Nigelw Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Last weekend my good friend Paul tramped over so I could sort out his leaky timing chest on his 200Tdi Disco. Unfortunately one of us had a slip and we made a small puncture in one of the water tubes in the rad, Paul living in Germany and needing to be back Sunday night saw us rape Rusty of his radiator to get Paul mobile again, So in the mean time I went looking for a re-core for the rad, 210 euro to 280 euro for re-core of a 200Tdi radiator!!!! So I got busy and went from this Using some of these and this is the result Testing tomorrow on Rusty to see it is pressure tested to running temp and if it's good then it cost me 12 euro for 1.2mm ally brazing rods and a sniff of gas for the blowtorch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big.Mike Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 On the kitchen worktop, fantastic! Love the brazing, let us know if it holds up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landroversforever Posted November 3, 2012 Share Posted November 3, 2012 Nothing more satisfying than saving yourself money with your skills . I hope it works! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooby Jim Posted November 4, 2012 Share Posted November 4, 2012 That should do the job. I had an incident a few years ago with my Daihatsu Sportrak off road, and a twig broke through the rad core and I was on my own. Went through my glove box and I only had Holts GunGum/Firegum (I can't remember which), and I put a blob on and left it dry. This managed not only to hold the pressure, but held for best part of 2 years as I forgot about it, and it was only the core falling apart made me replace it so I remembered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigelw Posted November 5, 2012 Author Share Posted November 5, 2012 Well a 45 minute run up of the brazed radiator was long enough to get up to running temp and a little drive around the yard to show me how bad the suspension is in need of replacement saw the radiator leak free and the needle on the temp gauge never got quite to the half way mark so I am happy with that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevie D Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 Well a 45 minute run up of the brazed radiator was long enough to get up to running temp and a little drive around the yard to show me how bad the suspension is in need of replacement saw the radiator leak free and the needle on the temp gauge never got quite to the half way mark so I am happy with that Excellent! Out of interest did the rods have a multicored flux built in ? Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigelw Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 No they were very soft 1.2mm ally rods, flux was just ordinary solder flux I've had for repairing the burnt out wiring on Rusty. On mulling this over with a few other bods I was told I could have just cut the damaged tube and pinched the ends and folded them over and pinched flat again in an emergency, but not my style that..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoltan Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 We have recently used some HTS2000 ally brazing rods with which some amazing repair feats can be achieved with propane or oxy heat sources. Certainly gives the TIG a run for its money on some jobs http://www.aluminiumrods.co.uk/ The videos are impressive. I thought it was a bit snake oily until or rods arrived and we tried a few out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigelw Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 We have recently used some HTS2000 ally brazing rods with which some amazing repair feats can be achieved with propane or oxy heat sources. Certainly gives the TIG a run for its money on some jobs http://www.aluminiumrods.co.uk/ The videos are impressive. I thought it was a bit snake oily until or rods arrived and we tried a few out They are the same as an American brand called Allumalloy, and exactly the same thing I bought from Welco in my Specialist hardware store, they did just the job with the propane blow lamp. I am looking to learn gas welding shortly and to a profficient standard, I did a little practice TIG work when I had my small inverter, and the only thing I did not like was the sharpening of the tips from scratch starting, I had no tuition but managed ok for the small bits I did with it, but I will invest in a much more efficient and powerful inverter before I take it up again, after 4+ years without a mig set of my own I am almost starting from scratch with welding again, not so happy about that but it comes good in the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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