Today I went in to the metal workshop to connect my canisters together.
I found that some of the canisters were still, in fact, full of gas- so I had to purge them (which took a couple of hours in itself!). To so so, I drilled a hole in the bottom of the canisters and filled them with water, which forced the gas out.
Next I cut some spare pipes to the lengths that I wanted them before bending them and welding them on to some threads which would then screw on to the canisters. I used threads so that the piece will become an amalgam of lots of separate parts which can be easily assembled and transportable.
I learnt how to weld and reminded myself how to use the angle grinder and metal bender. A very fulfilling and satisfying process. I love seeing the sculpture come together bit by bit, even if it is quite lengthly!
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- Purging the canisters
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- Purging the canisters
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- Purging the canisters
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- Bending pipes
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- Welding Experiments
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- Welding Experiments
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- Welding Experiments
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- The thread I used to connect the canister to the pipe.
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- The canisters connected using threads and pipes.
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- The canisters connected using threads and pipes.
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