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I've had shops drop over 2000 dollars worth of labor because they were having such a difficult time with my car they didn't feel it was right to charge me for them not being able to figure it out quicker.

@@kasuraga lucky

@@popanollie1 not luck. Just a highly respectable shop that tries their best to do what's right for their customers. Their labor rate is a little on the high side compared to some shops in the area, but the quality of their work and customer service speaks volumes imo.

"Like"wise

You just described government procurement to a tee. Penny smart (or so they think), pound foolish

@@surfingcavachon Only thanks to right wing screeching imbeciles barking government is too expensive. Sane part of political scene wants the job done well first time...

Well...as someone who works in an American foundry, I can tell you both things are exactly the same

How is that even possible? I'm guessing it must've been sand-casted parts since I don't think you can get contamination into die-cast parts due to the nature of the operation. I'm guessing they re-used their green sand so much that it started contaminating the parts.

@@surfingcavachon/videos The real fools were the ones who owned the factory, got a government contract, and still cut corners to the point where people complained. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Its also smart legally. You don't want to get sued for a repair that failed and caused a loss of oil situation at highway speeds. Even if the owner of the bike understood the issues of the repairs and was willing to take the risk, his surviving family members might not respect his wishes especially when every greedy lawyer in the area will be whispering in their ear that the welder was a greedy crook who deserves to get sued. People make the mistake of thinking that every plaintiff in frivolous lawsuits is the problem but its more often the case that they're just being misled by attorneys who trick them into thinking that everyone else is evil and greedy but themselves.

Exactly!👏

I think that in your case the customer had invested so much of their own time in trying to source a replacement part that your weld repair felt like a gift that finally solved his problem. I think that we can all relate to those sort of searches for that one special widget that we need for something and the relief that we feel on finding either the widget or a close cousin of it.

Thanks for being so considerate. I think thats what his customer should have done too or at least pay half of it. Then again not everybody has the money for it, as a student i have taken people up on similar offers simply because i couldnt afford it. It feels bad but not much i could do about it :S

Ford Engine tstat or something else ?

@@markfryer9880 definitely, one i needed to search an engine it was pain. They just welded similar one in order for mw to use

As someone who tried to become a graphic artist, this reminds me how artists can think their art is total crap, whilst most other people will compliment it.

The problem mocks you, trying to get into your head, under your skin, don't let it. Walk away if you need to, think about it, and come at the problem with a clear head and renewed patience. Or at least, this is how I like to think about it.

@@jordanl.8509 you know the psychology behind that is probably the same reason you get Anxiety because your brain realizes your socially awkward or can’t do something so it just keeps telling you there’s a problem in till you fix it and become truly confident to do something

@@austen9556 y'know, I've pondered this for a while now, and I... Can't find how this is relevant to the joke I made? Could you explain?

Excellent advice, but what if you work for a boss who is pushing you to get the job done? I hate when I get a job that gives me trouble, and not having the luxury of taking 5 minutes to step back.

Yes indeed, trying too hard is a real thing, most of us don't know when to take a break, walk away for a bit, recompose, make a cuppa joe, just stop. Smoke a doob then go back at it.

@jeffreylynch3203 thanks for posting this. I found it very interesting. I think I have experienced working with one of these exact parts that you speak of. It was a tail housing to a transfer case on a Chevy. Another welder had tried before me on the smaller of the cracks, and told the customer it was not weldable. I figured that they just didn’t adequately clean out the cracks since the tail housing piece has multiple webs and some of the sections can be quite thick. I decided to run some pre-heat and did a light wash pass over one of the cracks to see just how bad it was, and the reaction I got was unlike any type of hydrocarbon contamination in aluminum that I had dealt with before. I then tried baking the piece, after thoroughly degreasing it. Sometimes if there’s some stubborn oil stuck in the crack, and you can’t completely get it all out, at least baking the part seems to render the hydrocarbon much less volatile when welding over it. This time however baking it made no difference. I started to think that perhaps there was particles of anodizing or somethings going on here that I didn’t realize, and so I decided to lay in multiple small beads just like the poster of this video did. I intended to float out the contamination, remove the welds, re-groove and re-weld. Unlike the poster of this video however, I discovered it not through advance thought, but more of trial and error followed by more error and then a little luck. Once I kind of got this to work, I clamped the flange end of the housing hard onto my thickest steel welding table and proceeded to build up the external areas approximate 3/8 of an inch and weld out the stress riser areas that was causing this tail housing to crack in the first place. As you can imagine with so much weld going into a cast aluminum piece like this I was doubtful of the piece lasting and not re-cracking once it had some stress applied to it. I told the customer to take the piece for free and if it was still holding in a year to drop off some money for whatever he thought that it was worth. A few months later the customer came by and paid me double what I quoted him originally to do the part. As far as I know, the part is still holding, but boy did it ever try my patience!

Its also the issue of die-casting in general having porosity issues to the point where there's TSBs that talk about patching leaking cases(that aren't leaking from gaskets or seals) with epoxy or some other sealer. Also, the surface finish for die-cast is also affected by the temperature of the dies so some that looked like they had the surface finish of a frosted window were made early on in the runs before the dies heated up. Die casting is great in terms of efficiency, speed, and cost but its terrible when it comes to repairs since porosity means that every part is imperfect to a degree. Maybe this will improve when we put factories in outer space.

Just wanted to say I tell students to watch your videos. They are good.

Try inconel, or Sandvik... they look horrible while welding 😄

Repairing motorcycle cases from the 60's and 70's really sucks....they are saturated with oil and loaded with zinc and who knows what else.

