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| Gene Bodnar |
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  Registered Member #126 Joined: Tue Jul 21 2009, 11:20amPosts: 1778 | Thanks, Mike and Don, Mike, there will be quite a bit of tiny fitting work in each of the boiler rooms, including coal and oil storage, various motors and ventilators, ladders, and such. This area will contain so many details that I may have to leave the deck area above the boilers open, too, just so the details can be seen (not certain yet). No, I don't see a desalination unit. I managed to get all the German words translated to English, but there are still a couple I don't fully understand -- maybe one of those is such a unit. | ||
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| SteveM |
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  Registered Member #1764 Joined: Thu Sep 08 2011, 03:12amPosts: 206 | I don't know what the Germans would call it, but we call it a distillation unit. Not to be confused with something used to make rum. | ||
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| aew |
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aew  Registered Member #1929 Joined: Wed Nov 30 2011, 03:05pmPosts: 3010 | Gene: You definitely need to show those internal fittings! Could you make a section of deck that lifts off? I like the method you've used to make the portholes. It's a good job Vanguard doesn't have portholes or I'd be raiding my son's stock of them!  | ||
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| Winston |
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winston Registered Member #1 Joined: Sat Jun 13 2009, 02:08pmPosts: 2555 | I found a bag of eyelets of varying sizes similar to what you would find on a pair of shoes at a store somewhere. I was thinking that somewhere down the road they'd make great portholes.....if ever I built a model that used them. One of those spontaneous purchases that I couldn't pass up if you know what I mean. No real use for in the present, but great potential in the future. | ||
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| Gene Bodnar |
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| Registered Member #126 Joined: Tue Jul 21 2009, 11:20amPosts: 1778 | Winston, Yes, I collect stuff like that, too, and I don't throw anything away that might have even a remote possibility of use on a future model. Gene | ||
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| Gene Bodnar |
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| Registered Member #126 Joined: Tue Jul 21 2009, 11:20amPosts: 1778 | COAL AND OIL: In the space between the boilers and the exterior bulkheads, coal and oil was stored in large containers than ran the full length of the boiler rooms on both port and starboard and extended from the floor to the main deck. To view the inside of these storage containers I built them only slightly higher than the ship’s waterline, with a cutaway view of the inside of each container. The coal consists of crushed aquarium rocks painted satin black, and the oil is simulated with brown paint and lacquer. The containers themselves are made of 1/16” sheet basswood painted acrylic black. COAL FEED PUMPS: Each boiler room contains two coal feed pumps, one on the port side and the other on starboard. They are made from various materials, including basswood, bamboo, and card. All were painted with black satin spray paint. OIL FEED PUMPS: Only the two forward boiler rooms contain oil feed pumps. The aftmost boiler room used only coal. They were made similar to the coal feed pumps. FINISHING THE BOILER ROOMS: Except for ventilators and ladders, which will be installed later, the boiler rooms are finished. All fittings were glued in place with Elmer’s Carpenter’s Glue.      | ||
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| aew |
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| aew Registered Member #1929 Joined: Wed Nov 30 2011, 03:05pmPosts: 3010 | Gene: The coal feed pumps have got me slightly puzzled. The Wikipedia article on Yarrow boilers (very interesting) says that early ones were manually coal fired and later ones oil fired. Early mechanical feeds to coal fired boilers used chain grate stokers and later ones used pulverised fuel (PF). The Wikipedia entry for Tátra class destroyers says: Of the six Yarrow boilers, four were oil-fired and the other two capable of operating with either oil or coal. That does suggest that the coal was in the form of PF. If the coal feed pumps in your Csepel used PF I think you need to swap your aquarium gravel for soot! | ||
