I was like a cold and windy and rainy day so I'm not going to get to finish my Wells
out there today but welcome to setting vessel Seeker we appreciate you coming along for
the ride we are tuning Our cell rig so that we can do some more sailing we've sailed a
few days out there and learned some things we want to change now we're changing those
and it's coming along well in this video I managed to resheat that forward sail and build
that sail crutch out there and also modify those tulip shoes on patreon we're doing something
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dollar Patron and you still see them and I'm trying this at his experiment but it may be
something I keep doing because what I do when I edit video is I put it all together I make
it's really a long thing and then I go through and I start throwing stuff away well I'm throwing
less of it away and trying to make a long video put that out on patreon and then I can
shorten it on down to this 10 minute video so here you go [Music] oh such a pretty weld
it's a shame to cut it but it needs to be done what I'm doing is I'm moving this crutch
this Crush normally holds this sail bundle up a little bit so it can be tied down and
secured but I put it in the center of the boat and it really doesn't go in the center
it goes off to that side where cell bundle is because the forward sail bundles off to
the port and this needs to be off the port so I'm moving it over foreign [Music]
[Music] also be careful not to step on that line it goes to the horn
another reason why I just love metal boats if you don't like where it is cut it off weld
it on somewhere else no big deal so I wanted to go right there but it's angling up too
much I need to put longer tabs so it's further down and I can Notch to this bar a little
bit I can bring it down a little bit if I can't bring out too much because the sheets
come back through here underneath those sheaves up there
feels good to have a grinder back in my hands yeah that's about right
and so the wider so the sail can come down into it it's bigger Target to hit but still
bunches it up
okay I got my polarity wrong this TIG is reverse polarity oh yeah there we go somebody mentioned
my uh my TIG welding here and it's being done by a scratch start a TIG welder meaning that
I have to touch the tungsten to the metal in order to ignite The Arc now that's something
you normally don't want to do because when the metal is molten it'll just crawl right
up that tungsten in then you got to take over the grinder and grind that off and sharpen
the tip back up and get it good again but in this case the metal is not molten so you
touch it to hard metal you just gotta tip it to it some people actually scratch it and
it ignites this thing allow me to demonstrate just turn the gas on first sometimes it'll
stick sometimes you'll get it on the first go there the nice thing about scratch Stars
you don't need any fancy Electronics in the welding machine you just need a common old
DC welder and I'm using a Miller macstar 150s and it's not a very cheap welder but it is
very compacted and it runs off 110 volts so you can just carry it around and do anything
anywhere as long as it's TIG or stick
oh good old stainless you got to be careful drilling a stainless it'll Harden you know
if your bit you're using is not pulling some metal off stop using it you don't want that
to get hot and so what I do is I step up you know a small hole and then grow that hole
that's a nicer way to get the hole the size you want without work hardening I got one
more size to go up now because once you work hard in it you are in a world of pain
all right
it's a little windy out here for this but if I can just get it tacked on
okay I'm not gonna bother clamping this down the tack starts with no filler Rod you can
just melt the two metals together
that might have it yep it does it's a tiny little spot that's all you got to do to hold
it together and then you can come back and put some more filler in with the filler I'll
build it up so it's like that one oh yeah I think that'll be great so before Eric flew
back to Europe he came up with this design for a brace just don't like the way this sticks
out because it'd end right here but you know another idea would be to have it hinged onto
this pipe permanently attached you know we'll try that I'll just weld a bolt on there and
it can latch on the bolt the head will keep it from going off to the side so I have an
idea for a hinge on that thing I just also thought I was Stronger Than This too so yeah
now it's got a pin Bend this right to the pipe he's a little tension relief right there
[Music] works for me and well we'll fill in for the sense so we'll just make a couple
little straight cuts right there roll out the red carpet for the shavings
yeah the other piece is just a tab for a bolt to go through and I could use something thin
or something a little thicker and I like going with the thicker thin I can't ever make it
rounded over so that could go into your cranium pretty good whereas something thicker I can
