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USS Crockett, Finishing the USS Crockett
devans
post Aug 2 2008, 02:21 PM
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Gees am I a slacker or what! I have been sooo busy actually working on the Crockett I hate to stop and post my progress, kind of striking while the iron is hot if you know what I mean. The past week or so I have been seriously motivated and I'm making some major progress. Later this coming week I will update the thread and post pictures to my album for you to either oohh and ahhh or laugh at. I'll leave that up to you.
Till then.
Take care.
Don
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post Aug 9 2008, 08:52 PM
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I have sixteen new pictures to add to my album but first I will have to resize all of them so they will load. I'm not sure I like the way they load because the newest pictures ends up in the front and is the reverse of the build. A word of advice, don't go too long between updates because it takes a while to do when you have so much to add. I'll do this in small chunks so it may be easier for the reader to back away and come back later and not have to figure out where they left off. Now for the update. Some of this for you old timers is going to be mundane, I'm writing a lot of details mostly for the beginners that may read this. Sorry.
March has obviously come and gone and I've had to adjust my schedule to be ready for a fun run my group is having on Sept.6th. It's primarily submarines but targets are welcome if we behave ourselves biggrin.gif. When I last left off the super structure was in primer and most of the small detail parts were done. The next thing on my list was to start putting the deck railings in place and squared away, this was a straight forward job and went very nicely. I did however use new .032 brass wire for the rails but the stantions were just cleaned up and reused. One trick I did with the stantions before soldering them was to drill a dimple in the corner pieces so I had a way of attaching the rails at the corners. After I was satisfied with the way the rails came out I then soldered them on the ends to lock it all together. I also used the same trick for where the ladder grab rails meet the stantions for the ladder ways. This just makes it easier to hold the piece in place while you solder it, the other end of the ladder grab rail simply went into a hole drill into the super structure and was ca'd. Once all the rails were done I could then located and glue on the diesel exhaust stacks, again pretty straight forward stuff. with this done I then finished the last parts of the rails from the aft stantions to the funnels. Then all the lockers back aft were installed after they were painted with the base coat. Happy with this the next thing to do was to get the base coat done on the rest of the super structure and let that dry. I probably should have done this differently but.. I then noticed I had forgotten to paint the flat black portions of all the funnels and on the mist eliminator before I put them on. ohmy.gif So in stead of taking it apart and back tracking I simply masked everything off then painted the flat black. It's not that hard if you take you time. Due to the tight radius and angles of the stacks simply taping the black area off with just masking tape would not work because it would wrinkle here and there and let the paint get where you don't want it. A good trick is to take some electrical tape and put it down on a smooth surface and cut it in about 1/8th inch strips. Be careful and keep it straight though. Then run the strip all the way around the edge of the black area, what do you know, no wrinkles. Then you just put short strips of painters tape from the electrical tape on down covering all the grey. The same method was used at the same time to do the mist eliminator. For the larger areas forward of the funnels I used newspaper taped down. Paint the flat black and let it dry a little then carefully pull the tape.
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post Aug 9 2008, 10:01 PM
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Now with the flat black done I went to work in the mist eliminator details, this is just the cross hatch work that represents the stiffeners on the filter area.
The next thing on my list was to make the antennas that are mounted on the diesel exhaust stacks. I looked at how the Dumas plans wanted it done and promptly ignored them, I did however use the length specified. I took two 3/32" diameter pieces of brass rod and cut them to length. Now the antennas are tapered toward the top which meant that I would have to some how do this for the brass rod but how? Simple, break out the poor mans metal lathe or commonly known as the drill press. rolleyes.gif Please don't attempt this if you have limited experience running a drill press, it's very easy to get hurt and if you do then I warned you and will not be held responsible. You'll want to set it for a very slow speed and put the brass rod in the chuck nice and tight. Then put a leather glove on the hand you will use to steady the rod while it spins and using a file you simply shave the rod down to a taper. This took almost an hour per piece. before you remove each piece from the drill press you will want to take some fine emery and sand it smooth but do the entire piece because you will want the paint to stick later and this will give the rod some tooth. while I was at the drill press I also needed to make the transition pieces that are at the base of each antenna. This was done with 3/8" diameter wooden dowel and a piece of 80 grit emery to hog off the wood fast and to a decent angle, then finished with a fine emery to smooth out the wood and prep it to paint.
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I need to sign off now because I'm at work and there is a planned power outage about to happen. I will come back a little later and edit this out and continue on.
Don
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post Sep 1 2008, 11:02 PM
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WoW, lots of work. Got any pictures?


