Small alum repair.

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Usually when i get alum jobs they are the ones everyone else in town passes up. This shop called me and said you will like this job. No problem for me. Its a screen door frame for a travel trailer. The round channel pulled out where the hinge was. So i cut some 3/8" alum bar and counterbored a bushing hole in one end. Then i modified some hardware store bushings on my lathe. Then beat the new tube/bar stock into the channel and tacked it with my spoolgun. The frame is only like 1/16" thick so i had to watch it didn't burn away. Tacks will hold it as its in the channel and really can't go anyplace...Bob Attached ImagesBob WrightSalem, Ohio  Birthplace of the Silver & Deming Drillhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/southbend10k/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sawking/1999 Miller MM185 w/ Miller 185 Spoolmate spoolgun
Reply:Excellent.
Reply:Excellent work! Is this like "Give it to Mikey, he'll eat anything"?Matt
Reply:Originally Posted by Matt_MaguireExcellent work! Is this like "Give it to Mikey, he'll eat anything"?Matt
Reply:Cool, thanks for posting up. Everytime I try some thin anodized aluminum repair for myself it's like 2 strikes, and a Saturday used up before it works (I'm hard headed and harder to train)!Matt
Reply:I think the reason it worked so good was the solid 3/8" barstock that i was welding to. But i did weld up the hinges and they were all 1/16" thick and i had no problems. After 35+ years of welding alum i am getting better  I still have my dads Westinghouse welder and spoolgun setup he bought in 1964. I can remember when i was a kid playing with all those 4" plastic spools. I must of had 200 of them. I am still using his wire he bought 30 some years ago...BobBob WrightSalem, Ohio  Birthplace of the Silver & Deming Drillhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/southbend10k/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sawking/1999 Miller MM185 w/ Miller 185 Spoolmate spoolgun