🔍 Key Concepts

• Shell plating and inner casing attachments in ship construction • Differences between retaining clips, fillet welds, and tack welds • When exam questions justify choosing “All of the above” in construction/rigging contexts

💭 Think About

• Think about the primary purpose of brick bolts, tile bolts, and pennant anchors: are they meant to be permanently structural, temporarily positioned, or just held in place before full welding? • Which method(s) listed are typically used to temporarily locate or lightly secure hardware to plating or casing before final securing? • If one of the listed methods is clearly not appropriate for attaching hardware to inner casing, what does that suggest about the option that says all methods are correct?

✅ Before You Answer

• For each method (retaining clips, fillet welds, tack welds), ask: Is this normally a temporary, light, or permanent structural attachment? • Consider how heat and weld size affect the surrounding inner casing—would you use a full fillet weld on all such small fittings? • Before picking “All of the above,” verify that every single method really makes technical sense for attaching these small fittings to inner casing.