Making our Water Tight Doors - Building Brupeg EP. 55 

nice work again 👍 I'm thinking tho, would it not be better to have the dog a bit longer and fit into a slot in the frame rather than a welded on tab that you could catch on .. sticky out bits are not good in rough weather 🤕

If you like, you can weld a nut into the back of the handles and you can join them with a strap so they both open and close together. Also, bend the corner of the dog up a bit to allow it to 'cam' shut...

Oval holes for, or smaller diameter hinge bolts would allow the dual hinge effect allowing door to close as is!

I know it's too late now, but all you would have to do is cut the hinges off the wall and add a 1/4" 5mm distance from the wall to the hinge pivot. Move the bolt pins out a 1/4" further from the wall surface. Put door in place and block it in place the measure the distance from the wall to the center of the hinge pin and make the wall hinge this dimension when you drill the hole. Harder to describe than do. The best way is to make the hinge a bolt on u shape so you can add or subtract shims to get the correct compression of the gasket. Just offering a suggestion.

I LOVE THE START TO FINISH PROJECTS , YA GET TO SEE REALLY HOW THINGS GET MADE , AND GLAD TO SEE JESSIE GETTING HER HANDS DIRTY AGAIN

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Nicely done your ingenuity always is amazing, that said Brupeg is an amazing boat I always look forward to your video's

Brilliant solution to your water tight doors! Thanks for sharing!

nice intro to remember last week; great light /color in the tent ...super video style

Awesome Work, also one of best edited episodes so far (IMO) moved at a great pace !!

0:01: I've actually done this job, save it was an SS companionway door with "cat flap". Hell of a great find to get such a close fit. 1:58 I recommend "Delrin" inserts for the dogs (as well as the grease, which is a bonus). Delrin is non-conductive HDPE and is slippery. My rudder is aluminum and is separated/isolated from the boat's steel with rings of it. 17:03: Very nice work. My hatch to my engine bay is alloy and two little bronze dogs handle the tie-down duties. The best part are the gas lifts I put in...keeps the hatch open by itself! For the engine room door, you may wish to put a sturdy tab so it can open fully and latch for when you want ventilation in there under way and no one's down there. Great work, guys.

Absolutely brilliant, my dears, as usual 😊 😀 👍 👍 👍 Just loved the shot of the dog looking down through the hatch to see the 'dogs' that you'd made😀😁😁 All love, and best wishes to you all, Claire and the girls, Berlin 😘 😘 😘 ✌ 👍

Nicely done! Thanks for the videos.

hi good to see it getting there. cant wait to see it on the water.

Great work, it amazes me how you keep the motivation to keep going, it's going to be a great boat!

Aarff, aarff.....woof! Sorry couldn't resist!

Damien, Jess, Ryan, Very good work on the door handles. They look great. I would recommend that you put nylatron washers between the door sleeve and the nylon nut and between latch and the door sleeve. This will eliminate the steel on aluminum friction and make the handles rotate easier. Jess, thank you for pointing out the puns. I almost missed them. Glad you handled it for me.

Keep going guys

He's got it sussed, ay. Good to let that Kiwi flow through you :)

Another benefit beyond saving money is that you'll know exactly how to fix the door handles out at sea, should one somehow get damaged.

That handle should have been chamfered all around for the weld. It will let you down if really twisted.

Those bolts are absolutely "pivotal" to the dog project. Another pun for you. 30 years manufacturing door hinges. Couldn't resist. 😬

nice work :-) All the best From Denmark

Great video I would cut the knife edge off the frame a little bit or slot the hinges so instead of the hole being round it’s oval gives u a bit of movement we use slotted hinges when we have a thick gasket looking good tho

hey do you know there is a company making thick grinding wheels for angle grinders, it allows you to remove so much more metal than flap discs that wear too fast, the company is named norton, the product is named Norzon III, i think this is called a cup wheel. it also allows to clean welds in 90° corners.

Should be able to buy stainless tie rod Basically stainless rod with thread the whole way along Then you can cut it to length as required Usually cheaper as well Or if you can find some solid bar Cut the same D one side then drill and tap for a smaller bolt to hold it together

Guys please put a guard on that grinder, especially with a cut off discs, if that shatters it makes a huge mess of a human......

Hey have thought to have the handle up when open so that it doesn't vibrate open when motoring.

'Suggest you bend the first 1cm* of the tip of the dog 5mm* (*as needed*) back into the freezer room to provide a "lead-in" to assist with latching and compressing the rubber seal (hope that makes sense) :-)

27:35 dogo funny look

Should the handle not be vertical when locked rather than horizontal, so vibration will not tend to unlock it ? IE tab and handle at 90 degrees to each other

That's a door handle!!

You should cut it flat on the bolt head. Only one solder

On your door gaskets, where the rubber ends meet, did you angle the cut so one end lays over the other or did you just straight cut and butt them together?

You should teach Jess how to weld. Then you could sit back and relax 😂😂

Awesome work guys, love the videos. Is it possible to have a slot on the door frame rather than a tag. Just to stop getting caught up on it as you pass through the door. Cheers from NZ.

Have you considered hot dip galvanizing mild steel parts rather than stainless to save money? Is that a cost effective option where you are and I would like to hear from anyone with experience with how galvanizing holds up at sea? Also, there are many stainless bolts and pipe fittings and such available on Amazon directly from China and shipping can be hit or miss here in the states, but that may be an option worth checking out to avoid being robbed locally.

Gday dam i was just thinking is there another way into that engine room (just in case ) something happens to them handles and you are locked out

As always great work. Who is that singing in the first part of the video, she has been on many of your videos. I got it going around in my head, I really like it

Great episode - love the door project and the detail. Did I miss where the music you use is shared? If not, could you post what the artists are?

All of your works and video reminds me of the days I was working for Radio Holland,, those days I was called out mostly Friday, Saturdays for the electronic repairs of the trawlers or what not, or installing new stuff, remember doing the first Furuno radar (in 1977 or so, had my first rides on such trawlers; Some footage how that was going in Holland , Sheveningen; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nXz4iyFUys0.html Love to see Brupeg one day sailing away,

hi ya, your all doing a fab job with your boat. silly thing to ask but why not just pack the hinges out 5mm rather then cutting the lip around the door. if you youtube SV/SEEKER they have done there doors as well. keep up the good work.

Damien, WHY do you have a Cheetoh behind yer ear? LOL!

Are you leaving that stair way to the accommodation or putting in a spiral stair way once the accommodation has been fitted out?

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Just don't get sea water on those, or they'll be.... Salty dogs.

love what you're doing, hate your muzak.

I'm sure you've thought about another solution and have a good reason not to pursue it...but instead of retrimming the door with thinner rubber, why can't you move the holes for the door hinge pins 6mm away from the bulkhead? Then there's no stuffing around with the glue and removing it, no trimming the flange, just weld up the hinge and redrill 6mm further away.

What is the height and width of door , i need to make some doors for jigsaw