Interior Cleanup

Tonight I cleaned up around the forward water connections for the trim tanks, removed all the surface rust with rustbuster and gave it a thick coat of primer.  There's still a few more little things to be welded around the place, namely the brackets for the water pipes, the bolts for the concrete ballast and the tensioning system for the rudder cable.

20/01/2015

20/01/2015

Also I welded in extra support for the rudder pedal bracket and cut out the middle so now the forward pipe sections can be slotted in nicely once the front dome goes on.

Before:

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After:

20/01/2015

Blog Update #1

Check out the updates for the design of the submarine in the link below!

http://thejackalsubmarine.blogspot.com.au/p/gal.html

Work platform upgrade!

Originally the work platform was made out of wood and was sturdy and strong - that is until I decided to put 300 kg of submarine on it; and I was still expecting it to hold up another 600 kg without complaining.  But it was beginning to look a little unhappy so I decided to rebuild the whole thing from scratch, making it from 2 inch square steel.  Also I finally got around to making the whole thing level!  The reason I didn't get around to leveling it off earlier was because the wood structure wasn't rigid enough to be worth it.

Here it is after a the first day.

14/01/2015

Out with the old and in with the new!  The old one had served it's purpose long enough.  I'll begin dismantling it tomorrow and return dads screws...

17/01/2015

Finished and ready for action!  It's a lot easier to work around and is much more stable.  Now it'll take a ton!

17/01/2015

Building : The Work Platform