"dirigible designer" wrote in message
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: I'm making an eight-foot study model of a personal lifting body
: dirigible design of mine. I believe the ribs will be made of
: fiberglass and widely-spaced for lightness. I want the skin to be
: aluminum sheet.
: It would be desirable to avoid installing a rib for every seam
: between sheets of aluminum. So, I would like some advice on what is
: the state of the art with infallible glue joints between hard aluminum
: sheets.
: I imagine there is no alternative to crimping the meeting edges as
: is done when sewing two sheets of cloth together.
: No way am I interested in rivets.
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Stir weld it...