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Default Cracked cast iron frame

On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 21:50:28 -0500, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

Gunner Asch fired this volley in
:

And the next time you break it..it will bust someplace else and you
just repeat the process around and around until you are welding the
bolts together..at which point Id go to 6011 for the bolt welds.


Nobody's even mentioned the grease that's sneaked into that crack while
it was growing. Probably damned-near the whole width of it is full of
grease.

Good brazing flux? Ehh... probably not...


I'd hope he'd have stripped and degreased the living hell out of the
thing before heating to braze, don'tcha know?


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