the infamous aluminum welding began.
".... alluminiooooo in a boat? " - "But aluminum is difficult to weld, impossible."
- "But how can you weld aluminum?"
- "but how do you pay?"
Here is a summary of the first five months of feedback from relatives, friends, acquaintances and strangers.
Whenever we tell people that our extravagant project, the first question was to weld aluminum.
It 'amazing how everyone knows this great difficulty that affects men, it seems almost like an imprinting the instinct to breathe and walk.
Women, children, seniors, government employees, retirees, housewives, computer programmers, engineers, architects, accountants, carpenters, school staff, the Kings and Queens, blacksmiths and farriers ..... everyone knows it.
we approach this phase with fear as if it was a massacre.
Tranquilli, please do not worry, you can do. With a good welder to learn how to weld aluminum, it takes 15 to 20 minute session casuali.Nella photos you can see we made the first seal.
Dix, when he came to Florence to see us, we explained the progression of the welds. In about 6 hours, we have started and finished the first phase, the phase "T".
All intersections of those curves with straight plates were welded from the outside.
After the first 5 minutes of total panic (when we arrived near the corner sheet melted, creating a hole), we realized that we needed a person inside the hull with a piece of iron or copper followed the welding " buffer ". We asked our consultant to confirm this idea of \u200b\u200bCharles and discovered that we had not invented anything new, in fact this practice is widely used. We thank Charles who has joined us quickly to the site for confirm our findings and to make us a lot of compliments, by the way, are always nice, especially if done by a man who has spent 35 of his years in the shipyard to sell welders.
We did not notice not even any visible deformation of the plates.
There were only 3 "crashing", 3 appuntature popped giving rise to a loud noise and left, this was expected because we had our choice of the metal pin slightly so that it can remove the welds easily.
The next stage will be the final welding of the ordered to battens which now, by the book Dix are just pinned.
If there are no hitches or personal climate, we plan to finish by the end of February, after which ....
Upside down Boy, you turn me, inside and out, round and round ....
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