Maynard

Maynard posted an update 6 years, 8 months ago

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Lyn, I am curious as to how you pre weld your seams before you use a heat gun on the seams! Do you first. Weld them with a mini Iron over a curved surface then go over the whole tube seam again with the gun and roller?
Thanks.
-Maynard-

Lyn St George replied 6 years, 8 months ago

I weld them with a Jingda iron, but just by laying the tube pieces flat and facing together. Imagine that you’re sewing the pieces together, so you add a seam allowance of 7 mm or so to each end of each tube piece and then, instead of sewing, you weld them on that seam allowance. This is where Alpacka sew theirs. You end up with a hull that’s…[Read more]

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