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Here is kevin's 40ulh case. he sent it to me to check out all of the pits and the shear ugliness of this thing. I started grinding to get down to the original parent metal. There was also a nasty crack inside the case that needed to be addressed
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the more I ground the more junk I found in the case. I decided to just cut off all of the old weld and start from scratch. Look at all of the dirt and grease in this mount I was shocked. it must have been welded in the bike a hundred years ago or something. This repair would have failed.
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HEre is what I had to grind out and cut off. I just kept cutting and grinding till there weren
't any pits. This is a pretty serious repair.
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Here is the same case with all of the welding almost finished. Lots of pre and post heating went on between the last picture and this one. man o man. I laid the rib and mount in extra thick so I can sculpt the metal into looking just like an original case. the next step is to cut the bottom mount, drill the hole and start grinding shaping and texuring. what a bunch of fun. I love making something out of nothing.
You my friend are my HERO
ReplyDeleteI'm amazed at what you do - Fantastic!!!
ReplyDeleteDid you wear your welding helmet?
ReplyDeleteThis inspires me. I have a couple of pretty nasty Detroit Henderson engines to raise from the dead. One has a fragmented transmission case and the other is warped and has a couple of crude patches where rods poked out. I think it was raced. Thanks, Paul
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