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post Sep 2 2008, 05:49 PM
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I was just coming back to give a status report rolleyes.gif , I remembered the last thing I left off with was a planned power outage. Made it through that O.K. I've been taking pictures as I go along so I have plenty to add to my album. First I have to resize them. I still have lots to do and basically three days in which to get it done. Her maiden voyage will be this Saturday and I plan on getting pictures of that as well. Some time very soon after Saturday I will get to working on the resizing of the pictures and finishing the thread.
Till then stay tuned campers.
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post Sep 13 2008, 08:48 PM
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Well I've resized the pictures I want to add to my album but for some reason the board wont let me upload. I was hoping to be able to do a step by step with pictures to finish but hey that's life in the fast lane.
From where I left off: I painted the antennas and when they were dry I installed them on the smaller funnels. The next thing was to figure out the Pelorus, I've never seen one but with the help of some pictures Roger turned me on to I was able to make them on my wood lathe. Now most of you, myself included, would normally make a master, mold it and make the required number of parts. In this case two, but remember I'm on a time crunch and I can make both pieces from wood faster than the mold and cast method so I did. I mounted them to some brass rod then applied paint. Once dry these were installed.
Now I need to finish the mast, when I last left off on that it was just a basic shape. I took some flat brass stock and cut out the light foundations. Before I started putting them on the mast I measured the lights I intended to use and using a hole punch put the holes in for the lights. Now for the fun part, soldering the pieces together. It took a few attempts and I had to walk away a couple of times but it all finally came together. I did some clean up and sanding of the brass and painted the mast. Once it was dry I started installing the lights. At this point I noticed a modification I will do later to the bottom of the mast where it mounts to the deck. The brass tube I used will have to be taken out and a larger diameter put in. The wires are too tight where they exit the bottom of the mast. Live and learn. I soldered the ships bell to the mast and installed the radar assembly minus the drive motor for now. Like I said I just need it to run at the moment.
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post Sep 14 2008, 12:26 AM
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The next set of details to go on were the fire fighting equipment. My friend I got the model from had bought some pretty nice valves and some fittings so I figured out a way to put these to use. It is a departure from the "T" setup mentioned on the plans but it looks pretty good. My friend had also made up some foam nozzles that are all the same, I used all four of them for the time being but I do intent to go back later and change two of them out to what the plan says. I next made the mounts for the life rings, mounted the rings then applied paint. Once dry they were installed.
Another item that will be changed out later is the motor boat. It's supposed to be a 13 foot Boston Whaler carved from wood. again time is short so I used a boat that was pretty close to the right scale, it doesn't look too bad but I do want to take a crack at the Whaler. The boat davit needed a better hook than what was put on it so it was replaced. I wanted to have an anchor point for the davit hook that was at least some what realistic, My friend had put two eyelets on the deck so I took some very fine twisted wire and swedges and made a rigging sling between the eyes. I looped the hook on the wire and restrung it on the davit. This pretty much completed a vast majority of the detail work, only a very small amount left to do and now it's the Thursday before the Fun Run. I've had all my batteries on the charger and my radio that I plan on using as well so I start working on setting up the receiver and servos and such when I notice that my brand new radio isn't talking to the receiver. I try a few more times to pair the tx and rx but nothing. I decided to call a buddy of mine so that we can put our heads together and make sure I performed the setup correctly which as it happens I did so we made plans for me to go to his house Friday night after he got home from work. I get there and we played around with my radio for a little while and determine that something is wrong with it and it needs to go back to get fixed. Thank god for warranties. He had an extra radio just like mine so we set his up and he let me use it on Saturday. Everything worked very well, we even managed to get the aft gun servos hooked up so it could be moved back and forth. Neat! Saturday finally gets here and off I go to the Fun Run. Now the fun run is primarily a submarine function but surface boats are welcome too. At some point I notice the lake is pretty empty so I get my friend and walk down to the lake. I hand him the radio, he got the maiden voyage as part of the deal for giving me the boat. Off went the Crockett on the lake looking very nice and behaving as it should. We did figure out that the motor setup my buddy installed was not enough for this boat, one motor feeding a gearbox setup to both shafts. It was to say the least a bit sluggish. The gear box will be removed and another Dumas 6 volt motor installed. That should give her the right amount of oomph. I was a little surprised and quite please that the Crockett was very well received at the fun run by my fellow modeling enthusiasts. This made me quite happy!
For now I will stop the thread here, I will try to get the pictures to my album and as I get the mods done I mentioned I will try to update the thread with the results. Thanks for putting up with this drawn out build thread.
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