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I suppose you did see the suspension arms are tigged?
I just asked re: Chassis. Hope they respond.
Good Morning Jeffrey, We use bronze welding because it has very slight flex in it as you say. It also induces less localised heat in the tubes, increasing strength. Regards Henry Henry Siebert-Saunders
Quote from: Yummi on July 18, 2018, 01:53:22 PMI just asked re: Chassis. Hope they respond.And they did. Not a lot of detail, but some insight. QuoteGood Morning Jeffrey, We use bronze welding because it has very slight flex in it as you say.I have brazed a lot of things in my fabbing life and I would only use brazing on sheetmetal ,never in a structural application . Yes,I an agree that it allows a very small amount of flex but it is that flex that will allow the bronze or brass filler to fail much sooner than a weld. It also induces less localised heat in the tubes, increasing strength. Reading between the lines of that they are saying that less skilled welders are needed to assembly the frame. They are using thin wall tubing that can ,with a lesser skilled laborer,induce way too much heat into the weld creating a much larger HAZ(heat affected zone) that is not a good thing. Regards Henry Henry Siebert-Saunders
Good Morning Jeffrey, We use bronze welding because it has very slight flex in it as you say.I have brazed a lot of things in my fabbing life and I would only use brazing on sheetmetal ,never in a structural application . Yes,I an agree that it allows a very small amount of flex but it is that flex that will allow the bronze or brass filler to fail much sooner than a weld. It also induces less localised heat in the tubes, increasing strength. Reading between the lines of that they are saying that less skilled welders are needed to assembly the frame. They are using thin wall tubing that can ,with a lesser skilled laborer,induce way too much heat into the weld creating a much larger HAZ(heat affected zone) that is not a good thing. Regards Henry Henry Siebert-Saunders
onto the work bench and I can see where the suspension tops need to bejust need to copy over the engine mounting position in the same way and I can get rid of the old body shell I keep tripping over