Last minute Recovery points...

[long stroke]

Dad decided to knock up some recovery points during the week for the county









CHEERS TIM.

[clean32]

Dad decided to knock up some recovery points during the week for the county









CHEERS TIM.

Cool but you should not have glued around the frount, just down the sides

[HangOver]

im not a welder but they look good to me its a good solution to recovery points, or lack of them.
just hope those bolts are HT?

[long stroke]

Cool but you should not have glued around the frount, just down the sides

Glue
No glue used

TIM.

[long stroke]

im not a welder but they look good to me its a good solution to recovery points, or lack of them.
just hope those bolts are HT?

Yep the bolts are HT 8.8 12mm at the front and 10 at the back
They would have to be better than the previouse tie down points.

CHEERS TIM.

[jimbo110]

Glue
No glue used

TIM.

It's a highly technical term used in welding.

Other terms used are:


Zapp, nuke, fizz, melt, stick, and when it's a big job, chernobyl

[clean32]

They look good, I am just suggesting that next time it may be better not to weld all the way around. You run the risk of a bit of undercut and the heat put into the rod may harden it a bit. The result is if you are pulling a bit off dead center the rod may wish to bend, work harden quicker then snap just in front of the last weld.
Maybe if on the rod even if one horizontal weld was 10mm back from RMS and the other side of the rod was 5mm back

[long stroke]

It's a highly technical term used in welding.

Other terms used are:


Zapp, nuke, fizz, melt, stick, and when it's a big job, chernobyl

Yeah, you can tell i'm real technical

[long stroke]

They look good, I am just suggesting that next time it may be better not to weld all the way around. You run the risk of a bit of undercut and the heat put into the rod may harden it a bit. The result is if you are pulling a bit off dead center the rod may wish to bend, work harden quicker then snap just in front of the last weld.
Maybe if on the rod even if one horizontal weld was 10mm back from RMS and the other side of the rod was 5mm back

Righto we'll keep that advice in mind
We tested them at Levuka yesterday, they didn't budge
They will only be on there for another couple of weeks anyway, so they probably won't get used during that time

CHEERS TIM.

[foz.in.oz]

They look good, I am just suggesting that next time it may be better not to weld all the way around. You run the risk of a bit of undercut and the heat put into the rod may harden it a bit. The result is if you are pulling a bit off dead center the rod may wish to bend, work harden quicker then snap just in front of the last weld.
Maybe if on the rod even if one horizontal weld was 10mm back from RMS and the other side of the rod was 5mm back

It is also advisable to use stich weld instead of a single full length bead. If you do get a crack in the weld, the break beteween stitches prevents the crack propogating all the way along the part and therefore can be the difference between yippee and bugger.