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- From: rrusk@ssd.csd.harris.com (Bob Rusk)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: J B Weld?
- Message-ID: <RRUSK.92Jul29110248@rcx1.ssd.csd.harris.com>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 16:02:48 GMT
- References: <1992Jul29.135414.24644@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Sender: news@grouper.mkt.csd.harris.com (Network News)
- Reply-To: rrusk@ssd.csd.harris.com
- Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division
- Lines: 32
- In-Reply-To: ward@m.cs.uiuc.edu's message of 29 Jul 92 13:54:14 GMT
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- On 29 Jul 92 13:54:14 GMT, ward@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Christ Ward) wrote:
-
- >Yesterday I fixed my bicycles headset with this J B Weld stuff.
- >It seems to have worked (I won't know for a long time if it really worked).
- >I'm wandering if anybody out there has used this stuff as they claim it can
- >be used...i.e. to fix tractor axles, the inside of an engine, or any of their
- >increadible claims. I used it because AFOM swears by the strange goo.
-
- I have used JB Weld and Marine Tex (very similar, a little thicker, better
- for vertical surfaces) to hold 80-100 PSI on an oil gallery of a diesel engine,
- and know people who have used them to patch cracked water jackets on marinized
- Chevy and Ford V-8's that have frozen over the winter. While not exactly
- the first choice for a cost-no-object repair, it's a wonderful get-me-by.
-
- >Also, what is it? Is it just a epoxy or what (comes in two tubes: hardner and
- >steel). I mean they claim it can be drilled, tapped, machined and so forth...
- >hard to believe, but, my friend says he's use it for many of these aplications.
-
- I understand it to be an epoxy containing metal fibers (aluminum?), but this
- may be heresay. It can indeed be drilled and machined like metal.
-
- >So let me know what you know about J B Weld (if it's as good as they say it is,
- >it would be a good addition to any tool kit).
-
- It's a wonderful addition to a toolkit. I like Marine Tex better, though.
- Get it at a marine supply house.
-
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