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kingsburgphil
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« on: February 02, 2010, 07:07:56 am »

This ones a first for me living here in rust free Calif.  Grin  My first thought is to chuck it up in a lathe and amputate
the fractured part of the drum.

Second thought is carefully heli-arc the piece back in place.....small problem, it's expanded slightly and really
does not want to fit back in place.

I would really like to hear from someone who has faced this problem before and successfully repaired it.




Of course I will have to suffer the comments of my fellow kibitzing magpies.......turnabout is fair play..I guess.

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« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2010, 08:47:15 am »

I like the way you casually throw in a pic of a Denzel badge, alongside a Rometsch badge...  Grin

As for the drum, I think you'll have to build it back up with weld and machine it down. The only (only???) problem might be the shrunk-in cast-iron liner. Maybe Doug B can offer some guidance?
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« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2010, 10:16:08 am »

I like the way you casually throw in a pic of a Denzel badge, alongside a Rometsch badge...  Grin

As for the drum, I think you'll have to build it back up with weld and machine it down. The only (only???) problem might be the shrunk-in cast-iron liner. Maybe Doug B can offer some guidance?

Thanks, nobody likes "boring" old pegboard. Especially when it's backing up a work bench that's best suited to replacing the cord on a toaster  Cheesy

Regarding the drum, what I didn't show was the badly corroded steel wire ring and its groove on the other side of the fractured "lip".
Welding it back in place would be a real challenge, as the aluminum is very thin at that point. And retaining or restoring the groove
would be almost impractical. I considered using an epoxy like devcon to reattach the lip, advantage being I could retain the wire ring
and it's groove on the inside. Disadvantage, it would look like I glued the lip back in place.

Needless to say I'm still open to suggestions.
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« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2010, 19:08:52 pm »

I would clamp it in place grind a small groove where the crack is about .060 deep weld a bead around it and then machine the weld and polish Or Take it over To Fat and have  them do it Grin
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« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2010, 19:54:12 pm »

use it as a dumbbell, you already have the knurled handle attached.!!! Grin
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