Tony attacks an old gas bottle, cutting the top clean off! The keel bolts turn to steel, we take the keel box for a walk and weigh it, and the keel timber is lowered onto the keel box!

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Tony

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hi i'm tony this is esv
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we're building this
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cruising sailboat that you see behind me
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and as you might tell spring is
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springing
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it's getting quite pleasant
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still frosty in the mornings but um
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getting up to above 10 degrees celsius
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midday the last couple of days at least
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and of course soon the clocks will be
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changing and we'll be able to get a bit
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of light in the evening as well which
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will be a
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massive help
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and yeah as you probably know working on
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the keel structure as you may well know
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last week we had a bit of a setback
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um but
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that's all sorted now
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um had to replace the the bronze bolts
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that i was planning with some steel
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bolts
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and obviously the first job this week
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was to do exactly that
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so
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um
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so
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so
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as you can see they're not
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wow
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well thoughts are turning towards uh
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melting the lead and i needed to make
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some kind of device
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to melt it in
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um something that hopefully you know i
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can melt the lead in and it'll it'll
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allow me to pour the lead from that into
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the into the kill box
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now i mentioned a few weeks ago i think
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that i had an old uh gas bottle kicking
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the bells one that i i couldn't take
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back and get the deposit on
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and i thought i'd use that i thought
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that'd make a great little pot for for
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melting in
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so first job is to cut the top off
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um and cutting the top of
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an old gas bottle it's not something you
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do
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without a bit of thought i think
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but the ones of youtube come to play i'd
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look up there's people cutting the tops
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off of guest bottles
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showing you how to do it and
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i did basically just took some some tips
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from one of those
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videos
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first job was to take the there's a kind
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of brass valve in the top of them take
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that out and i stood it upside down with
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the valve out for about a week
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the gas is heavier than air so upside
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down it should flow out
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and then after that i filled it with
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water
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and proceeded to cut the top off
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now
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that's right
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foreign
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so
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that's good
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okay
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what
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foreign
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so
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okay
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foreign
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let's go
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okay
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95.6 kilos all right 5.8 let's get it
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off
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so here's the kill box in the boat shed
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uh
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getting ready to fill it you know this
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is
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it's getting very very close
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one thing i thought was very interesting
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would be to weigh it and see what it
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weighed
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we did exactly that as it stands i think
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it was
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85.8 kilos
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um i've got four kilos of zinc to put on
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the outside i'm also going to put some
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steel
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down the back of the box some solid
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square steel to locate it in in the wood
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that comes behind it so
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i think basically we can assume that the
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empty steel box is 100 kilos
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which is a help certainly and i won't be
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sorry if we end up being a little bit
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overweight
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uh the key design is for 1280 kilos of
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ballast kill if we end up being a little
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bit over that i won't mind
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um
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other builders talk about you know 10
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over
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we'll see
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a bit over we'll be fine
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and set up in the shed
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i'm thinking you're getting the final
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setting up for the smelting and the
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pouring and
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getting there
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yeah i haven't got that far we've got
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the 11 steel bolts in place
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uh 10 of which are a 16 millimeter
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diameter
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and the very forward one is a 14
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millimeter
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um got them in place and next job was
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was hazel and i did some measuring and
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cut them to length
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and cut the threads on the top now
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it just turned a bit a bit silly in a
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way because
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you remember that i when i was planning
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to use bronze
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um the bronze nuts that are readily
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available and them are all unc threads
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so i
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i put unc threads on the
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and the nuts that locate in the
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in the keel
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um
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so i had to cut unc threads on the
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bottom of the still
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kill bolts to fit those but it didn't
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seem
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didn't make much sense to to
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to turn down the tops to to make them
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fit the unc sizes so i put
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m16s on the top end of the of the bigger
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bolts and then 14 on the top end of the
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of the smaller one
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and yeah cut them to length cut the
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threads got them in
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foreign
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so
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so
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uh
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that way
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right here
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very good we're going to drop it all the
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way down a minute so if kerry's going to
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lift you pull that stand out i can do
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this for myself because i'm big and
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strong
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so i'll work that ready
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and no no
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i think we're high you're in the way
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elizabeth look at it
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um it's tilted so it needs to go
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slightly further
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yeah
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um
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so
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it's at the moment it's like that
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it needs to come this way a little bit
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look at that look at that
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look at that
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um
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look at
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that's not that
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thank you
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ready
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a
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oh
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well that's it for this week thanks for
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watching give us a thumbs up leave a
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comment
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lastly lots and lots of really great
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comments actually the most comments i've
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ever had and so many that i actually
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haven't managed to answer all of them so
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if you did leave a comment last week and
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you didn't get a response from me
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my apologies for that
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um it's great comments and really useful
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resources i think i hope people i know
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people do read the comments
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great resources for people who are
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building after me good stuff thank you
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i shall certainly be pleased when this
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kills done it's been a
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long haul
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a keel hall badge you could
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say see you next time bye
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