Welding blankets

[belfert]

I won't get out to the bus tonight as it is 100 degrees today, but probably tomorrow.

OH NO YOU DON'T!
As much time as you spent inside this winter and spring because it was TOO COLD to go out and work on the bus!
Get yer butt out there and sweat a little MR!

I just got back at noon yesterday from spending 6 days at a Scout camp doing volunteer construction work.  I got there last Tuesday around 1:30 pm.  From Wednesday through Sunday there wasn't a day I didn't work at least 10 hours and a few 12 hour days.

I'm still too tired to work outdoors in 100 degree heat right now.  I should be recovered by tomorrow and it is supposed to be 80 degrees tomorrow.

At camp it was only 43 degrees in the morning last Wednesday.  I had to run the heat in the cabin I was staying in.  It was in the low 80s one day so there was a 40 degree temperature swing during my stay.  It was nice weather other than about 4 hours of really high humidity on Friday.  I was shocked on the drive home Monday morning when they said it was supposed to be 93 degrees at home and it actually hit 97 degrees for a new record.

[luvrbus]

Roof tops don't weigh much around 100 lbs the weight spread over the area is not much per sq in 2x2 wood framing on most travel trailers

good luck

[belfert]

My main concern is I want to have the framing tied into the rest of the bus.  That 2x2 frame in a travel trailer is tied to the rest of the roof system.

I can get the welding done easily enough.  I just don't want sparks to burn any holes in the couch or seats when I do this.

[artvonne]

  The moron who started converting my MC5, cut through the center beam (stringer) to put up roof airs. They also filled around the hole with wood. It hasnt hurt anything, yet.

  The roof airs will be replaced with crank out vents/fantastics, so im not going to fill the holes and move the openings, nor am I going to replace the beam.

   My thoughts are to build a tube steel insert and rivet it into the hole, then weld or rivet it to the ends of the cut beam.

  If I were welding in a finished conversion, I would want to cover everything in the immediate area as welds can spatter, even good wire feeds with gas, and the stuff can bounce and riccochet, and travel quite a distance. If you cover stuff with heavy cardboard you can cover the cardboard with wet blankets, and someone with a spray bottle can douse any that get through. Hang the welding blanket under the hole like a cylinder, so everything should hit it and fall to the floor, rather than laying on the blanket. Wet blankets on the floor should catch everything.