Submerged Cell Project Project Page 8

And here is the finished box. I still have to drill the holes for the bolts, but that shouldn't take too long. It will be a fight though to get it to sit right under the drill press though, unless I give in and use the cordless drill. I just hope that I don't roast anymore drill bits trying to do the holes. I'm more worried about the corner welds since they are right where the corner bolt holes will go, that area will be work hardened real bad, probably going to toast a few bits just trying to do those holes. As as after thought I will I had drill the holes for the fittings in the side of the top before I welded it to gether, it sure would have made it A LOT easier to weld those in too, oh well.

It was a pain in the arse at times, but I'm happy with it though. I just wish that I had used something else as a practice project, it looks good now but that bottom wasn't as nice as it could have been. I also used a whole tank of argon doing it too, so now I have to get more before I can do anything more as far as welding. Thankfully I don't have much left to do, pretty much just welding the tabs onto the plates that go inside.

Finally got the holes drilled for the 1/4-20 bolts that are installed. Using the cobalt bits made it so much easier.

I still have to get a gasket for the flange, but I think that there is enough length left on the bolts to assure a good thread bite.

Well here I am trying to get ready for cutting the electrodes out of the sheet metal that I have here. I have two 28ga(.015) sheets of 304 SS that I will hopefully be cutting into 6in by 6in squares tomorrow with Kevin Satterfield. All I'm using to shear them is a table mounted shear. The strip of sheet metal on top is the lugs for the electrodes so that I can make it a parallel setup. If I'm lucky we'll be able to get them cut and drilled so that I can hopefully have an initial run before he leaves tomorrow.

Well I'm finished marking out the first of the two sheets, hopefully this doesn't take too long to do.