The Client: Conservation Solutions

Forging a new right arm for "Liberty" and restoring the hands of "Justice"

	During installation we will need to mount the flag pole. That comes out through the bottom of the flag  in this picture.   To speed the install and make a good strong joint to support the pole, I formed a full contact lap solder joint around the edge.  This will facilitate the on site work. The lap ends at a sharp break in the piece so a simple fill of solder and a file will hide the joint. The pole location can be found and drilled into the bottom of the plug on site and then the plug soldered onto the piece.
	At left beginning the time consuming task of a solder fit on a compound curve. The two parts are nested amd trimmed. Tap tap fit tap fit tap tap tap fit snip tap tap fit grind tap tap. . . . . . repeat . . . At right the finished parts.

		At far left is a photo of the socket as we started near left shows the rough formed edge of the socket..
	>	These twophotos show the fitup of the finshed parts.
The next part of assembling the piece requires forming the spacers that will fit between the arm and the flag in all the odd spots. This can take a quite a while  as the parts are convoluted and need to mate with several surfaces. They have to be made with the order of assembly in mind. In fact all the pieces need to consider that. As we come to final assembly there must be a plan, because it would be easy to "paint yourself into a corner" especially when you aren't quite sure where all the corners will be when you get to that point. To do this I make use of clamps and temporary fasteners so that I can build and fit all the parts in subcomponents, and then join them in an orderly fashion once I figure out where the most inaccessible corner is and start to work out from there.  .
The spacer is test fit into the spot between arm and flag.	Above: Vice grip c clamps were used to hold the pieces together during initial assembly as we needed to move things around to find the point where the parts mated and the lines faired best.  I then drill holes and put removable Cleco fasteners in place. These will enable me to take it apart and put it back together in exactly the same position.
	Next   we will make a missing flag part and fit it onto the piece.	>>ONWARD>>

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