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    Much sanding today, and then fairing compound on one side. I think there's a light at the end of this tunnel.
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    It's been two days of fairing compound, waiting, and sanding... The important stuff is really smooth. The fore and aft edges of the rudder, above the waterline, not so much, but that doesn't really matter.

    Tuesday night I go to my friend Len's house and we grind, shine and weld the gudgeons.
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    Welding night at Len's place. He has a new toy, I should have taken a picture of it. It's a 3-D 6 cutting head CNC metal shaper, complete with containment hood. woooo. For the price of a new tank of argon gas and two boxes of stainless welding rod, we did this....

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    1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
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    All cleaned up...custom boat jewelry!

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    1968 Selmer Series 9 B-flat and A clarinets
    1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
    Piper One Design 24, Hull #35; "Alpha"

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    What amazed me was that the contraction of the side bracing pieces after welding, actually slightly bent the thick transverse piece that everything is welded to. That chunk is 3/8'ths stainless and it's only about 3 inches wide. It's pretty bluidy rigid.
    1968 Selmer Series 9 B-flat and A clarinets
    1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
    Piper One Design 24, Hull #35; "Alpha"

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    Welding and wine, why not? What I wouldn't give to have my own garage.
    That's beautiful work. I tried to get the hang of TIG welding stainless when I was at TechShop. Fail. The upside is I can now spend inordinate amounts of time wandering the docks and admiring good welds that I used to take for granted.
    If your e-rud fails, I'm pretty sure it won't be Len's fault!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lanikai View Post
    Welding and wine, why not? What I wouldn't give to have my own garage.
    That's beautiful work. I tried to get the hang of TIG welding stainless when I was at TechShop. Fail. The upside is I can now spend inordinate amounts of time wandering the docks and admiring good welds that I used to take for granted.
    If your e-rud fails, I'm pretty sure it won't be Len's fault!
    Those are actually the primary rudder gudgeons. I'm taking a page from a couple of other folks e-rudders when it comes to putting the gudgeons on my cassette. They will be plywood and carbon with a s.s. inset for the pin bushing. That will be another thread.

    Around the corner from Lens welding area, which is separate from the machine shop area, which is separate from the extra-metal-storage/grinding wheel/CNC/electric guitars area... is an ENORMOUS refrigerated wine storage locker. It's HUGE, like 200+ bottles. There are cases of bottles on the floor. Lens wife, Kathy used to co-own a restaurant and they have friends who get them to go in on cases of upscale wine. Kathy told me that one of their New Years Resolutions is to "drink more". sheesh.
    1968 Selmer Series 9 B-flat and A clarinets
    1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
    Piper One Design 24, Hull #35; "Alpha"

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlanH View Post
    Those are actually the primary rudder gudgeons.
    Ah, yes, duh. After seeing some of the more recent posts I did think "gee, that's a lot of work for an awfully stout e-rudder" without giving it further thought (like reading the thread's title).

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    Two coats of one-part polyurethane went on above the waterline this weekend. I'll probably do one more. Still up...final sanding below the waterline, esp. the trailing edge.

    I discovered that the tiller I made is about a foot shorter than I need it to be. OK, I now have a dandy emergency tiller. It took maybe 30 minutes to shape, no big deal.
    1968 Selmer Series 9 B-flat and A clarinets
    1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
    Piper One Design 24, Hull #35; "Alpha"

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    Bottom paint went on, today. I got a quart of West Marine's ablative paint in black. I'm stunned. The rudder is nowhere near as smooth as I thought it was. I sanded that thing and sanded it and sanded it. I filled the weave twice, and sanded. Damn.
    1968 Selmer Series 9 B-flat and A clarinets
    1962 Buesher "Aristocrat" tenor saxophone
    Piper One Design 24, Hull #35; "Alpha"

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