round it over a bit and still if you don't pay attention it's blunt force trauma but
maybe we don't have to pull it back out of your skull so I'll roll this onto the pipe
leaving a little bit to stick out and then this will latch over it you know what I'm
going to need something bigger than that I'd do more latch area yeah remember these okay
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put a little bevel on this to make it easier to weld on
okay one half inch Notch I'm going to clean it up with a grinder but it's almost there
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I'm gonna close up the end of this pipe because any pipe left with an open end becomes a flute
on a sailboat
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that'll work
just gonna blob it on and grind It Off
not being patient just gotta let it cool encourage it to cool oh that's ugly let it cool let
it cool good in a rush
yeah let's see if the Grider can bring some beauty back to that mess
okay there that ain't too bad won't be a whistle won't put a hole in somebody's head so get
out in your shop and start welding and start grinding you'll get better at one of them
touched it now time to go to the grinder
now I've seen a lot of YouTube videos on how to grind the tungsten and even gadgets that'll
help you grind the tungsten into perfect shape and I think it's all hogwash you know maybe
if you weld as good as a Jody over welding tips and tricks you might see a difference
for me I can get a beautiful weld sometimes I can get a crappy Weld and I do it with all
the same tungsten so I don't think there's anything to it thank you
I hope I get the tax before I burn my finger getting awful warm there they go I think I
got it there we go no I got it smallest attacks in there that'll do and use two hands now
what look at that thing below
see if I can do any better on this one here we go confidence is low set low standards
and you'll bound to meet them
well you know the old saying practice makes uh not quite as bad as last time
at least it took a lot less grinding all right I got a clamp on there and it's precariously
lashed to that wind is picked up even more but maybe we can get attacked
well miracles do occur
okay now we wait for the wind to go away we finish it got the perfect evening how did
you see my glasses
the leg extender too
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[Music] all right this was going to flip over ouch it's hot that way and it has to clear
the line coming from this sheath going to that sheave that sheath is set way back so
it doesn't clear that line so my solution is to bring it back this way and I put a piece
of Hose onto the railing here with a couple of zip ties only on you can stick it inside
that hose hold on to it I think that will work stand this up slide that over lock it
in
that'll do I'll do absolutely gorgeous
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oh yeah I love it it's about waiting for the right moment you know when it start to come
back around and just let it go sweet now the comet comes up a lot of like am I going to
damage the cell cloth because those you know those points on that crutch the soap cloth
is going to pull across them now you know they're not sharp they're rounded over but
they're still you know points you wouldn't want to do that to normal lightweight Dacron
cell cloth but that's not what we're using my red carpet here is a piece of cell cloth
I walk on I step on it with grindings all over it and I repeatedly do that this stuff
is 11 ounce Top Gun it's the same fabric that's used on awnings over the front of buildings
you know you put a light behind it it glows at night it's real pretty Sunbrella is another
maker of it it's basically the same stuff it's UV protected on both sides it's basically
a bi-directional cloth with plastic coated over both sides of it so no stretch in either
direction and one of the steps while we're making this thing is yeah this device there's
a whole video where you can see is making these sales but this is literally a technique
too uh get a fold in this stuff you take this all or ice pick and press down as hard as
you can and drag it along in a straight line that's what it does it kind of impresses into
the plastic Edge so now that makes it easier to fold that over and create a seam so if
that's part of the process of making your sails I don't think you got a lot to worry
about with this Top Gun material and the odd thing too is that will stretch back out you'll
hardly even see where that was well that's the end of this video I got welding to do
down in the engine room I'm sure you got something out in your shop too I hope you get out there
and get at it and send me a photo inspire me tell me to get off the couch you know it's
a hard thing for me to do too but we can support each other in that you know it's you feel
good once you do it once you have something in your hand that you made doesn't matter
what it is that's uh that's a good day so have a good day send us a photo what'd you
make today thank you
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