I still have a lot of work to do. It'snot difficult work but it is tedious. Means many hours working on it. However I am targeting April as the launch date for sea trials, gunnery and maneuvers. Once working I will begin filming from the deck and begin posting the various camera angles of the model on the water.
Brass rod. Depends on the size of the outlet hole through the gears. Depends on the gears too. I don't know what type your using. If I knew for sure I can advise. If it's the traaxxis mounts than that will require a larger dia hole on the coupling on the end going to your geared motor shaft if it is the gears that I use in Yamato. If it is a BC gear system the standard 1/8 shaft brass rod will suffice.
Perfect then just use the universal on that end. However what I found is if there is a wobble on that end you can reduce it by soldering on a brass sleeve over the shaft and bevel through the sleeve and onto the surface of the gear shaft using a dremel cut off but do this very very lightly and carefull, or you can just use a file. Take longer but less chance of cutting too deep. WIth a dremel I just lightly tap it with the cut off wheel at low speed to create a notch. This will do 2 things. First it will allw the shaft from the gear end to fit nicely in the universal coupling and 2nd you can secure it even better with the setscrew. It will eliminate the wobble at least 99% of it. I found this method works great. Flux the gear shaft and apply a little solder. Place the brass hollow sleeve at one end of the gear shaft. Slowly heat and tap the sleeve while the solder is melted gently. Keep doing this till your sleeve is on the shaft. You can make it flush or trim with dremel flus to the end of the gear shaft. Do that carefully. You don't want to reheat the sleeve and melt the solder securing it to the shaft. Once done you got your self a nice sleeve to insert into the coupling.
Had a great chat with Craig. I updated him on life, relationships, boats and Nats. If he does go he will try to get Graf Spee ready for Nats. Bis update. Secured both forward sidemounts in A and B barbettes. Next step. Installing pneumatics, hoses, and servos.
I may be able to post some tonight. I hate this picture posting system here. I find it takes too long going through the steps just to get them to your folder where you have to pull them from the folder and get them reposted again.
Strike replied back to me about my order for replacment parts for Bismarck. Getting the subdeck and main deck for Tirpitz. For Bismarck the complete upper works of the superstructure including the main turrets, and secondaries. I already have plenty of the AA and AAA guns. Torp tubes for Tirpitiz. Speaking to Craig on the set up he was surprised I was setting up A adn B dual sidemounts leaving Dora as a single stern and Caeser as a single stern haymaker.
Both C and D cannons are at the edge of the 30 degree arc 15 each side. D was easy to do setting up C was not.
Hey why is my posts count reset back to 2500 again? I hit over 3000 again. That's about 5500 missing.
Who knows. But back to the beast. How much longer before the bis will be ready?. I will start prepping Balsa so that I can resheet the PE. The lakes are almost ice free. If the water wasnt so cold i could have the boat out for a run. No snow on the ground. No ice in at Graham's grove close to the shore.
I don't know how much longer. My free time is extremely limited. I am using the 10 minute rule. Try to work on it at least 10 minutes before I leave the house. Working on it tomorrow morning and hopefully a few hours tomorrow afternoon.
Sounds like someone is getting some bling here. I have been running the two front sidemounts and so far I have four confirmed sinks in two days of battle, One was against the rest of the pond (3 american ships) I couldn't sink my Arizona (although I blew the hell out of the casemates) but I took a KGV and an Iowa..... I had trouble with C and D also when I started so I laid out C as a sniper turret (about 10-12 feet out) and plumbed D as a single/dual with killer down angle. Very close to the water line.
