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01-16-2012, 02:33 PM | #16 | |
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Good luck and have fun with your project. Louis Rosales Last edited by Mahtzo; 01-16-2012 at 10:27 PM. |
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01-16-2012, 10:35 PM | #17 |
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Wow - I wish I had the skills to even think about taking on a project like this. Best of luck with it.
That old Very pistol looks extremely cool. Does it fire standard flares or the older 1" ones? |
01-16-2012, 11:16 PM | #18 |
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World War II 28 mm Flares. I don't actually have any of the flares anymore. It is a Breach loader, like an old Double Barrel shotgun. Not particularly valuable, but I made the cool Redwood Burl and Mahogany plaque to hold it. Gun is All Bronze and Stainless, except for the barrel.
I also made the plaque for the Bronze Shipstrike clock out of Birdseye Maple. I am very proud of the fact that the clock had stopped working a few years ago, about the last time i had sex with a human. And I took it apart, to some degree, and got it working, instead of sending it to Chelsea Clock for a second time, to the tune of several hundred dollars to blow on the jeweled mainspring. The Clock requires unscrewing the bezel, and winding both the shipstrike, and clock mechanism, every week. Keeps you humble. Both of these items were keepsakes from my Original Sushi Suzi, the 34 ft Tollycraft, that I built from a Bare Hull. |
01-17-2012, 09:21 AM | #19 |
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Those are a nice couple of pieces. Good work on the clock restoration.
It looks as though the pistol is 37mm bore. Surprisingly, I came across a site online where you can buy rather expensive 37mm flares, adapters that will allow you to fire common 12 gauge flares, and even casings for making your own flares . However, it probably makes more sense to keep that one as a cool display item and use a modern $40 plastic flare gun to satisfy the CG requirement. http://www.hi-vel.com/Catalog__25/26..._products.html |
01-17-2012, 03:44 PM | #20 | |
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I think I took 4AWG up to my bridge for my positive and neg bus. If you have that up there or larger you may be able to run off your bridge to the bow instead of from your battery bank if it is far back. The large wire to the bridge is recommended so you I don't get any voltage flutter in the electrontics. If you don't have 4 or larger wire up to your bridge you may want to consider doing it as part of wiring the windlass if you plan to install a radar, big head unit or larger depthfinder which generally gets power off the bridge. Just a thought, if you are putting down $ to run wire that way you might as well get the most for your $. DH |
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01-17-2012, 04:07 PM | #21 |
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Also, in my experience, WM is very good about price matching anything that's available online as long as it's the same item. Just take in a printout of the website. With a bulk item like wire you stand to save a bundle by not having to pay freight.
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01-17-2012, 05:57 PM | #22 |
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worth a try but I have been refused at my local WM before for online merchants that don't have a brick and mortar outpost. May depend on which employee you ask. I shop at WM when I need something fast and/or they are within 10-20% of online dealers but for marine wire and other building materials in general their prices are so far past reasonable that try to avoid them out of cheapness and principle. That internet seller gives free shipping and no sales tax. I personally don’t mind giving the state tax but some here might prefer to avoid it.
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01-22-2012, 10:11 PM | #23 |
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she looks like she came from ladds marina? yes? I bet I'm damn damn close.
she should be quite the craft when done............... --Sherpa
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