87 - SCHWEISSEN an Deck und wir machen LÖCHER in unsere Amel | Hafenkino.blog

The welder has to weld it. But he's not allowed to do that if it's on the GRP. But I can't hit and twist at the same time. We're going to try the housewife solution now. Pretty desperate and annoyed. Yes, I have to drill holes in my boat. On the railing of our La Licorne, some of the struts on the railing feet have broken off. And that is screwed into an upstand from the decking. And the screws are extremely tight. And I have to solve it today. This is the foot attachment. And here, for example,

the foot has broken off. The welder has to weld it. But he's not allowed to do that if it's on the GRP. You can see one of the uprights from our fixed railing and there is a console like this at the base. And this is practically the same as this. You can see it quite nicely here, for example. This one is already broken and this one broke off down here and is completely missing here. That's why the plate has to come off so that it can be welded back on. The problem is the screws and you may know

that. You try all sorts of things. With the screwdriver here. This one even has a hexagon where I can reach in with a wrench. That helps, but I can't hit and twist at the same time. And there is a very clever solution to this. I solved this with a so-called impact wrench and the impact wrench has the huge advantage. First of all, it's made of metal. So you can hit the back of it without breaking it. And it has these hardened, replaceable tips. So first set it in that direction. You can set the

direction to the left or right and then you tension it by hand until it stops and then hit it at the back with the hammer. And with every hit it turns a little bit further. And that's exactly the moment you apply the punch at the back, it turns at the front. And that's the huge advantage, that the punch is directly converted into a rotation. And this means that this one doesn't slip, it comes out of the screw head and you can easily start to loosen it. And that's the trick. So hit the screwdrive

r, I'll link it for you below, I've already solved this so far and that's why I can now unscrew it relatively easily with the screwdriver. I'm going to do it with the cordless screwdriver because it's glued in with a screw lock and I'll make it a little easier for myself. Today the welder finally came. I'm very happy about that. That's not quite ideal today because we have a bit of wind. This blows away the backup gas. And that's why we have to be careful with the welds. But he's a good guy, he'

ll do well. And yes, I had laboriously dismantled the feet last time. But I screwed them on again because it was raining heavily and then pulled the railing feet away with a strap so that he can work well and then it is covered well and then we can start. So, he's really fast. This is really quick. You can tell it's a professional. That is a good thing! The welding project really took forever. And I'm so glad it's finished. I once made a PDF where I drew everything that needed to be done and sen

t it to the welder. At the beginning he said, I can do it like this. That was my first question. The railing doesn't have to be dismantled, I asked. No, no, you can do without it. And then it took him forever to come because he wanted to see it and then he just took a look at it. And he said the whole railing fence had to be dismantled and that would have cost us a lot of time. And we also discovered afterwards that we had some connections wouldn't have gotten it at all. That means I would have

had to drill out the screws, which would have been a huge project. Then I met another welder here who also has a boat here. I started talking to him and he offered to take a look at it and do it too. And then he came, said no, we can do it that way and you can see that he has to lie down, he has to weld from below, he can't get there properly. I also understand that the quality won't be great. But that wasn't the point. These are points that you can no longer see. And my point was that if there

are one or two welding points on it, one welding point will hold a ton, then it will hold. And that's why I was very happy that I found him and he did this for me. And we welded all the points again. He comes back to clean and polish it. But I'm super happy. We finally have a project, another project finished, we can take it off the list and that also means that all the components that are still lying around on deck like the life raft, John Boy, etc., we can now put them on the railing piece by

piece reattach. And then things finally continue. You see a somewhat wild construction here, which Marion will explain to you again in a moment. We have the problem down here. This is the swivel of the jib, it is pulled up and down and at the top it ensures that the jib can turn. And now he's slowly starting to slide down. The problem we discovered when measuring the sailmaker was that it was very difficult to pull up and down. And there are two Teflon rings in there and we were already in the p

rocess of sanding down the lower Teflon ring, which is quite narrow. And then a friend - thanks Flo - pointed out to us that if we sand off too much, it starts to tilt and tilt. That's why we're trying something different now. Exactly. We're now trying the housewife's solution - cleaning. So just clean it first, because the genoa definitely hasn't been removed for ages. It's been standing there for a long time and maybe it's just dirty and we've now soaked towels, rags and microfibre cloths with

dishwashing water and are now pulling them up and down the genoa rail and cleaning the whole frame here. And the first attempt looked quite promising. Christoph just had it slip again. And I think if you spray it again with lubricant spray or something like that, we probably have the solution. Full teamwork here. Hand over hand Do you know what that looks like? Like a sloth. But that's what it does with all four legs, one above the other, always one leg over the other. We are four-legged sloths

