Welding on a Torque Tube
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Topic: Welding on a Torque Tube
Posted By: Bee
Subject: Welding on a Torque Tube
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2010 at 11:52am
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Looking to build up the pitted sections on a torque tube under the battery box. Can anyone recommend a good welding rod for cast iron? Wish they had mounted the battery under the tube.....  ------------- Bob, North Carolina 1949 B |
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Posted By: Burgie
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2010 at 12:07pm
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Nickel ------------- "Burgie" |
Posted By: Bee
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2010 at 12:08pm
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I'm seeing Lincoln 55ni
------------- Bob, North Carolina 1949 B |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2010 at 12:12pm
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I would think bondo, or lead would be the best choices. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: GregLawlerMinn
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2010 at 12:44pm
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I have used Bondo with good luck. Wire brush the area real good and smear it on in several layers. ------------- What this country needs is more unemployed politicians-and lawyers. Currently have: 1 D14 and a D15S2. With new owners: 2Bs,9CAs,1WD,2 D12s,5D14s,3D15S2s, 2D17SIVs,D17D,1D19D;1 Unstyled WC |
Posted By: Clay
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2010 at 1:04pm
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If you are going to use a paste grade filler material, blast cleaning is your best option. Use an angular abrasive such as Black Beauty. Blast to a near white 3 mi finish (blast standard SSPC10) Belzona 1111 (Super Metal) can be applied in one application. There are no solvents thus no shrinkage. This material is not subject to chipping compared to JB Weld or Bondo. The Super Metal will not corrode or rust. |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2010 at 1:31pm
| To get the weld to adequately adhere you would need to preheat the entire tube, to keep it from warping or twisting it will need to be reheated to red hot after the weld and allowed to slow quench, not really possible. The best alternative, bondo as suggested above or leave as is and paint it after wire brushing. Cast welding is an art that I after 30+ years of welding a lot, I have trouble with, it is more black smithing. |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2010 at 1:40pm
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If it were mine, I would go the Belzona route or use a primer filler and sand between layers.
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Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2010 at 12:05am
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I 2nd the sandblasting. All of the rust will be removed. You can then do the Belzona thing or maybe even braze up the deep pits. Once you have the sheetmetal on it, you're not going to be able to see the pitted areas. ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |
Posted By: olivershagnasty
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2010 at 8:52am
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I have a tube that is not pitted you can have. Just pick it up. but you can do a lot of bondoing by the time you drive here.
Shagnasty
NC
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Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2010 at 8:59am
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Clay, what a salesman you are!
Just a courious question, could Bee take something like a small barrel and cut/slot the ends out so torque tube would slide into barrel, then line the with plastic to get the ends to seal and fill it with the frankeinstine fluids and hook up the battery charger and clean the metal that way and then wash it off and grind it smooth or Belzona it and paint?
That torque tube was not really smooth to start with from the factory...
or Could just find another tube that isn't all ate up.
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Posted By: Bee
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2010 at 9:03am
Oliver, I sent you a private message. Thanks1 ------------- Bob, North Carolina 1949 B |
olivershagnasty wrote:Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2010 at 9:34am
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As it is cosmetic , I would not try to weld , only going to lead to problems. Something like the Pour 11 or surface rust covering products would be a good thing to try. ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |