repairing a broken aluminum casting

Nice repair, Don.

Harold

Good job, Don. Sure beats duct tape and JBWeld . Must be nice to have a TIG.... Ken.

Thats usually how a prop is built up just keep laying down a bead on a bead till its got sufficient material to reshape.

Must be somnething about all these fishermen out there. I have a good friend who just bought a big bucks bass boat and top of the line trolling motor setup, and he too came to me with a broken mount and those words that it broke but he was not saying much at all how it broke.......especialy since it was only in the water an hour or too tops when it decided to break.....I wonder if those manufacturers are using a water soluable alloy that causes these defects? ;-)

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Nice job Don. I just repaired the lower section of a '64 Evinrude outboard. I think they call it the stabilizer fin. It's that part just above the prop. The front round part was broke and so was one of the sides. I added new pieces, but I used a mig welder with an aluminum spool. After adding a few weld beads I dressed the weld with a grinder. Took a bit to weld to the thin cast aluminum. I figured if I screwed it up I wouldn't loose anything. Wish I'd taken pictures of the before and the after.

Nice job! One more reason that I just have to have a TIG :-) Could this be done with OA or MIG? Bob

Nicely done, I'll remember that technique.

John

Yeah, Don. I wanna come up to your place and work for free! Pleeze. Pleeze. Huh? Can I? Can I?