Originally Posted by mattface
A guy came on a few months ago proudly showing pictures of just such a setup with blobby cold welds holding an old 5 speed freewheel.
We all pointed and laughed, then sobered up and said we hoped he didn't take out any innocent bystanders when he died on that thing.
Haven't heard from him in a while. I sure hope he didn't take out any innocent bystanders.
P.S. don't try to weld bike parts if you don't know how to weld. Cold welds are weaker than glue, and you can't weld dissimilar metals i.e. steel to aluminum. Stick with the epoxy, and learn to weld on something that won't hurt you if it falls apart.
yeah thats me, and i do in fact actually know how to weld, i just didn't bother cleaning up the welds because i doubted it would work anyways, it did for a while though.
Eventually though, i hit one rather large bump and the casette stripped the threads on my hub and i broke my axle in the process.
It is not a good idea to weld your casette, for mulitple reasons:
1. looks ugly for the most part, if you want a suicide hub then just do lots of locktite on a cog
2. with all the stress you are putting on the cassette because it is fixed, the chain tends to want to jump up a gear, and thats no good.
3. when it fails, it fails big time, and i was lucky enough to be out late at night when it broke and didn't hit anything or anyone.