SICK! thanks for sharing the link. yeah I was sitting there kinda like *huh, I bet that's probably a placeholder, but I should ask to be sure* because that servo has lower torque than the one I use in my class 5 boats. love the rough loft idea. that's a handy trick to have. one of the reasons I love wood and print is being able to do clean integrated mounts for stuff. cool to see that you can do clean mounts like that with just a rough measure, trim and go!
Oh hey BTW I talked with BrianK today about those secondaries. I'm gonna do the CAD work for em, then send the file so he can foam cast some for us. I'll give you a heads up when that starts happening so you can get in touch with him
Hey everybody, I just sent the STL file off to Brian K. if you need secondaries for your Vanguards, Brian can sell em to ya.
Able to get some build time in today I got the drag shafts in a couple months ago I worked on waterchannel today. Planning 1 pump forward and 1 aft. I decided to epoxy wood barriers in this time given the different features Front barrier for bow, the. Room for forward bottle, then fwd pump, mid bottle, aft pump going with 1/2” wide for most of the length stern area will be 1” to make a platform for aft solenoids I plan to use fetherlite to pour in the outer areas I had extra epoxy so I put rudder 1 together
Didn’t have any featherlite left so switched to subdeck today Traced onto wood. Hull is a good shape so beam was good/didn’t need any adjustments then I mark 3/16 to 5/32” inboard to account for hull rim. also drew in cross members and pump outlet holes cut out and good first test fit. forward outlet needed to avoid the superstructure, so further forward than I wanted but should work looking forward. Bow will be a separate piece. Planning to avoid a cross member around the motors , boat seemed fine stiffness wise. I’ll use a lip on the aft deck piece to make the joint between aft and mid pieces, aft piece will stay in place in most situations
awesome work! yeah I was planning the new subdeck similarly with regard to keeping the fwd and aft deck plates in place and making the mags such that I could reload them with the center plate removed. Hey so with the bow bend, did you kerf the underside of the subdeck to get it to bend proper?
The deck bends fine without need for cuts or anything I poured most of the waterchannel. bow was two part with the area around the bottle higher stern bow part 2 I left the middle empty incase I need to add lead later, and it can be filled with the deck in I cut the bow porting of subdeck and then glued them together in the hull so alignment would be good just used 1/8 ply to bridge the pieces, they get glasses into the hull so strength is not a big deal next step is tracing and cutting out the deck from 1/8 ply
I got the deck rim in today Traced from subdeck test fit I cut the large piece right at motor mounts. Plan is for aft piece with guns to stay in place most times stern bow drilled deck hold down holes prep for install much easier to install the deck studs now all clamped in place and epoxy drying stern view. The pieces of wood across the top aloe alignment with top of hull, then deck is clamped to that. I don’t use compression between the wood and side of hull to avoid lumps, the deck is slightly larger than the natural opening so there is enough residual pressure. I’ll fill in any gaps once the first epoxy batch dries bow
Pulled the clamps, came out good but lots of cleanup cleaned up top edge and taped edge to fill gaps from the bottom stringer made it harder, I think I got most of the edge filled in under the outlet tubes I prepped the barbs in fusion. I’m glad the Brit’s went with 15” guns, I was able to just tweak the QE barbs and the turrets were already done. Hopefully going to start printing tomorrow
Fusion sounds so much better than when I built a pair of Vanguard supers. They pretty much broke me for building new stuff for quite a number of years.
Progress on finishing up the deck rim Sealed from the top View attachment 32441 result of filling from the bottom came out nice printed the barbs and gluing them in. the bow deck is curved when attached so I fastened the deck while gluing them in. Barbs are held up with a screw through a cross piece, and blocks to the deck showing the bend aft barbs were easier bow single sidemount After dual guns Underside of aft deck. I doubled up the thickness to hold 4 guns and make an overlap portion for the mid piece one layer of fiberglass cloth on barb outside for enhanced BB resistance Excess trimmed off Deck rim sanded down and final coat over the whole thing I added magnets for the mid piece and between screw hold downs brushes out excess epoxy onto the underside of the deck pieces other things not shown include boring out the Forster breeches. Next steps will be magnets and epoxy coat of deck pieces, and then guns. She’s coming along
I got the deck magnets in and deck pieces coated in epoxy yesterday bilge keels on today first epoxy job from the bottom hopefully can chip away at a few things this week
Finished up the bilge keels this week Magnets for turrets started on guns. I added a backing piece on the elbow for the back feed threads to have enough to engage Here is set up for solder, getting the lower joint and the back piece in one go and complete elbows in their holders bow sidemount Ran some test fires on a different piston set up, trying out the recessed style Some quick hoses to test it out added adjustment screw to set piston height the gun did we’ll, cycles great and shot hard, 260fps at 130 psi without drilling the piston yet next will be be finishing the end caps and T’s for the guns, then mounting guns. All of the guts are coming from the Iowa so should come together quickly once the guns are done
