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  1. #1
    Join Date
    Oct 2011
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    Newstead Victoria
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    Default OMG its Cracked.

    Many years ago i attended an auction at P/N Maryborough. [now Suttons]
    It was an unbelievable sale.In all my years i have never seen stuff sold so abhorrently.
    Under instructions from the new owners beautiful machinery walked out the door at lower than scrap value.The scrap metal dealers had a field day.Saw one semi trailer load all 30 plus tons leave there direct for Simms metal.Cost at hammer drop 250 dollars.
    My save was a C,incinatti t/c grinder, a Churchill Cylindrical Grinder 5 tons. and a Tos cylindrical grinder ,plus a few pallet load of sundries.Cost wise I leave that entirely to your imagination.
    On a pallet buried under all the heavy stuff was a camel back straight edge [ sob sob] sadly cracked and with its wooden protector.It is cracked in two places in the one plane and for some years now have contemplated its future.
    being such is a precision item,can it be repaired and re scraped back to its form
    Thought about the cold repair metal locking welding or just using it as a talking piece weeping as we speak is nearly 4 ft long and a crying shame.
    Any ideas gents would be appreciated John. ps talking with the N z reps sent there to oversee they were devastated and never has been a follow up sale still heaps there in the rear of factory under cover.

  2. #2
    Join Date
    May 2010
    Location
    Lower Lakes SA
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    58
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    Can we see pics of the cracks? If you consider it stuffed as is, there's nothing to lose by - erm - having a crack. Some may say weld it, but if it were mine I would be thinking of engineering adhesives in the actual cracks, together with maybe some bolted plating, sandwich style. Scraping it in is straightforward, assuming you have a master big enough. The proof of the repair would be in how it then prints, with handling and time.

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