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Old 06-18-13, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by unterhausen
that looks good if you are going to attempt a patch.
i believe I am.

What do you think about me cutting out the dented portion and brazed in a new section? Like a 3" section?

i'm thinking that would be stronger than patch.
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Old 06-18-13, 04:14 PM
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If it's butted tubing, I would just gusset it and be done. If it's not butted tubing, a sleeve would work fine. Given the damage, I assume the tubing is fairly thin, which would suggest a diamond shaped patch with ~1/4-3/8" of overlap around the edges
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Old 06-18-13, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by unterhausen
If it's butted tubing, I would just gusset it and be done. If it's not butted tubing, a sleeve would work fine. Given the damage, I assume the tubing is fairly thin, which would suggest a diamond shaped patch with ~1/4-3/8" of overlap around the edges

Gotcha. Thanks, I'll purchase the alloy today and post again once I finish. It is butted. I'm not rally sure what that is but I know it is because of a manufacture's sticker on the frame.
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Old 07-06-13, 05:23 PM
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Alrighty, don't call me stupid, but something ain't right. I fluxed the crap out of it and it didn't want to work with me. I don't get it.
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Old 07-07-13, 01:54 AM
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What did you use for flux? And what is the brick on to of the hole?
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Old 07-23-13, 12:37 PM
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Still trying to figure put the photo uploading on the forum. But this is the end result.
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Old 07-23-13, 12:43 PM
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Geez. Let me try again, and put them in order.
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JBone78- What filler did you use? Has a silver look in your photos, not the best choice (if this is silver) to fill large areas with a puddle. The brazing looks to be not well done, maybe a bit cold. The fluxed area didn't extend very far beyond the dent. Doesn't look like much heat extended beyond the dent also. Not sure what the "brick' is in the earlier post. A plug attempt? If so then the plug looks to be FAR too thick for the thin wall section it's on top of. Trying to match the heat sucking nature/wall/thermal mass of a plug (or lug/socket for that matter) to the tubes that join it is a good thing. Andy.
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Originally Posted by Andrew R Stewart
JBone78- What filler did you use? Has a silver look in your photos, not the best choice (if this is silver) to fill large areas with a puddle. The brazing looks to be not well done, maybe a bit cold. The fluxed area didn't extend very far beyond the dent. Doesn't look like much heat extended beyond the dent also. Not sure what the "brick' is in the earlier post. A plug attempt? If so then the plug looks to be FAR too thick for the thin wall section it's on top of. Trying to match the heat sucking nature/wall/thermal mass of a plug (or lug/socket for that matter) to the tubes that join it is a good thing. Andy.
Well, this was my second attempt at this. The first was with the "brick". Next try I filled the gap with a vertical piece of metal and used a grinder to level. Then blazed that into place. I really wasn't trying to fill the dent. But I got close. My objective is strength. The hole is not very noticeable to anyone that looks at it. I'm good with that. I did my best.
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That cleaned up nice!
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Originally Posted by randomgear
That cleaned up nice!
Thanks!!!
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