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Frame welding

Discussion in 'General' started by cha0s#242, Jul 6, 2018.

  1. cha0s#242

    cha0s#242 Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand

    I know, right ? :crackup:
     
  2. sdg

    sdg *

    unobtainium.ca

    This guy does nice work...
     
  3. fastfreddie

    fastfreddie Midnight Oil Garage

    Nice that you can laugh at that poke...it looked painful. :D
     
  4. cha0s#242

    cha0s#242 Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand

    Dude, when you race vintage, you need a sense of humor. I mean, for the money I invested in this bike, I could have bought a nice slightly used modern Italian V4 that would be much much faster and (kinda more) reliable. :D
     
  5. Newsshooter

    Newsshooter Well-Known Member

    I know a guy, he could weld it and straighten it too. But he's in Calif, http://gpframeandwheel.com/index.html
    He probably has the correct numbers for the frame too since there were more than a few racing them in the AFM.
     
  6. KrooklynSV

    KrooklynSV Usual Suspect

    Last edited: Jul 6, 2018
  7. Only one on here that I’d trust to weld it is Britt, sure there may be others as well. Call Framecrafters, I’d bet they can take care of it if it’s something worth fixing.
     
  8. He may have taken his off some sweet jumps though :)
     
  9. Mot Okstef

    Mot Okstef Scrolling all day long on RRW.com

    Awww WTF does Britt know about welding? He's just some long haired hippie that lives in a ChickenHouse on some Ball Ground in N. Georgia. :crackup:

    I shit you not. I was on a plane trip back from Pittsburgh after opening day for the Pirates and the dude sitting next to me (can't remember his name as it was first class and the cocktails were free flowing) but he mentioned Matt Lynn and I mentioned racing with him in WERA and Britt and he told me he was on his way to visit them shortly. Talk about a small world. The look of shock on his face was priceless when I mentioned Ball Ground and Britt's welding prowess. :cool:
     
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  10. pfhenry

    pfhenry Well-Known Member

  11. cha0s#242

    cha0s#242 Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand

    Thread update, here is the result of the welding :

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  12. Banditracer

    Banditracer Dogs - because people suck

    I got no pic.
     
  13. KrooklynSV

    KrooklynSV Usual Suspect

    Me neither. He's got to make the Google Photos album shareable.
     
  14. cha0s#242

    cha0s#242 Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand

  15. KrooklynSV

    KrooklynSV Usual Suspect

  16. cha0s#242

    cha0s#242 Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand

    Thanks. I think the welds look good, but what do I know. Guy that did them worked for Rothmans Honda in the day, I am told. I'll try to find out his name.
     
  17. surfingsk8r

    surfingsk8r Well-Known Member

    I’m no expert welder by any means especially with aluminum, but to me it looks like the metal was not cleaned enough. If I were you I would run that by someone who inspects weld integrity or at least a qualified welder like Britt.
     
  18. cha0s#242

    cha0s#242 Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand

    Hence this thread.
     
  19. Thistle

    Thistle Well-Known Member

    :stupid:What he said.

    I've been in this industry for 25 years - there's something going on with these marks around the sloping section at the top. I thought they were chipping hammer dings at first but there's no slag on aluminum welds - arc strikes? It also looks like he welded over the crack as opposed to excavating it. I'm basing that off the assumption that that is the 'factory weld' on the left, I couldn't see the need for a multi-pass weld on that type of joint. But that's just my opinion...
     
  20. Britt

    Britt Well-Known Member

    IMO, it is too late for 2nd guessing...kind of like getting a tatoo.
    Unless you have photos of the prep work, you don't know much except what you see...
     

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