Re: Repairing cracked castings

"John" <johnmanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Have you considered brazing it? The lower temperature and better
> workability make it a much easier repair. No guarantees though.

Thanks for all the advice so far, a few more details might help:
It supports the read bearing of the alternator via 3 'legs' of which the two
thinnest are cracked right through, so no need to stop the crack running
with a hole 8-(.
What's left isn't strong enough, in my guestimation, to be left as is.
I don't have gas welding gear, though I have done it in the past so realise
what a specialised job cast iron is, I only have stick and MIG. Even if I
did I wouldn't dream of trying it myself.
I don't have brazing gear anything like big enough for this, and no oven to
pre-heat it.
I'm quite prepared to hand it to a specialist, in fact I'm very reluctant to
try anything for myself because if this part is lost the only hope of
salvaging the set in it's original form is to find someone with a
replacement, not easy would be my guess. Unfortunately I'm in a backwater
near Filey so specialists are few and far between, I'm really hoping to
discover what type of specialist I'm looking for, welding, brazing, powder
spraying etc.

Greg


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