After years of researching and exploring ideas, I finally make a start on the ballast keel - a start which means those sleepless hours are finally over as I have now decided the technique I'm going to use to build the thing!

Elsewhere, I experiment with machining pieces out of rubber blocks and Karin completes the saloon cushions :-)

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Tony

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hi i'm tony this is s vita patcher we're
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building a cruising servo it's a a j
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benford designed sailing dory 32 foot
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long basically speaking
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and uh
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this is the record of the build of that
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boat
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however we're here in the workshop not a
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boat inside
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but i've spent a lot of time this week
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in the workshop and as you may see it's
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kind of
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morphed from what is basically a
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woodwork shop into a metal workshop this
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week and we're working on this
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which is very very exciting it's the
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start of the ballast kill
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and
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what you may see may
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give a bit the game away what i'm
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planning
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i'm welding up this steel box it's five
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millimeter thick steel plate
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um and it's the size of the ballast kill
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and will indeed be the ballast kill and
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the plan is to fill this where there'd
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be some intermediary plates in here to
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stop it spreading but to fill it with
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the lead ballast
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fuel bolts coming out protruding out of
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it obviously the plates that stop the
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spread will also act as fixings or yeah
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act as fixings for the kill bolts
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and then we'll be filling it with lead
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and this allows me to melt the lead in
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batches which is something that i'm
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particularly more comfortable with you
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know i've watched
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acorn to arabella and you know respect
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their achievement there i've watched
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doug
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on seeker i've watched leo and his issue
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that he had with melting lead i've
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watched various other youtube channels
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of people casting led to lead kills
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and for me
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particularly considering that here we're
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here we're in a residential area it's
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not an industrial site here
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for me melting the lead in batches is
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just much more comfortable it's much
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more handleable it's something i can do
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safely
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without concerns
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and that's the reasons for this decision
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so be filled up with lead it will give
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us the 1.3 tonnes of ballast that we
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need i say with the bolts protruding out
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to fix it on through the floors of the
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boat
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the steel box itself will remain and
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will be treated like as though or a
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steel boat put a couple of zinc anodes
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on the outside
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she'll be epoxy sealed completely on the
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outside and treated as exactly as though
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it were a steel boat
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it should give it a good
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life span
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and there we go so let's have a look
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six
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get accurate
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oh
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that is amazing
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hello
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i've just burnt out my trusty
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metabo angle grinder and this is all
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they had in the shop
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craft tronic
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because your confidence but
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it wasn't very expensive
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so look what we've got here
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like that
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comes over there like that and into
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there like that
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see that all that stuff in here
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so
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perfect
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so
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uh
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so
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so
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oh
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so
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that's really quite yeah
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uh so
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what's up
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so
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i've done that
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so i'm welding with this with this i've
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shown you it before with this little ipo
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tools inverter welder stick rolling
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and uh it's brilliant it gives you a
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really good quality world it's easy it's
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got they've got their what they call it
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soft style or something it's cool
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doesn't it
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so it's really really easy to use and a
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great little world i thoroughly
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recommend
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and coming on well i think
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i bought some of these rubber blocks a
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good
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large solid rubber block because i had a
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couple of little bits around the the
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washboard the sliding hatch of the
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washboard a couple of little gaps that i
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wanted to block up and i just had this
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idea that a piece of rubber fitted in
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there solid rubber you know not a
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flexible rubber
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solid rubber fitted in there would be
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good i thought i'd try it as an
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experiment
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well they come they've got this pattern
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on the front
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and i wanted to just experiment really
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with the machine in it and i just
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plained that off with that with the
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bosch rechargeable you know
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cordless planer and it played off
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beautifully
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absolutely beautifully and then cut this
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to size on the table saw and uh marked
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it out
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and cut it then to final shape with the
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japanese handsaw and it works really
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well really easily works like wood
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actually i sanded it with the sander to
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get the finish drilled and count the
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sunkits to fix it
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and they've come out really well
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good
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uh
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wow
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down below obviously on the chilly
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morning
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and karen's been busy she's hand sewed
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all the ends of her cushions the saloon
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cushions the five
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saloon cushions she sat there
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sewed them come out absolutely
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beautifully tightened the cloth up that
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little bit extra onto the onto the foam
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i love the quality this foam is good
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dense phone phone
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and that's brightening the place up i
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love the love the color you know it's
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blue it's
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obviously
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perhaps not the most adventurous color
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in the world but but i think it works
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really nicely with the wood
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and white paneling and i'm happy
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we'll get on to we're going to do the
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quarterback next and then move on to the
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v birth lastly
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i won't film very much
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things go wrong
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and that's it for this week
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we'll see you next time bye
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so
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ah
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you
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okay
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