Deckplates: Regulating & Setting

Shows the setting, fairing, regulating and fitting of the deck plates of a ship. Animation shows how plates are placed in strakes outboard from the center line and the location of each strake of plates with exact reference to the center or buttock line marked on the ship and on the plate. Shows how deck plates are drawn into position for welding using steamboat jacks, ratchet and angle bar clips, and bolts; the purpose of the root opening; the use of liner wedges, dogs and flat bar fairing strips to provide flush joints for welding and the use of the strongback to strengthen a plate bent during welding.