<div dir="ltr">Thanks Sean, I have never been taught how stress works in steel. We just had a metallurgist that would tell us what they wanted and we did it. I always bevel the edges and then leave a 3/16" gap for the root so that I don't have to back gouge. <div>Rick</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 8:02 AM Sean T. Stevenson via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Rick - Should be fine. A full penetration weld, done properly, is actually stronger than the base metal. Your only concern would be reinforcement, but that through-hull fitting looks beefy enough to more than meet the requirements for hull material replacement. You will want to bevel the edges around your hole to ensure that the new weld is full penetration all around, and once you start welding one side, will need to grind or backgouge into the root / clean metal from the opposite side before laying passes on that side.<br><br>I presume from your sketch that the fitting will be radially oriented through the cylindrical hull exclusively (i.e. fitting axis passes through hull axis), and does not land on the head curvature where it would be tangential or offset?<br><br>Sean<br><br>-------- Original Message --------<br>On Apr. 22, 2022, 11:43, Rick Patton via Personal_Submersibles < <a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote><br><p dir="ltr">I am not knowledgeable in metallurgy or structural stress as applied to metal so was wondering if what I wanted to do was acceptable.<br>
The best place to mount my arm to the sub would make the thorough hull release fitting go through the full penn weld that attaches the front dished dome to the hull.<br>
Is that acceptable?<br>
Rick<br><br></p>
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