 Okay, I'm working on the roof of this boat This roof up here. I'm gonna start by making one of these I'm not sure exactly what the Does zigzags are gonna be but let me just start with a straight piece here and a curved piece up there And that's gonna be you know the pieces that go across I'll need five of those Let me just make one first and just off the top of my head I'm thinking if I if I take it. Oh, man. These pipes are not even 20 feet Well, I have I need to measure my pipes first Well, my first thought was if the pipes are 20 feet and I cut a 10 foot put piece here This is gonna have to be slightly longer and the leftover piece is gonna be 10 feet It's gonna be too short But if I made that one the length it was supposed to be This one will be slightly short, but it could just attach a little bit in and that would be fine But now I'm realizing I need to measure the actual distance of these These pipes This is what I'm gonna use These guys are fairly thick walled it's Two and a quarter millimeter or something like that. I think this is a bit strong enough. I Have to admit I did not do the actual calculation But my instinct says it'll be strong enough Whatever, let's go Okay, and if I if I just cut the piece The curved piece at 10 feet. It'll be slightly too short But that's not gonna matter because if I have to make the sheet metal overhang by like, you know that much It's totally not gonna matter first no one's gonna step on the edge and even if they did it's such a Small overhang it's not gonna bend anyway. So let me just cut this at 10 feet Well, I can cut it. Yeah, I can't cut in half because it's not 20 feet All right, cut it at 10 feet and then see if I can get it into the curve that I want it to be Okay, 10 feet You know, if I cut this at an angle I can get a little bit more length out of the pipe because I only need the top length here Then I can use the bottom there What is that? Useful and worth it actually I think it kind of is Because if this piece ends up being the the piece that goes across the bottom I'm gonna have to cut it at an angle to match up anyway So yeah, I can put the angle in here and the piece the curved piece along the top It'll be kind of nice if it has It's like cut in a little instead of just having this this flat 90 degree Monstrosity stuck on the end of it. All right. Let's cut them at an angle I'll have to pick some specific angle for all of them. All right. I made that 60 degree angle 30 there 60 there whatever Did the other end so they match the other pieces over there Whatever, you know what I just realized is that I only have eight foot long diamond plate, but I Have aluminum aluminum sheets right here That are the full length. I wouldn't need a seam in them at all It should be kind of nice Except they're not textured I think I want the texture, but whatever I can worry about that later I'm gonna have to pick between full sheets with no seams or Texture the diamond plate texture people are gonna be walking up there. Okay, whatever. Let's get this This thing bent into the right shape somehow. I don't know I bend this I Don't have a pipe bender. Well, I wouldn't be a pipe and there would be a ring roller I'd need a ring roller to get that kind of curve out of this thing I don't have one and I'm not gonna make one just for this. I Think I don't know. Let me see Let me see if I can just just kind of do it Do it by hand These things are strong like they flex a little easily, but It's got a bit of curve. All right Put some muscle into a jammer. I think my metal farming table may be the tool for the job I take this lay across those things maybe Nice whack with a hammer can get a bit of bit of curves and keep moving and walking All right after trying various tactics this Seems to be doing it fast. Not too bad Pretty close to what I'm looking for Took a bit of fine-tuning with my hammer However, I think I've got a good curve on this side I'm gonna draw it and then get the other side to match You know, this is dry. I'm gonna draw a dotted line Oh, that is a good match. I got it. All right, let's make sure that line nice and dark because that is what's gonna be My curve measure Oh, I better get a record of how far these are apart That got me the right curve basically pressing down to the floor 42 and a half 43 About 43 inches apart if you give me roughly the right curve All right, how do I touch this thing? All right circular saw. Oh look at that Beautiful That should be thin enough to get a couple rivets in there that'll hold well And then oh should I put something across here? I don't know Got a couple rivets in here and two down at the other end and now I'm gonna Put a bolt right there to help hold this a little better and The hole here is big enough that the screw can fit in easily on the bolt but up there I have smaller holes Tap them to give them threads so the bolt can screw right into up there because it would be Unpleasant to try to get a nut all the way up there Okay, I think that's pretty good So for this to rip out it's got to take out two rivets and the bolt and I can relieve some of the pressure in here somewhere too because I you know, it's Pressing on this a little bit. It is so solid rigid I'm not gonna have to need I'm not gonna have to have so many, you know zigzags up and down I'm thinking just like one over here and one over there and I'll put them at an angle like this So that when there's weight on the top It'll keep the top Pushed in toward the middle as opposed to pushing out Because the force that's gonna happen at the ends when weight is on top of here is that it's gonna push This down and push the ends out And that's that's the danger if these aren't strong enough this will get pushed out and the whole thing will flatten out blah blah blah So I pushed put supports this way angling this way to keep the force pressed back in Yeah Between those two things I think it'll be more than strong enough Well, I think that looks good I guess let me see if I can make five of these things I need to use the thicker sheets or put some more pieces across By the way, though, that's cool All right, I clamped that down in the corners. I Definitely could not stand on this I'd have to put a bunch more bracing under it or maybe have another one of these things down the middle Let me check The thicker pieces. This is the thinner of the two options I have let me check the thicker one Yeah, I won't take much to reinforce that Put a few pieces going across that way. Maybe I don't want to have to put another piece going that way Awesome That's five of those all within Acceptable tolerances they're all within like a millimeter of each other if you put one next to the other they they really don't Very much so those should be good So those are going to go one two three four five with full sheets of that diamond plate between them and I May want to put more like four more of these Down the center of each diamond plate Row, I think it's time to make dinner and I'm very pleased with these. Yeah, they look great. Oh, man. Look at this. Oh, yeah So nice Okay, so if my three reasonable choices for the top of this roof are Three millimeter thick diamond plate one and a half millimeter thick diamond plate. Oh, I think that's gonna be too thin and then This two millimeter thick Not diamond plates just flat sheet So this is the middle option. I just I just put it over three of these things So there's one on each end which is in the plan But then I put another one down the middle and I may end up doing that just putting you know Making four more of these things and putting them all down the middle And with this one now, obviously if I stand right down the middle It's supported by one of those curvy things with my step here It holds me but it's more flexi than I've wanted to be plus man the the diamond texture Really makes it better to walk on so I'm gonna eliminate that one And I think I'll throw the one and a half millimeter on there Just to rule it out, and I'm probably gonna go with the the three millimeter diamond plate All right, here's the one and a half millimeter diamond plate Yeah, I'm not even gonna bother Clevering it down. It's I don't want it to be that flexible Like I've kind of decided I want the roof to be like a real floor So people can get on and it's sturdy and strong and don't have to worry about it You know bending or whatever hey All right, I'm pretty sure All right The three millimeter will be good Clamp it down Pretty good. Yeah, it does still flex more than I want Like it's not that much better than the two millimeter Except for the the diamond texture is obviously way better so Maybe I do need to put supports going this way To won't have such big Areas where this can flex in Oh on a super positive note These things are supported at this end And then they only touch on the floor way down there. So There's nothing holding them up in the middle and those are supporting me no problem piece of cake Even without any zigzaggies through them so I can put Support there and at the end and it will span the entire 10 feet three meters And I can stand in the middle And there's gonna be anything heavier up here than me So, uh, you're gonna come help for what?