. Do you think it's enough? So. Sloth. The second. I don't think it will be any warmer today , no, I don't think so. Show me, well, pretty dirty, right? and I'm excited. We'll do the test right away and pull the sled up and down. You say spraying? Yes, the dirt might run out the bottom. Now that's dishwashing water.? Well, that's dishwashing water now. And what most? Hmm. Let's see. Of course, that's a bit of a cheat. If we put dishwater on it, it will of course slide a little better overall. Bu

t at least we get an impression, because if necessary I'll pull it up with dishwater. But that can't be right that we need so much strength. Nope. So no. Did not work. Pretty desperate and annoyed. Yes. Don't know what we're doing yet. We'll ask around a bit again. Maybe someone else has an idea. If any of you have an idea, please post it in the comments. It's actually a shame because the weather is beautiful today. We have quite a bit of surf out there. I was there again last night and looked a

t it. And yes, it's actually too bad to be working in here today. But I want to finish the projects and the first thing is the black water tank. I've put a to-do list here. I wrote down the individual steps to make it a little easier for myself. And I have the sketch here and I'll briefly show you what I'm planning. There are a total of three strands here: the orange strand, the green strand and the purple strand or the pink strand. The orange line is first from the toilet pump through the cabin

et to a distributor valve and there I can choose whether it goes into the rising power or into the tank. So the orange is from the pump directly into the tank. Then there is the second strand. It basically goes from the toilet to outside. That would be the first orange strand and then the pink strand. And then I need a third line to practically empty the black water tank that is shown in the corner here. It has a pump on it and that's the green line. The green line practically goes from the blac

k water tank up into the risers, i.e. here into the second cabinet. There is also a distribution valve there. Then it turns into the pink and goes into the passage at the back and then outside. And there's a ventilation knee up here to break the negative pressure. That means that if I pumped through once, there is water in here, otherwise I would have a suction effect here. And this one has a little hole in it up here. This means that it lets air in here and the water level drops on this side. A

nd so this pull is no longer present. This is what it looks like overall. The toilet is down there, the black water tank is there, the valve is down here and then we have the middle level. There is one distribution valve down here, there is the second distribution valve and then up here in the top cabinet there is practically the knee in it and the riser pipe, which falls again. And the first step will be now. As far as preparing, then must. All the valves must be marked on the tank. I have to d

rill different holes, then I take out the tank, drill the holes and dismantle the toilet that I have room for here. And the second step will be to install all the lines here. And at the end there is a very unpleasant task. I don't feel like it. So the toilet is finally out. I now have space here to continue. That was really difficult because some screws were just stuck. Some of them have already turned out of the ground here , broken off or couldn't be turned out at all. Um, and then I had to mo

re or less force it out. I first destroyed the cover to get to the screws. That only worked to a limited extent. Then I completely dismantled it and then did it again with the base outside on the footbridge and even then I had to use heavy equipment to get to the screws. But now it's okay so far. The toilet bowl is disconnected and is clean and I can now continue here and my next operation will be. Here below. Disconnect the water hose from the sea valve. And this is a job that gives me a bit of

a stomach ache. But we'll see how that goes. It has to go down somewhere. It's a stupid corner. I can't even approach it properly. In the worst case scenario, I have to remove the cover. And that would mean taking down the closet. But now I'll take a look, I'll give it a try! Let's see. Now comes one of the tasks that I don't like at all. I have to drill holes in my boat. Not out there yet, but at least in something that has been around for 30 years. And I don't like changing anything on the bo

at. But it just has to be that way. I've already taped it off here, a vent has to go through up here, so the vent hose has to go through there and the fecal feed has to go through here. And there is no way around it. There has to be one hole, two. I now block the entire salon here. The toilet is back there. All the tools are lined up here. Spare parts The tank is now down here. And that's where I'll be next time. This is the toilet conversion kit. This here and this is the pump from the tank. An

d I'm going to test both of these first before I somehow wire them up and get them ready, because it would be stupid if it didn't work and then I installed it. So it worked. Both. Both the pump and the toilet conversion kit here. For test stories like this, I made a spiral cable with a twelve-volt plug on it. And here just the Wago terminals again and then I can quickly and easily connect these cables here. That would be a minus here, because you just put it in and snap it shut once. That's tota

lly awesome and you can take any cable and test any device really quickly. Especially if you don't trust the management. If a device suddenly stops working, you can disconnect the device, the cable and hook the device up here and simply plug it into the socket that you previously checked to see if it works and that's a quick fix and from me, where I always try, if some devices don't work, whether it 's the line or whether there's a fuse in the line, that could also be the case. This can be done

better. Yes. It's evening. I'm in the salon. Marion is typing next to me. And I will now insert the outputs with silicone. Or with Sika and have prepared it so far. Holes have been specially cleaned with alcohol and now I'll put them in again and don't tighten them too much in the soft Sika and then tomorrow I'll tighten them again, then I'll have a really nice seal in there.