@@mikerieck306 that zinc is the killer

@@cr500_conversions zinc MUST be removed indeed

Hi William. Where are you based in the UK?

@@JamesB_JamesB South Yorkshire mate

Great! I have family in the UK in Morley

Best wishes. Good luck.

Hey, William. I’m in the US, but I’m always curious how welders charge for labor as I do some welding on the side. Got anything to offer in that regard?

Always good to share what we know with others knowledge is power 😄

Welding die-cast parts is like trying to open a factory in a 3rd world country: you may get lucky but most of the time its more trouble than its worth.

@@justanotherdarnell/videos The issue is die-cast parts. Sand casted and lost-foam parts, from what I understand, don't tend to have the same issues. The problem with die-cast stuff is that its full of pores to a degree. Also the parts might not have the release spray completely removed or it might be slightly embedded in the metal. There's a reason why die-casting hasn't replaced all other alternatives.

Been there delt with that before many times cleaning acid does help but has to be done more then once

I'm also a hobby welder. I sometimes have to repair cracks on my trailer (it's 25 years old), and I've found it nearly impossible to get a clean weld on a crack after it's had a chance to rust (if you don't notice it right away). Laying on extra beads, even adding more steel to reinforce it, may not look pretty, but it sure beats having the weld fail later.

Functionality always wins, YES sir!

I would argue strongly against this. Going to the gym is easy. Lifting heavy things is fun. But people don't usually do it because they just don't want to because it doesn't appeal to them.

Nah mate, I'm easy and people aren't exactly queueing up.

Easy sucks. I don't know why almost everybody wants it so easy.

@@notablediscomfort no one asked

@@NoSaysJo why you focusing on me

It was from a Suzuki, so you better believe it was the lowest quality part out of any vehicle manufacturer on the face of this planet.

@@SergeantExtreme ever heard of Lada ?

@@kevinkevinski5101 At least Lada has the excuse of being Soviet owned. Suzuki is a Japanese company, and as such is held to much higher standards (think Honda/Toyota/Subaru).

Every 'bad weld' video I've ever seen still put my own attempts to shame.

Looked good, lots of “dimes” in it!

The look of the bead has almost nothing to do with the strenght of the joint, especially on aluminum: you don't have to trust my words; you can cheack a video about this on welding tips and trick, where they illustrate that most of the instagram looking beads are not full penetrated beads

@The Truth of the Matter Absolutely!

@The Truth of the Matter Given that the part is soaked with hydrocarbons, would slowly heating the part up in an oven like environment cause the hydrocarbons to in effect sweat out of the metal?

OXY , ACETYLENE IS THE ANSWER

@@markfryer9880 Was about to ask the same question, it seems pretty obvious to bake the part, but maybe that can cause other problems.

@@Decayrate-of-Ravn-Rike my guess would be severe warping, its not designed for the heat of an oven

Give it a try! You can’t mess it up! Worse case, you grind it back out 😂👊

If it doesn't need to be super strong, just hold oil, braze it.

At what point do you just make a mold and recast the part? 😂

@@MarcosElMalo2 👍

*cries in 1984 E30 325e*

Yup 🍻😎. Lake Havasu ☀️ AZ

Add some video man so people can learn. I still can't understand how to setup this frequency, arc balance, start/end etc etc. What I always do was adjusted all that bit by bit till I feel it has a good puddle. Of course it's a time wasting but I haven't found a good teacher.

@@zuhalfast3388 that is the best way to learn what the welder does is by wwlding and adjusting to see what it does on the weld

@@tke7mu0u absolutely right man, nobody can give a chart to see amps, you should learn by yourself by trying and wonder wich is the correct amperage for you are going to weld.... You are doung great Zuhal

just don't buy Suzuki. buy Honda and live stress free

@@lordjaashin I second this^

@Quirin M. not talking about trucks. Motorcycles

@@lordjaashin buying a Honda 4 wheeler is like buying a flipflop for a hike

@@plasmaty As someone who looks forward to being a former Polaris employee, I can say without a doubt that I'd rather buy a new Honda than a new Sportsman.

The cheap home gamer pressure washers often use some kind of horrible pot metal for the pump housings, not surprised you had issues.

@@ferrumignis , really, not sure I'd really call it aluminum. Just enough to make the zinc hard.

That's not the issue, aluminum soaks up alot of stuff (water, oils, paints) unlike steel which is more of a coat. That's not even including that the cast itself might be bad quality or a mix by the OEM. GM for example has started including iron powder in it's aluminum castings to lengthen mold life

@@jonathangarzon2798 i know pretty well since I work daily with castings: obviously balance won't do anything about oil, paint and other foreign substances contained in the casting itself, but surely will help with the alumina. My point, in a repair like this, is that it's a totally non sense to use a torch/parameters setup that you'd use on thin/small clean sheet metal parts. This kind of job is easier and better done if you just set your wave to syn instead of rectangular, if you use an oversized green pure tungsten with a ball tip and bump up as much as possible the balance, oh and also lower down a bit those hz; if the part is trash you defently don't want a crispy arc, but a softer one. Penetration is not a problem in these kind of parts, wich is pretty easy to achieve. You'll probably have to run some beads, grind them and rerun more beads to clean the matierial, but you'll do it in a easier, faster and more confortable way. Also, welding aluminum not free handing, linked to a support for your arms like he does, looks a bit rookie to me, but that's probably the difference between someone who weld 12 hours per day and someone like him, who don't only weld all the day everyday for living.

And sometimes that's gonna be more inefficient if the weld area needs a very big container to fill the acetone