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Post by Dennis on Nov 15, 2012 6:11:45 GMT -7
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Post by Cwi555 on Nov 15, 2012 15:38:16 GMT -7
I strongly advise against welding with batteries unless it is the absolute last resort to something you need to save your life. You would be better off putting back some supplies for thermite welding (TW). It's not hard to learn, and doesn't run the risk of blowing up on you.
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Post by swamprat1 on Nov 15, 2012 17:12:24 GMT -7
+1 on what CWI said. Welding with car batteries is risky business.
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Post by alex on Nov 15, 2012 19:30:00 GMT -7
McGuyver + a battery + a copper penny + jumper cables saved the world back in the mid 80's!!!!
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Post by offtrail on Nov 15, 2012 20:20:37 GMT -7
J B Weld...for what it is, does a good job. Everyone should have this in there home kit.
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Post by ncguy on Nov 16, 2012 5:47:35 GMT -7
J B Weld...for what it is, does a good job. Everyone should have this in there home kit. JBed up the wifes oil pan on her VW Jetta after she put a major crack in it from hitting a gas fill in a gas station parking lot. Everyone told me it would not hold cause of the heat cycles. It held for over a year and then we sold the car. I did not want to pull the engine to fix it so I gave JB a try.
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Post by Dennis on Nov 17, 2012 2:07:51 GMT -7
I strongly advise against welding with batteries unless it is the absolute last resort to something you need to save your life. You would be better off putting back some supplies for thermite welding (TW). It's not hard to learn, and doesn't run the risk of blowing up on you. Thank you for bringing that up. My intention was in a SHTF situation.
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Post by ColcordMama on Nov 17, 2012 2:11:40 GMT -7
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Charlie Allnut cover this in The African Queen? That was what he did, right?
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Post by wtrfwlr on Nov 17, 2012 5:15:33 GMT -7
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Charlie Allnut cover this in The African Queen? That was what he did, right? Yep, he welded a blade back onto the prop using heat from a campfire. I thought his name was Humphrey though!!! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by wtrfwlr on Nov 17, 2012 5:38:35 GMT -7
I have used J-B Weld for years and have successfully repaired all sorts of broken items from cracked water jackets in engine blocks to damaged radiators and yes many oil pans during my days driving and working on dirt track race cars. There are now many super epoxy products out there that make life so much easier. One thing I will say is that most epoxies will soften in high temperatures and I have not had much success in bonding parts that get much stress applied to them. Now when I was building and repairing aluminum monocoque chassis for prototype and formula cars we used a structural adhesive that would bond T-4 and T-6 aluminum so well that the aluminum would tear before the bond would.
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Post by USCGME2 on Nov 30, 2012 9:18:24 GMT -7
J B Weld...for what it is, does a good job. Everyone should have this in there home kit. OT, Good idea! Putting that on the shopping list. Yeah, something tells me to listen to CWI on this one. He just might know a little bit on this subject. ;D
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Post by pathwinder14 on Nov 30, 2012 9:24:34 GMT -7
J B Weld...for what it is, does a good job. Everyone should have this in there home kit. +1 Any self respecting handy man has J.|B. Weld, Duct tape and some plumber's GOOP in his tool box
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Post by geron on Nov 30, 2012 9:27:10 GMT -7
Here you go!!! ;D ;D Now, just set that up on one of thywar's fire drills
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Post by Cwi555 on Nov 30, 2012 12:05:46 GMT -7
That would be called friction stir welding geron.
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Post by kutkota on Nov 30, 2012 12:38:42 GMT -7
That is neat. Never have seen that before.
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