Looking for a pic - corner roof weld with a spiral

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Sam_Fear

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Bkvail is working on his roof and I was trying to describe how someone on here pinched the corner of his roof with pie cuts and put spiral cuts at the end to keep it from making a sharp corner/point. One of the builds has a pic of it.

Anyone know?
 
thank you very much for the pics...... now I probably need to find some of those clamps if we end up doing that!
 
guess I'm dense or just can't see it.....

Sam_Fear said:
Thanks fellas! Those pics should help him out.
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what is the difference of that method than simply splitting it straight up (either one or multiple cuts) and then filling it and welding...??? Not sure I understand that curve cut.....[S On his, won't he have to undo some of what he's done already to take that approach? Like I said, maybe i'm just not seeing it.....
 
sgtpontiac said:
what is the difference of that method than simply splitting it straight up (either one or multiple cuts) and then filling it and welding...??? Not sure I understand that curve cut.....[S On his, won't he have to undo some of what he's done already to take that approach? Like I said, maybe i'm just not seeing it.....
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The idea is to spread out the end of the cut - though it's more welding, it can be easier to iron out. Problem with a simple slice on a curved surface is that you tend to get a point at the end of the cut after welding and it may need more shrinking and hammer/dolly work to bring it down.
 
Yep, I can see that....

just seemed to be more work to me....but never did it so can't comment on that.....Thank ZZ..
 

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