Tensions finally arrived, we were jealous of our colleagues around the world who daily struggle with the side effects of welding, at one point even thought to be immune, a vaccine to have the divine, none of this, no law "ad personam".
while welding in recent days, the manic controls which are curved plates, was there that we concentrate 100% of our troops have reviewed continuously throughout the boat after each section of welding the plates in a total neglect and straight battens now permanently welded to the frames. General Aluminium was smarter than us, attacked us from behind.
In practice we have been too precise in the installation of sheet Flat 3 meters, thinking that a plate was immune from such a large expansion, we had purposely failed to leave 2 or 3 mm of space between each plate and the other to be facilitated in the future in welding. The expansion was rather sensitive and which he met plates (hawk and stomach), there was an emphasis on the "V", inside, near the vertical cuts, the battens are detached from the skin of the hull also 2 cm.
while welding in recent days, the manic controls which are curved plates, was there that we concentrate 100% of our troops have reviewed continuously throughout the boat after each section of welding the plates in a total neglect and straight battens now permanently welded to the frames. General Aluminium was smarter than us, attacked us from behind.
In practice we have been too precise in the installation of sheet Flat 3 meters, thinking that a plate was immune from such a large expansion, we had purposely failed to leave 2 or 3 mm of space between each plate and the other to be facilitated in the future in welding. The expansion was rather sensitive and which he met plates (hawk and stomach), there was an emphasis on the "V", inside, near the vertical cuts, the battens are detached from the skin of the hull also 2 cm.
After the initial panic we took the hose and cut welding, magic, everything is back to normal, took only about 3 mm of the cut to eliminate the "beaks which had been formed, this fact sheet we move closer to the battens and resolder everything. Some
battens instead expands between ordered and orderly are slightly wavy, the frightening crash that sometimes felt when welding outside, were appuntature battens of the hull that jumped on those we could not intervene, we have simply to riappuntate plates.
shame not to see more from the linearity that gave the hull battens, patience.
We had an excess of zeal in the meantime sent an alert to the problems encountered Dix received the usual series of laconic reply "you had better write down the battens to the hull and read the book (how to build an aluminum boat, written by a fellow American). "
The wavy battens where they wanted to have done so regardless of the number of appuntature who, during his visit Florence Dix had been very explicit in telling us that the battens were to be paid after the rest of the hull was welded both inside and outside and so we thought it was merely in a gentle way so that if somehow they had to "download" it could have done. In short, we believe that the tensions should not remain dormant all my life waiting for the opportune moment ... as the lives of couples, let off steam every now and then is better.
And now a bit 'of good news, welding outer hull is complete and we have already started to unwrap it.
We have also checked the symmetry of the hull which has remained unchanged.
This week we will begin to settle inside the hull while others will end up discarding the outside.
And now a bit 'of good news, welding outer hull is complete and we have already started to unwrap it.
We have also checked the symmetry of the hull which has remained unchanged.
This week we will begin to settle inside the hull while others will end up discarding the outside.
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