Old pain. New pain. I never thought I would find myself doing this again
but I guess road salt will have its wicked way.

It you don't know what I've been doing from the pictures you are too young
to be amused.

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/377278041

These wing nuts have become downright feckin expensive, like 20+ each
expensive. And in the end I discover the 2:1 headers won't fit unless I
remove the oil cooler. AFAIK fitting a standard oil filter cover plate
would achive it but I've never tried??

I don't know whether to persevere or just get stainless headers. The OE's
are rotted and the rest is all Kehin. It looks pretty good without a
silencer on the left and it would make rear wheel removal a breeze. Though
mating up a nice 38mm reverse cone Meg might require some pipe bending.

--
Hog

In article <rIadndwPMP4frnHWnZ2dnUVZ8j-(E-Mail Removed)>, DaveBenj
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>
>"Hog" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:hs71d9$h4m$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>> I don't know whether to persevere or just get stainless headers. The
>>OE's are rotted and the rest is all Kehin. It looks pretty good
>>without a silencer on the left and it would make rear wheel removal a
>>breeze. Though mating up a nice 38mm reverse cone Meg might require
>>some pipe bending.
>
>Google for "dairy fittings" then find someone who is handy with a TIG
>welder...

What a good idea!

I've tried SS MIG welding at home (in Argon) - can weld it, but the
welds aren't rust-free. A TIG specialist would do in seconds what takes
me ages of messing about (for a mediocre result).
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On Fri, 14 May 2010 10:50:58 +0100, SpamTrapSeeSig
<no-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I've tried SS MIG welding at home (in Argon) - can weld it, but the
>welds aren't rust-free.

You can get stainless wire, you know. I've MIG welded the collector
box on one bike and there's no sign of corrosion after a couple of
years of all-weather use..

--
-Pip

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, Pip Luscher
<(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>On Fri, 14 May 2010 10:50:58 +0100, SpamTrapSeeSig
><no-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>I've tried SS MIG welding at home (in Argon) - can weld it, but the
>>welds aren't rust-free.
>
>You can get stainless wire, you know.

Oh heck, do you mean I shouldn't have been using string?

>I've MIG welded the collector
>box on one bike and there's no sign of corrosion after a couple of
>years of all-weather use.

Lucky you. My last SS welds, although they looked fine to start off
with, have rusted. I don't know why. I have some more to do soon (the
R80's LH silencer) so I'll have another go and see what happens.
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember SpamTrapSeeSig
<no-(E-Mail Removed)> saying something like:

>Lucky you. My last SS welds, although they looked fine to start off
>with, have rusted. I don't know why. I have some more to do soon (the
>R80's LH silencer) so I'll have another go and see what happens.

I came across mention of this recently - there's a grade of SS wire that
rusts when welded with - clever, eh?

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember SpamTrapSeeSig
> <no-(E-Mail Removed)> saying something like:
>
>> Lucky you. My last SS welds, although they looked fine to start off
>> with, have rusted. I don't know why. I have some more to do soon (the
>> R80's LH silencer) so I'll have another go and see what happens.
>
> I came across mention of this recently - there's a grade of SS wire that
> rusts when welded with - clever, eh?

It's for indoor use.

Prolly for 17-chrome

--
Rusty

On Sun, 16 May 2010 17:38:13 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
<(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:
> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember SpamTrapSeeSig
><no-(E-Mail Removed)> saying something like:

>>Lucky you. My last SS welds, although they looked fine to start off
>>with, have rusted. I don't know why. I have some more to do soon (the
>>R80's LH silencer) so I'll have another go and see what happens.

> I came across mention of this recently - there's a grade of SS wire that
> rusts when welded with - clever, eh?

Even worse (from when I was doing magnetic spectroscopy work) some
grades of SS become magnetic when welded.

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