<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div><span>Brian,</span></div><div><span>Overlay welding is very common-Gamma has overlay weld on the hatch land. I do fully expect it to warp, but the overlay weld will be sufficiently thick to machine it true again. I will order some ss wire and weld up a shaft and see how it machines in my lathe before I jump into this. I can always hang it upside down in a vat to nickel plate it.</span></div><div><span>Hank</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, November 14, 2016 7:38 PM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv2910925228"><div><div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div>Would not really be feasible to do that, Hank, It's very tough material first of all, and I want to be able to change props to tweet performance. I don't want some odd ball prop connection that is not compatible with the rest of the world.</div><div> </div><div> You could have the thing machined perfect ( or you do it) first before you put it on, then machine out any warp-age . I think you're asking for trouble doing a overlay. That could warp as well.</div><div> </div><div>Brian<br clear="none"><br clear="none">--- personal_submersibles@psubs.org wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br clear="none">To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br clear="none">Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] overlay welding<br clear="none">Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 01:02:20 +0000 (UTC)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv2910925228yqt2245302685" id="yiv2910925228yqt17893"><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><span>Brian,</span></div><div><span>That would be tough because the seat is conical, also it will be much cheaper to overlay weld. </span></div><div>Why don't you make a bolt on axel extension to hold the prop. machine the axel hub down so it is just big enough to bolt to it.</div><div>Hank</div> <div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div style="display:block;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Monday, November 14, 2016 5:30 PM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<br clear="none"></font></div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div><div><div><div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div>Hank, Why don't you just weld on a stainless ring an inch or so thick and then machine that?</div><div> </div><div>Brian<br clear="none"><br clear="none">--- personal_submersibles@psubs.org wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br clear="none">To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br clear="none">Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] overlay welding<br clear="none">Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 00:17:56 +0000 (UTC)<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div>Hi All,</div><div dir="ltr">I am back to work on Elementary 3000 and first on the list is to overlay weld my hatch seat with stainless steel and machine it down again. I am building a vertical turret lathe instead of using my flange facing machine. I am building the lathe as an experiment also for a future project. </div><div dir="ltr">My question is, what type of SS wire should I use. There is a chance that the sub will see salt water. I need to keep in mind that the material needs to be machining friendly.</div><div dir="ltr">Hank</div></div></div>_______________________________________________
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