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Troutman
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02/17/2011 09:11AM   (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
After a couple of days looking at the plans I downloaded from NorthWest, I think I have them figured out, except. Do I take a copy of the file to a printer and just say, "print it out for me"? I am not sure what the final size of the paper the plans fit on should be. I printed them out in the new Adobe that alledgedly prints full size, on a whole bunch of pieces of paper with cut lines, and am not confident that it is correct. (The plans are for the Merlin)
 
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buffalodick
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02/17/2011 09:27AM  
Troutman,

I would be very careful about using them without checking to make sure they are correctly scaled. I use CAD on a daily basis and and have printed large layouts to scale on 8-1/2" x 11" sheets and when I have taped them together I invariably have small discrepancies here and there. You would hate to find out later that your forms are not what you thought. When I built mine I purchased a full size set that was known to be accurate.
This is just a cautionary thought and something to consider. Make sure you check the printed result against the lofting figures if you have them.

Dick
 
RAFA Ranger
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02/17/2011 09:34AM  
The plans should be 24" x 36"
You'll need one sheet for each station and the two ends. Call ahead, you should be able to bring in a disk, flash drive or email. Prices seem to vary widely. I printed mine at work but the prices others quoted on other threads seemed pretty high to me. A ballpark price may be $1 per sf, so 6 sf per sheet times 15 sheets, say $100.
 
Troutman
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02/17/2011 12:25PM  
Dick, yeah, I had no plans whatsoever to cut and piece together the plans I printed. I can see that setting up the forms properly and accurately is probably the most important step in this building process. I might cut and paste the plans to put on the wall to observe, but not to build with. I guess what I really needed was the finished size, which Ranger gave me, thanks.
 
Red Beard
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02/17/2011 03:51PM  
The plans from Northwest have all the stations on one full sized sheet. Take your disk to a Kinkos or similar store. It cost me around five dollars to print out one copy full size. You will then need to trace off your stations from this one sheet.

Call around to find carbon paper of graphite transfer paper. Either one will do, the transfer paper just doesn't smudge as easily. You can use the same sheet multiple times. I believe I just used 8.5 x 11 and used small pieces of tape to hold them in place. If I remember right I used two packs of carbon paper. So maybe ten to fifteen dollars for that. Not all that expensive.
 
HighPlainsDrifter
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02/17/2011 08:23PM  

The plans for the NW Merlin are on 2 sheets of paper. One for the bow stations and one for the stern stations.

Open the PDF file. You will see 2 pages.

Click on "File" and then "Document Properties" You will see that the page size is 36" X 24" and that is FULL SCALE.

Copy the PDF to a flash drive and go down to your local print store (if you have something like Kinkos or an Allegra shop). Most print shops will have a printer capable of printing "blue print size documents". Tell them the page size and tell them to print both pages.

That is it. I was going to print out a bunch and then paste them to my plywood as a cutting pattern (until I found the cost of that). It was cheaper and just as good to use carbon paper.
 
Cedarboy
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02/18/2011 06:58AM  
DITTO HPD, forget the transfer carbon paper. KINKOS has printed my plans from NWC no roblem.
Just make a couple copies and start cutting forms, cutting the largest forms first,using the copy as the templet. When you are done you have a bunch of paper shreds.
CB
 
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