Tidy Up #1

Over the last few weeks I've been cleaning up a few bad welds that were done earlier on, and I cleaned out all the surface rust on the inside of the sub and gave it a thick undercoat of paint.

Fig. #1, Fig. #2 & Fig. #3 show the bad welds on the front dome.  This was caused by contaminants in the weld pool.  Probably due to the steel not being cleaned properly first.  These were some of my first welds.

Fig. #1
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Fig. #2
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Fig. #3
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Fig. #4.  The inside of the front ready to be painted with kill rust undercoat.  It took a few hours lying down at awkward angles with an angle grinder and a wire brush in the drill to clean all the surface-rust off.

Fig. #4
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Fig. #5 & Fig. #6.  The front finished.  I may yet put a top coat over it, but that won't be until the sub has been fully tested.

Fig. #5
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Fig. #6
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Fig. #7.  I hooked up Dad's dust extractor to pull out all the fumes from the paint, it worked really well.  It also kept a nice cool airflow through the sub.

Fig. #7
14/11/2016

Fig. #8.  The inside of the rear all done.

Fig. #8
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Next job is the hatch dome!