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Very interesting project. Nice that it's not so big it requires a yard or special equipment to move and work on.

Thanks

Looks fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFcku5Qao3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFcku5Qao3s

"Welding steel is SOooo much easier than working with that miracle metal..." I'll fight you, but alas my muscles have been weakened from years of easy work with the lightweight aluminum. It cuts fast with wood working tools, when the hot bee bee's hit flesh they cool far faster than the ev...

This is sarcasm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=httSHnNXN10

I would have to look to know for sure. If I remember correctly Ernest Sims talks about riveting.

May I suggest some reading.

Welcome to AAB.
Do you have pictures of the metalboatkits build?
Please post some, thanks.

Update: May have been the wrong anodes and a broken jumper wire.
Sanded, painted, replaced anodes and jumper wire.
Seems to be doing well, I haven't looked at it.

I'd like to see how the exhaust is routed on the inside.

Is it pitted, rough, chalky, flaking metal away?

Scrolling down my Facebook feed and I see an add.
What does Wooldridge think of their welding equipment?
I'm still welding along with my old Miller syncrowave 250 but I am getting an itch for a new inverter machine to tig this anodized aluminum.

The price point alone says no way.

The one picture's gone

What is the stamped number? is it a HIN

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Optomist Fabricator

1/8" wall 1"x2" box tube can be rolled or arched manually. Bump bending between blocks of wood anchored to a stout table or vice. wood shoes in a vice to save scratching the metal. 1st try if you haven't done this before make a template (line on the floor, table or part of the curve i...

Thanks Eastern metal is my regular supplier for anodized material, I try to buy what I can from them. https://www.easternmetal.com/ Alro metals when I need steel, stainless or metals eastern doesn't carry. https://www.alro.com/ Both have minimum orders for one of their trucks to stop by, but both ha...

I'm going to make a flounder gigging pole for my father in law out of aluminum. Almost all of the locals use a wood pole of some sort or a NON ALLOY push pole. It's main use will be for stabbing flat fish in shallow water then lifting up in a fashion to keep them from sliding back off the barbed tri...

And that right there helped marine wiring click in my grey matter. "D) The DC negative Buss is correctly BONDED to the hull in ONE (single) location with a silver clad 'lug' onto a dedicated and sacrificial aluminum lug or padeye, with a bolt; and that location is shielded from being wetted.&qu...

gandrfab wrote: ↑Tue Feb 19, 2019 1:16 pm What does AAB recommend for paint?

Back to the top. This still could still use cleaning and painting.

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Remove all combustibles, happily weld clean metal. Possibly fill with argon.

Ventilate, circulate, positive air flow taking any fumes away.

1/4 full fuel tank, pressurize tank wait till you smell fumes and (make yourself right with Jesus) then strike an arc.