits so that i can get all the wires down inside the mast in a tube so they dont get caught up on the radar shaftComment
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