Casting the bulb

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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby Chad » Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:51 am

Click his name in one of his earlier posts, and use the send message function...

...or wait for him to see your post and reply ;-)
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby Marino » Sat Jan 26, 2013 8:23 pm

Chad, Kiwi22 called me and we will be helping each other.
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby Marino » Fri Apr 05, 2013 2:35 am

The beaver tail bulb mould has been given a plane ticket and is taking an international flight over seas. So if anyone wants it next, you'll have to contact Stealth.
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby Chad » Fri Apr 05, 2013 3:00 am

That's awesome! Stoked its being used, and getting some miles.
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby noemar » Wed Apr 10, 2013 3:37 pm

I THINK WE ALL OWE A BIG THANK YOU TO CHAD FOR DESIGNING AND CONSTRUCTING THE BULB MOLD FOR ALL TO USE.
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby admin » Wed Apr 10, 2013 3:45 pm

I would be in agreement with that. Major props to Chad. And mine doesn't even have a beaver.
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby Chad » Wed Apr 10, 2013 4:53 pm

Awe shucks :oops:
...you can "thank" me by getting busy with those builds, and getting out on the water soon!!!!!



(no beave on my bulb either, Tim. I do have a mold for it though, in case mine should require replacement, for whatever reason...)
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby Marino » Wed Apr 10, 2013 6:25 pm

I raise my glass of kool-aid :D :D :D to chad for what he has given to us.
To the ones building, don't forget to place pictures on the forum.
What am i saying. I better get cracking on my i550, now that the weather is improving.
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby ryderp » Wed Apr 10, 2013 11:42 pm

Thanks are definitely in order. Here is a picture of my beaver tail on installation day (of the keel foil in the boat):

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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby jray » Thu Apr 11, 2013 5:05 am

Very nice job!! Splash time close??
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby Chad » Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:37 pm

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Do we have rules against this? I think every i550 needs 7 foils!
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby Kevin » Thu Aug 15, 2013 4:37 pm

Well, for starters, the rudder has to be transom mounted doesn't it?
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby Chad » Thu Aug 15, 2013 5:24 pm

Rats! Back to the drawing board!

(pic above is Wild Oats XI, with its S-H mods. Imagine sailing that thing someplace with kelp...)
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby chuckand » Tue Oct 22, 2013 1:34 pm

Chad,

I just received i550 plans (Hull #525) and am exploring things I can get rolling with before filling my shop with plywood. I've got access to 3-axis machinery and would like to start playing with the Rudder/keel/bulb. Do you have a model that you would share for the bulb that's being passed around? I'd like to carve a plug.

Thanks!

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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby Chad » Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:58 pm

Hi Chuck,
I have a kludgy 3d model of the bulb, but my software isn't geared toward boat stuff and doesn't produce the sweetest shapes once I go outside of its comfort zone. I do have all the profiles in cad form, if your software can do a better job assembling them into a solid...
-if interested pm me with your contact info and I'll be happy to send you what I have.
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby chuckand » Tue Oct 22, 2013 8:36 pm

Thanks Chad! That outta get me going!

I'll post what I do with it....

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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby lohwaikin » Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:16 am

Hi Guys,
I am now moving on to machining the bulb for mating with the keel foil.
Is there written anywhere on this forum the position of the foil on the bulb?
Or can I still follow the dimensions for bolt-holes as per default plan?

Basically my bulb casting went rather awry.
I was at work went the battery recycler poured the bulb.
They told me the mould (made of Portland cement) started cracking midway thru' the pour.
And the result is a rather extra-terrestrial-looking piece of antimony-lead (straight from the battery plates).

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I spent quite some nights chipping away at the embedded cement, and surforming the rough faces.

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It's kind of looking like a bulb now, but I need to mate it up with the foil first, before commencing on some heavy puttying.
To my horror the main sprue on the starboard side turned out to be so "aggregated" with cement that it dropped off during chiselling and revealed a crater!
I do hope the boat will not list to port because of this...

Cheers,
Loh.
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby micah202 » Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:58 am

...looking good Loh!...I think that's as good as the pour's get,,nobody's hit -perfect- yet,as far as I know.

..the weight's good?

...in the past I've done keel-fairing with a power planer---all fun until someone gets hit with one of the many bullets shooting across the shop! :?
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby jray » Fri Feb 07, 2014 11:54 am

lohwaikin wrote:Hi Guys,
I am now moving on to machining the bulb for mating with the keel foil.
Is there written anywhere on this forum the position of the foil on the bulb?
Or can I still follow the dimensions for bolt-holes as per default plan?



What I did is place the thickest part of the foil at the center balance point of the bulb which should be around 387mm back from the nose. It has been working fine for me. There may be other ideas on this.
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby ryderp » Fri Feb 07, 2014 1:59 pm

Loh,

The bulb looks good. I had some gaps in my bulb. I melted a bit of lead and just poured it into the largest one. The smaller ones were filled with fairing compound.

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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby Tim Ford » Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:25 pm

Really glad you asked this Loh, as my pour-date is rapidly approaching. Now I know where to place my foils plugs....thanks for that number Jray!
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby lohwaikin » Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:59 am

The bulb weighs 80kg (176 lb), or at least that's what I've been charged on the receipt...

I've been figuring out how to machine a foil profile about 1/2" deep onto the top of the bulb, so that I can step on my keel foil to minimize the likelihood of timber splitting off while the boat is heeling off on a reach... :o

Without lugging the bulb off to some machine shop with vertical 3-axis milling, I built up a horizontal board over the bulb transport cradle, drew the section profile of the keel foil over the top of the "visually righted" bulb, and with a depth-plunge router (that Maktec MT360 with a mind of its own!), produced the foil step on 3 go. Expect some toasty lead chips with the router at >15,000 RPM...

Just to share with you guys some of the crazy things I do for this boat project...

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The next challenge will be to produce 2 vertical bolt holes thru' the height of the bulb.
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby Chad » Mon Feb 17, 2014 2:01 pm

Looks great!
I used a similar process here:
http://i550knotracing.blogspot.com/2010 ... stuff.html

I used a little table-top drill press for the holes, but a long drill bit held by hand won't be too difficult. Lead is pretty soft and easy to drill. Without a drill press, it might be easier to use your router to create the countersink for the nut on the bottom, after drilling the through hole.
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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby micah202 » Tue Feb 18, 2014 2:41 am

lohwaikin wrote:The bulb weighs 80kg (176 lb), or at least that's what I've been charged on the receipt...


...ummm,isn't the whole keel meant to be 150 to 185lbs?..or did you intend a heavier keel?? :?



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Re: Casting the bulb

Postby Chad » Tue Feb 18, 2014 3:27 am

My keel strut came in around 10#, so he's right on track. He'll lose a couple pounds with the routing and drilling. If OD is ever an issue, it's lots easier to make a heavy keel lighter than to make a light one heavier...
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