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making my alicraft watertight
Bought an old 12ft alicraft and two motors for a good price. Leak tested it and found it leaking from 6 spots.
my mate is a machinist so we decided it would be fun to learn how to solid rivet.
the set up
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testing on a spot of the hull that had rusty galv bolts but is above the waterline :on fire:
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starting to fix the damage.
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the end result.
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the solid rivets courtesy of Xi Jinping
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The aftermath of finding steel cored pop rivets :psychotic:
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a photo of the boat on the manukau
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Patching the worst of the corrosion
Got off work late after working in a freezer room all day :dark mood:
But with my mate's mum wanting her garage back there was nothing to it but to crack on.
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removed the serviceable plywood and removed any corrosion
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siliconed and cut Ali strips to reinforce it
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we then proceeded to make the patch repair
Couldn't find a place nearby that sold Ali sheet metal off cuts for a reasonable price so I ended up buying a sheet from jaycar!
we bent and hammered it into shape.
flap disc on the angle grinder to flatten to domes on the original rivets
siliconed the patch and pop riveted it into place before drilling holes for the solids and finally removing the pop rivets and replacing them with solids.
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weather is not good so no test run today. But I'll have another update soon as we're going to reinforce the transom further for the 15hp.