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| Gene Bodnar |
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| Registered Member #126 Joined: Tue Jul 21 2009, 11:20amPosts: 1778 | Arthur, I like your "swap aquarium gravel for soot" -- amusing. Yes, I saw the articles you cite. I agree with you entirely, and I discussed this extensively with my client However, he wants to "see coal" along the sides of the boilers. So I will give him coal. Gene | ||
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| aew |
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| aew Registered Member #1929 Joined: Wed Nov 30 2011, 03:05pmPosts: 3010 | Gene: You'll just have to install a pulveriser! Those destroyers must have been pretty advanced for their time. | ||
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| Gene Bodnar |
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| Registered Member #126 Joined: Tue Jul 21 2009, 11:20amPosts: 1778 | LOWEST BOW DECK TORPEDO ROOM: The torpedo room is the foremost room of the lower deck at the bow. I have installed 5 torpedoes mounted in a rack in this room. The torpedoes consist of ¼” dowels rounded at one end and sharpened in a pencil sharpener at the other. The wings of the torpedoes are small pieces of 1/32” basswood. The rack is made of two pieces of 1/16” basswood drilled with 5 holes. The torpedoes and the rack were painted with gray acrylic paint. MUNITIONS ROOMS: The two rooms going abaft of the torpedo room are rooms that contain munitions. Small rectangular boxes of various sizes were made to similar the munitions containers, and were stained with 3 different shades of Minwax Stain. The containers were appropriately stacked and glued together with Elmer’s Carpenter’s Glue. NAPHTHA STORAGE ROOM: Immediately abaft of the two munitions rooms is the storage area for naphtha. The room itself is divided into 3 sections, which I have separated with studs only so that all three sections can be viewed. Each of the three storage tanks are made of 1/16” sheet basswood and painted with silver acrylic paint. DECK ABOVE TORPEDO ROOM THE DECK ITSELF: First, I made a cardboard pattern of the full length of the deck. Next, I transferred the pattern onto a piece of 1/64” veneer and cut it out with an X-Acto knife. Next, I cut 1/16”-thick planks about 7/64” wide, blackening one edge with a 6B pencil. Individual planks were then glued onto the veneer. Finally, the planking was stained with Minwax Golden Oak Stain, and the unit was glued in place atop the lower deck rooms. HATCHES: There are 6 hatches in this deck, three are ½” in diameter, and three are 7/16” in diameter. Appropriate size dowels were cut to fit each of the holes drilled in the decking, leaving about 1/16” protruding above the deck. A piece of card was punched out slightly larger than each of the dowels and glued atop the dowels to provide a lid. Small pieces of basswood were cut and glued to the tops of the card to form the hatch covers. Finally, all were painted with light gray acrylic paint and glued in place. TABLES: Eight tables appear on this deck. The tabletops and legs are made of 1/32” basswood. I left them unpainted and unstained because the extremely thin wood would probably curl out of shape with the application of any kind of liquid. The tables were glued in place with a touch of Elmer’ S Carpenter’s Glue applied to bottom of each leg. BENCHES: These were constructed in the same fashion as the tables. CREWMEMBER’S INDIVIDUAL STORAGE AREAS: Along both sides of both crewmember’s rooms there are individual storage cabinets. Most are made with small solid blocks of basswood, but two were formed with all its interior walls and left open. They were constructed so that they would fit snugly against the bulkheads on each side. I gave them a coat of satin espresso paint and glued them in place with Elmer’s. FRESH WATER TANK: This item is made of a solid block of basswood, rounded at its base, and fitted into its stand. Molding strips were attached, as shown. The base is painted with acrylic cinnamon paint, and the tank is painted with acrylic white. The unit is glued in place with Elmer’s. TORPEDO SUPPLIES CABINET: This, too, is constructed of a solid piece of basswood. The cabinet doors are made of 1/32” basswood, and so are the tiny door handles. The unit is painted with acrylic light gray and glued in place with Elmer’s. HAMMOCK STORAGE UNIT: The entire unit is made of 1/16” basswood, which is painted satin espresso color and glued in place with Elmer’s.    | ||
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