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« Reply #3210 on: June 08, 2011, 12:19:58 AM » |
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« Reply #3211 on: June 08, 2011, 12:21:38 AM » |
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Mister Lunatic also cut out some rust damage from the windscreen surround & welded in some fresh steel. One small job to cross off our list.  |
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« Reply #3212 on: June 08, 2011, 12:23:38 AM » |
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i know its ,classed, asa ,bodge, but you can get away with welding stainless with mild steel mig wire . the welds arnt quite as ,clean,,
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« Reply #3213 on: June 08, 2011, 12:26:49 AM » |
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Yeah, but the mild steel welds would rust & we're not painting the pipes. We had a very small reel of stainless wire, but it wouldn't fit Loony's welder, so I had to go & borrow mine back from PD, who's using it to build my XS650 Yam project!
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« Reply #3214 on: June 08, 2011, 12:36:35 AM » |
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how much its likelely to rust depends on how much ,,welding gap,, and how much mild steel wire you use I.E. the wire speed etc,,
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« Reply #3215 on: June 08, 2011, 12:39:40 AM » |
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True Mike, but we had the stainless wire to hand, so only sensible to use it.  |
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« Reply #3216 on: June 08, 2011, 08:11:39 PM » |
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« Reply #3217 on: June 08, 2011, 08:34:44 PM » |
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If you've got stainless use it,you shouldn't even use sanding or grinding discs that have previously been used on mild steel for stainless as the stainless picks up tiny bits of the mild and you can end up with spots of rust on an otherwise nice shiny part.Even grinding mild over stainless can cause contamination
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« Reply #3218 on: June 08, 2011, 09:43:26 PM » |
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ive got a 15kilo roll of stainless wire, cost nowt. big bro wrote it off at work |
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« Reply #3219 on: June 08, 2011, 09:59:16 PM » |
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A tiny 0.75 kilo reel cost me over 20 quid -about 30 Aussie dollars Ben.  |
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« Reply #3220 on: June 09, 2011, 10:00:25 AM » |
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« Reply #3221 on: June 09, 2011, 10:23:25 AM » |
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i should start a new thread, ive been scroungin again. air compressor this time, needs work,
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« Reply #3222 on: June 09, 2011, 09:00:14 PM » |
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 Dropped in to see Doug the engineer, of the Guzzlers car club after work today. He's machined the aluminium blanking plugs for the exhaust headers. These will be held with a bolt into a captive nut mounted in the end of the pipes. The idea is that we can remove them to create free flowing open headers, should we ever feel like racing the beast. I suspect they'll only really come off when we feel like being a bit rorty at shows, but we like 'em. I'm wondering whether the edges should be radiused?
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« Reply #3223 on: June 10, 2011, 07:09:18 AM » |
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No need for radius on Goods SVA Andy.
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« Reply #3224 on: June 10, 2011, 08:31:29 AM » |
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would look good with corners chamfered/softened
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