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Topic: 1/16th Elco 80ft PT103 class build |
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TED WALTHER |
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 Posted on: Jul 5, 2015 - 1:16pm
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Daniele;
That is some really nice work!!! I really like the toilet salt water intake grill it looks perfect! Most never really appreciate this system until is broken on the boat. While in My Navy career we were talking our 65' MK lll PB's on a trip to the Dominican Republic in Spring 1991. I discovered another handy use for this system I discovered while we were moored at Crooked Island in the Bahamas and later Turk Island in the Turks and Cacaos. On this trip I also served as Rescue Swimmer and spent most of the time at these two locations in the water. I discovered that Barracuda love the underwater discharge outlet, at both locations we had them glued to it, I guess the just enjoyed "recycled" MRE's as their "free" meal of the day.
Take care,
TED
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Stuart Hurley
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Posted on: Jul 6, 2015 - 2:13am
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Daniele,
Loving the pots on the stove and the dirty dishes.
Glad you got the decals O.K
Best Regards,
Stu.
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Drew Cook
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Posted on: Jul 6, 2015 - 3:28pm
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Daniele,
Beautiful work!
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Jeff D |
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Posted on: Jul 7, 2015 - 4:15am
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Very impressive Daniele, those hull fittings look spot on.
I got a kick out of this line:
I found with astonishment out that 446 3/4 and 464 3/4 are actually different measurements; in spite of containing exactly the same figures.
As we said in the glass business, It's done nice cuz it's done twice!.
That's gross Ted. Thank you for sharing. I'll never eat a barracuda again.
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Frank Andruss
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Posted on: Jul 7, 2015 - 9:04am
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Wonderful work thus far.
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Daniele Klay
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Posted on: Jul 7, 2015 - 11:07am
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Guys ,thanks a lot for all your appreciation words, but it's time for some credits on my part: I started this project 19 months ago after stumbling acrossJeff's site while researching air cooled BMGs for an armour project I had going at the time.I had been playing with the idea of building a large scale MTB for a long time- I was more orientated towards german S-Boote- but always refrained due to lack of solid reference material.
The discovery of www.pt103.com changed that in a glimpse and the decision was soon taken to start this build.
Jeff is also providing additional support with his 3D printed parts which will turn out very useful:and of course with his near to infinite PT knowledge.
Patrick Matthews also kindly scaled up his M4 37mm gun on request, with the 20MM Oerlikons following soon after (both avaliable from shapeways).
Stu Hurley was also very kind and willing to share research material, so I look at this project as a joint effort and hope it will turn out good.
More updates to follow, keep an eye on it.
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