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Jon and V Boat Conversions & Modifications
typed by ben's 2001 Lowe 1648M all aluminum build (UD 6/27)
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<blockquote data-quote="typed by ben" data-source="post: 333317" data-attributes="member: 11717"><p>man oh man, had hardly any time for the boat these last couple weeks. but they have not been without progress.</p><p></p><p>cut up my hatch lids and formed them last week, then welded them tonight[ATTACH=full]58093[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>they were super flimsy out of the brake which had me worried about the deck material i had selected, but they tightened right up when i welded the corners. that was a nice surprise.</p><p></p><p>to make formed parts, shooting from the hip is cool and all but ultimately very wasteful. thats why you always have a plan- in this case i needed to maintain a 1.00" lid height so i can add the edge trim and remain flush with my deck. in order to do that we had to do some math to account for the metal stretching as it is bent, thats called the bend deduction. i subtract my bend deduction from my nominal size to get a cut size- form it up and it will fall right where you want.[ATTACH=full]58094[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="typed by ben, post: 333317, member: 11717"] man oh man, had hardly any time for the boat these last couple weeks. but they have not been without progress. cut up my hatch lids and formed them last week, then welded them tonight[ATTACH type="full" alt="20131029_202436.jpg"]58093._xfImport[/ATTACH] they were super flimsy out of the brake which had me worried about the deck material i had selected, but they tightened right up when i welded the corners. that was a nice surprise. to make formed parts, shooting from the hip is cool and all but ultimately very wasteful. thats why you always have a plan- in this case i needed to maintain a 1.00" lid height so i can add the edge trim and remain flush with my deck. in order to do that we had to do some math to account for the metal stretching as it is bent, thats called the bend deduction. i subtract my bend deduction from my nominal size to get a cut size- form it up and it will fall right where you want.[ATTACH type="full" alt="20131029_203211.jpg"]58094._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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