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<blockquote data-quote="wld50" data-source="post: 11693" data-attributes="member: 502"><p><strong>Possibly expensive blobs on carpet</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Got it!</p><p></p><p>I found this fifteen year old link by someone who had obviously tried Lumiweld with limited success.</p><p></p><p> [FONT=&quot]<a href="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/%7Epattle/nacc/arc0151.htm" target="_blank">http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pattle/nacc/arc0151.htm</a>[/FONT]</p><p></p><p> [FONT=&quot]"This year's Vincent Club 'Riders Rally' was to be held quite near to my home and even by my lethargic standards it was time to fix the problem and put it back on the road in order to attend. With nothing much to lose I decided to attack the bits with 'Lumiweld' the low temperature aluminium welding stick which is widely advertised (and copied). I don't know what alloys cyclemotor carbs are made of, but it looks more aluminium based than the bigger Amals whose zinc-based material can be welded by Lumiweld experts but turn rapidly into blobs-on-the-carpet for the rest of us. I had one successful job behind me - look at the ally hinge on xxx next time you see it, repaired in desperation when it cracked in half some years ago - it isn't a flush and invisible joint but it has held. Smaller jobs are actually harder, and differences in section between the parts to join also make life harder as they do with all forms of welding, because the lighter item melts before the heavier one gets hot. [/FONT]"</p><p></p><p></p><p>wld '50</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wld50, post: 11693, member: 502"] [b]Possibly expensive blobs on carpet[/b] Got it! I found this fifteen year old link by someone who had obviously tried Lumiweld with limited success. [FONT="][URL="http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/%7Epattle/nacc/arc0151.htm"]http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~pattle/nacc/arc0151.htm[/URL][/FONT] [FONT="]"This year's Vincent Club 'Riders Rally' was to be held quite near to my home and even by my lethargic standards it was time to fix the problem and put it back on the road in order to attend. With nothing much to lose I decided to attack the bits with 'Lumiweld' the low temperature aluminium welding stick which is widely advertised (and copied). I don't know what alloys cyclemotor carbs are made of, but it looks more aluminium based than the bigger Amals whose zinc-based material can be welded by Lumiweld experts but turn rapidly into blobs-on-the-carpet for the rest of us. I had one successful job behind me - look at the ally hinge on xxx next time you see it, repaired in desperation when it cracked in half some years ago - it isn't a flush and invisible joint but it has held. Smaller jobs are actually harder, and differences in section between the parts to join also make life harder as they do with all forms of welding, because the lighter item melts before the heavier one gets hot. [/FONT]" wld '50 [/QUOTE]
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