Epoxy bonding a steel transom bracket so motors/platform can be added. Lifeboat Conversion Ep76 [4K]
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
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EPISODE 76
With a new angle grinder, the steel bracket is cut, bent and welded. All that's needed is to carefully fit it to the transom. Plus, a bonus extravaganza of me bolting a mooring post to the stern deck. You lucky lot.
Products mentioned:
Dirty Pro Tools 100A Arc welder
125 x 75mm 8mm steel angle section
Everbuild PU40 sealant
PC-11 epoxy putty adhesive
Stainless steel mooring post
Model: NME A/S (Husnes, Norway) 7.5m TELB
Engine: Bukh DV48 turbo diesel
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Love this restoration series, will be bittersweet when Alan is done
Then the journey begins! I'm sure there will be repairs along the way....
Alan will never be done. Always a project for tomorrow.
Thank goodness!
god bless you to think that a boat is done..... Boats are always a work in progress.
an easy way to keep the spanner on an iron bolt is to stick a large magnet on it, works great on screwdrivers too, with stainless i've found that a cardboard strip over the bolt and then banging the socket or spanner on works in a pinch. Putting one of the stickers on a water bottle was a good way to give us a visual scale of the medium one.
that thin garbage packaging plastic works really well for getting the socket and bolt jammed together. Can even bunch up a bunch in the socket if you need to set the depth of the bolt at the end of the socket.
With a bit of trick photography, you could appear on the inside tightening the nut and on the outside holding the bolt. Many of my fellow Americans would be amazed that this!
You're right Alex, your welder is a little feeble for 1/4" steel. but at least it saved you having to worry about the inevitable (and sometimes spectacular) heat-warping you'd have had to deal with if you'd used a properly sized one!
Remember, you only suck at welding if it breaks (so far, so good!)
I did try it on very thin steel in a test, and just 'evaporated' the steel! I need to find a happy medium...
@@AlexHibbertOriginals Funnily enough, for an optimistically-rated 100A welder around 3mm would be the happy medium (or would that be median, i'm not good with statistics)
Coincidentally, 3mm is a good thickness for most general-purpose diy bracketry you might need. so you might want to try to use the same thickness for any future welding projects, that way you'll find it easier to walk the line between adequate penetration and molten puddles of bracket littering the floor. Keeping the variables to a minimum when learning is key. So is a good (auto-darkening) helmet, it's much easier to weld with 2 hands and clear vision!
Alan swim platform is really coming along. Great update 2x👍
There's a saying... A grinder and paint make me the welder I ain't....
I am absolutely loving this series, will be pleased for you when Alan is completed but sad that I my favourite u tube channel will be gone forever 😢
It won't end! There will be the voyages.
@@AlexHibbertOriginals awesome
Please have a dedicated video on the “remote spanner technique” … this is a much needed skill for my Humvee restoration project!
if you countersink your holes and use butyl tape it will never leak. its the bolts you seal not the post.
Allan's awesome.
You are a braver man than me, I did this way above the waterline, then used angle brackets to bring the engine mountpoint closer to the water, because of the UKraine war I will probably go with a pair of cheap Chinese electric waterjets at between £400 and £1000 each, the combination of water jet, electric power and small size means the boat should probably be invisible. For better or worse Russia has pretty much claimed the arctic and being able to work unnoticed I consider a great bonus in the current climate, also it allows me to research cetaceans whilst minimising their awareness of me. Alan is looking great.
LoL glued back together. 🤣
For that thickness you can go with 140Amps. Difficult to burn through it.
Great work
As we say. "A grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain't."
"Vice grips" or "locking pliers" over the pond?! Anyhow that's the best solution for solo blind bolt work.
They still need something to jam against to avoid rotating.
You really know how to put a spanner in things. 🤣
wouldn't an additional steel plate on the inside be a better brace than a few wide washers?
For the mooring post? Probably, but then you'd need to get the hole placement in the plate spot on. Thick wide washers save the hassle.
You could have stuck the steel plate in place with some mastic and then drilled both the fibreglass and steel at the same time, too late now but its always an option if the washers arnt man enough
Cressent make a 10" locking adjustable spanner. I pick up one for my boat for solo bolt tightening operations
It's not so much the locking that's tricky, but you're somewhat relying on whatever spanner you use on the 'unmanned' side staying put and being jammed against something so it can't rotate.
To clean the raw steel, a brittle purple cleaning disk is best. It looks like a sponge.
I think you should really have used Stainless steel here.
A beam of this size and thickness in 316 SS would bankrupt me.
Given the bar at the rear is a platform with weight leverage to the rear only counteracted with bolts (and glue) , I would suggest flat bar or a wider sheet of metal on the inside to prevent the bolts angling up under weight and tearing the inside of the boat. If you think about it, only a very thin width on the outside and a couple of washers on the inside (I will never trust a glue) has to handle a lot of downwards force as you extend outwards. Give me a lever long enough......
*"(I will never trust a glue)"*
Then you're not thinking things through clearly.. as many hundreds, if not thousands, of tests right here on UA-cam have proven again and again, modern glues are so good that the material being glued will break before the glue itself does.
@@Garryck-1 So why use bolts at all?
@@sodoffxx - To hold it firmly in place while the epoxy cures. That thing is heavy.
Space permitting, rather than using large OD washers, a piece of 6mm or quarter inch steel plate with 4x holes drilled in could do the job. Find some scrap - heck even a couple of pieces of flat bar could do the job.
Yeah I've done that in a few areas. But washers are pre drilled and thick ones are spot on for the job.
I like it 👍🏻
A quick splash of some red oxide paint will stop the rust.
I wish them your videos would be longer sometimes 45 minutes to an hour would be good
45 minutes on me sticking a piece of steel to a piece of GRP would send some people off the edge!
With an impact driver you're able to tighten a screw with a loose nut on the other side. It won't work with a nyloc nut though, it has too much friction.
Also, that's a very nice and thicc transom, looking great ;)
Yes, the fundamentals of Alan's build were excellent. Solid GRP, and use of woven, not just CSM glass.
AMAZINGNES!!!
wow a power grinder with 50 more wattsthen the older one ..... that's what I call a real power tool for real men.
What does he mean by 156 of 1 and 13 dozen of another?
That is indeed a horrible welder. I had that too, then I bought much smaller one for €100, and I realized that DC-welding is much easier. I even managed to weld some aluminium parts on my kayak.
drilling so many holes in it it will surely sink like a brick.
I have this rule where I don't take buoyancy advice from people unable to use basic punctuation. :)
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Vise grips.
Ah yes the “I hate throwing away these plastic containers”
But also
“The solvent required took how much energy to make?!”
For the single person nut/bolt tightening, I've used a set of Vice-Grip locking wrench/pliers that are specifically designed to attach to a hex head bolt or nut. You still have to brace it to stop it free spinning, but it won't fall off like a regular wrench will. The specific model numbers I have in the set are the 4LW, 7LW, and 10LW. Really saves the day when you need it.
ua-cam.com/video/k1GT4wrPF5U/v-deo.html
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1 complaint Sir. You forgot the overly ambitious and artistic time lapse. ;)
Just you wait until Sunday!
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Glad you're back on grindr 🍆🍆
That's not what he meant!
I was going to say ‘use another human being’ till you said not to say ‘use another human being. Oh well.
For tightening bolts that another "human" would be useful for , just use an apprentice. They dont count as human and are expendable 😂😂 i joke...