fresh water hunter's hull build

[fresh water hunter]

Well Its been a long time coming but got some material and here we go i just want to thank every one for there build post's it has helped me

[fresh water hunter]

that was day one here is day two lots of welding

[Rollbar]

What are the specks on the Aluminum and size/length of boat?
How tall are the gunnels/sides?

Looking good.

[fresh water hunter]

it is 12 ft long and 5 ft bottom with 20 in gunnels 76 wide at top of transom all .125th. aluminum

[Corky]

Great job !!! Looking good....Glad to see you're getting your project started...It's a great feeling getting the pieces welded together and have the overall shape formed does'nt it ???

[fresh water hunter]

it sure does. ran out of wire burnt my last tip off to the weld shop for you guys that weld aluminum i have been using maxel 4943 wire that suff is great flows like 4043 but but way stronger i wont us 4043 once my stock is gone

[Papee]

You can save some of the tips. Just take a file lightly over the tip. Most times you can reuse the tip after you pull out the wire. If they are bad you can't save them. I rarely burn a tip any more but I did go through a few when I started.

[txriverrat]

I use to do a lot of aluminium work in my fab shop , a little trick on the tips.
Run a flat file over the end ,like pappee said , pull out the wire . If it leaves a ring or a piece of wire in the tip ,get a set of micro drill bits . Drill out the tip and then smooth out with a set of torch tip cleaners. I have reused hundreds of tips done this way
Ron

[fresh water hunter]

got a little more done than had to head to florida again best friend is dyeing damn cancer 52 yr old

[fresh water hunter]

here are some more pics

[Corky]

Coming along nicely...I'm not sure I'd go through the trouble of welding my rudder back edges if I had to do it over...I'd probably just rivet a center piece between the two halves ...It was a big pain welding them like I did...

[fresh water hunter]

ya i thought about that and i got the rivets thanks corky