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  • 08 Nov 2011 01:19
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    Reply # 744668 on 744084
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    Alan "Maddog!" MacBride wrote:
    Gary Pick wrote:After a couple of days of using whatever tool I could find that would bore, cut, chisel and generally remove wood from difficult places I now have the prop shaft correctly aligned. I still have to rebuild the skeg but that will be comparatively easy.

    Good to hear the problem's solved. Reminds me of preparations for propellerness on Alba'. I cut a rather large swath out of the transom to accommodate the future prop, even going so far as to make a mockup prop... only to realize once the engine arrived and was installed that the cutout was a foot+ too high up and completely unnecessary. Had to fill the whole/hole business back in.

    Don't you just hate that?:)
  • 07 Nov 2011 11:49
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    Gary Pick wrote:After a couple of days of using whatever tool I could find that would bore, cut, chisel and generally remove wood from difficult places I now have the prop shaft correctly aligned. I still have to rebuild the skeg but that will be comparatively easy.

    Good to hear the problem's solved. Reminds me of preparations for propellerness on Alba'. I cut a rather large swath out of the transom to accommodate the future prop, even going so far as to make a mockup prop... only to realize once the engine arrived and was installed that the cutout was a foot+ too high up and completely unnecessary. Had to fill the whole/hole business back in.
  • 07 Nov 2011 10:29
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    Reply # 744047 on 644008
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    After a couple of days of using whatever tool I could find that would bore, cut, chisel and generally remove wood from difficult places I now have the prop shaft correctly aligned. I still have to rebuild the skeg but that will be comparatively easy.
  • 04 Nov 2011 11:30
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    Well, I'd like to report that I had done a fine job of fastening the stern tube in place. A days effort and I almost have it free. That Botecote is good stuff!
    I should be working on the realigning tomorrow.
  • 04 Nov 2011 07:22
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    Gary Pick wrote:Oh tears of woe and hand wringing! My alignment error is greater than I thought. I'm going to have to do corrective surgery. i should have waited before I rebuilt the skeg...but that's impatience for you.

    We've all (us who have and are building boats) been there Gary, so we feel your pain but you make good and carry on. L. Francis Herrishoff used to say that if you are not making mistakes you are not doing anything. However he also said "If you make to many mistakes, you loose your job". Fortunately in our game the boss and the worker are the same :-)
  • 04 Nov 2011 02:33
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    Yeah, I can relate to the tears of woe. Then the thinking of a solution, and carrying it out soon makes you forget the bad moments.
    Someone said its the journey, not the destination, so just notch that one up to making the journey a little more colourful.
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  • 04 Nov 2011 01:34
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    I remember trying to help align an engine in Badger's lazarette, in a Falkland Islands' winter, approximately 100 miles from anywhere you could by anything.  We had bought one of those thickness gauge thingies and I was reliably informed that the tolerances had to be +/- this much.  Are you kidding?  Shims were cut from beer cans that were fortunately to hand.  Beer-can shim cut hand, too, come to think of it.  Lots of blood and bad language.  An additional quirk was that the engine was on quite a steep slope and heavy.  Not that stable and difficult to support (oh yes, it was off centre at one side of the boat).  We got there in the end but I remember thinking 2 things: (1) I don't want to do that again.  Ever.  (2) Now I know why they invented sail drives.

    So I feel for you in your plight, Gary and hope that having got things lined up nicely for the shaft, all the rest goes smoothly.
  • 04 Nov 2011 01:11
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    Two steps forward, one step back – that's boatbuilding. Also, a good boatbuilder can be recognised by his superior ability to cover up his mistakes.
  • 04 Nov 2011 00:26
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    Oh tears of woe and hand wringing! My alignment error is greater than I thought. I'm going to have to do corrective surgery. i should have waited before I rebuilt the skeg...but that's impatience for you.
  • 03 Nov 2011 10:18
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    I have just spent the day at a friend's place watching another friend machine my prop shaft for me. Tomorrow I will get to see just how well it fits. The world really does contain some very fine people.
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