wow...Paco - thank you very much! - and your work is beautiful
1. two create the two halves, I used magnets - so similar to what you are suggesting - I started at the corners (but on the outsides) - my weld's suck...they are globs, then too little and lots of porosity...working on it
2. the struggle was getting the 2 halves together - i wished i had thought of (or known about) inside dimensional spacers - then i could have clamped and life would have been easier - this is what i ended up doing - first, i noticed that my two halves did warp - they kind of pulled into the center and raised each corner a little - i used magnets to line up just one corner of the 4 - the other were all out of whack, but I ignored that - the one that was lined up was lined up correctly and i put a tack there - from there, I was able to use cross clamps on the corner and tack the seam - i used clamps for the two corners of the other seam
now back on to the internet to figure out why i've got all this porosity
thanks again!
1. two create the two halves, I used magnets - so similar to what you are suggesting - I started at the corners (but on the outsides) - my weld's suck...they are globs, then too little and lots of porosity...working on it
2. the struggle was getting the 2 halves together - i wished i had thought of (or known about) inside dimensional spacers - then i could have clamped and life would have been easier - this is what i ended up doing - first, i noticed that my two halves did warp - they kind of pulled into the center and raised each corner a little - i used magnets to line up just one corner of the 4 - the other were all out of whack, but I ignored that - the one that was lined up was lined up correctly and i put a tack there - from there, I was able to use cross clamps on the corner and tack the seam - i used clamps for the two corners of the other seam
now back on to the internet to figure out why i've got all this porosity
thanks again!