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Originally Posted by dads86
ok guys i guess the knuckle head i got my lil 70 roller frame with the creeper drive from banged a tree at one time, and i have a hairline crack in the grill frame, question is with these being cast iron and expensive to ship if i found one for sale somewhere.
was thinking i could sand blast down and use J.B.WELD, then sand that down so you could hardly see the repair after shes painted THOUGHTS ON THIS? unless someone has a extra good frame they wanna sell me  |
there are a lot of ways you can repair your grill frame if you have a mig welder you can V groove out your crack drill a small hole right at the end of the crack and then weld it with mild wire it will work fine.I had a welding engineer tell me this many years ago I have a blacksmiths forge I got for scrap because it had a crack over 2 feet long from freezing water, I ground out the crack and mig welded it it's now close to 10 years since I did it and I have had no problems with it.I have done a lot of cast iron repairs over the years and would not think that mig works but it does and it works well.I have repaired several broken exhaust manifolds by mig welding and none of those have failed either.