{"id":19299,"date":"2011-11-18T00:03:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T05:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/?p=19299"},"modified":"2011-11-17T23:33:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T04:33:38","slug":"welding-cautions-on-a-completed-yacht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/welding-cautions-on-a-completed-yacht\/","title":{"rendered":"Welding Cautions On A Completed Yacht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Welding-in-situ-101-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Welding-in-situ-101-2.jpg\" alt=\"Welding-in-situ-101-2.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"349\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the great things about metal yachts is the ease of making structural connections in a totally watertight fashion, by welding. When this takes place on a completed vessel certain cautions need to be observed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All equipment with electronic circuits on them should have their breakers turned off.<\/li>\n<li>Sensitive electronics, like engine CPUs may need to be totally disconnected.<\/li>\n<li>The ground connection for the welder must be kept close to the point of welding.<\/li>\n<li>Flammable materials must be removed from the welding area.<\/li>\n<li>A fire watch should be maintained, with an extinguisher close at hand.<\/li>\n<li>Finished surfaces must be protected.<\/li>\n<li>A remote sensing temperature gun can be very helpful in watching for hot spots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Welding-in-situ-100-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Welding-in-situ-100-21.jpg\" alt=\"Welding-in-situ-100-2.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"483\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These photos were taken while while we were having several pieces of awning track stitch welded to the starboard corner mullion. On the inside of the mullion the highest temperature near a weld was 170F\/77C. By the time we were four inches\/100mm away with the infra red sensor the temperature was down to 90F\/31C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about metal yachts is the ease of making structural connections in a totally watertight fashion, <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/setsail.com\/welding-cautions-on-a-completed-yacht\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dashew-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setsail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}