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Stainless steel ducting fan diverter blade
We were commissioned by the super yacht Lady Sandals for a new reverse engineered stainless steel air conditioning fan diverter from the original old rusted one!
Fan diverter in 316 marine grade stainless steel for Lady Sandals
The whole ducting fan was reverse engineered from the original rusted one taken from the super yacht Lady Sandals. The parts were designed then cut, formed and fabricated from marine grade stainless steel sheet.
Super yacht Lady Sandals in dock on a pontoon at Saxon Wharf Southampton
This is the original rusted diverter blade taken out of the super yacht Lady Sandals.
We took our dimensions of the original and reconstructed it in 3d cad as pictured above and then produced our workshop data and flat patterns from the 3d cad model, one of the workshop drawings can be seen below.
We cut all the parts with our waterjet cutting machine, then formed the various shapes in the 316 marine grade stainless steel on our hand roller machine and cnc press brake machine.
After the initial frame was fabricated from 316 marine grade sheet metal the fins were tacked in place as shown in the picture above and then we used a jig we designed made from waterjet cut plywood to set the final positions of the fan blades, this can bee seen below. All the joints were Tig welded.
In the picture above you can see the new finished fan blade assembly next to the original rusted one it was reverse engineered from and they are exactly the same apart from one major improvement which is that the new one is made from 316 grade and marine grade stainless steel, so it should have a very long life with no rusting again.
The engineering crew of the Lady Sandals super yacht installed the new air conditioning fan diverter blade with ease as it fit perfectly into the existing mounting points.
The super yacht Lady Sandals moored up at a dock in the Saxon wharf marina that Safire works from.
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