[ARC5] Repair Aluminum - BC-696-A Possibility? And TCS

[John Hutchins]

J, All -
Any on try Dixie Sticks  to fill the hole?
Anyone Can Repair Aluminum and Cast Quickly and Easily with HTS-2000 
Brazing Rods:
http://www.aluminumrepair.com/index.asp

-Hutch


On 4/27/2010 9:16 PM, Mike Hanz wrote:
> Sad, but unfortunately all too common.  It is particularly distressing
> when it occurs in a bare aluminum set.  There is simply no way of
> recovering from the holes, except with a front panel transplant, and
> that requires re-riveting a new panel to the front of the transmitter.
> For an exceptional artifact, it's perhaps worth it, but not generally
> for the bare aluminum 274Ns - there were simply too many of them.  Keep
> it for a century and the situation may change... :-)
>
> On 4/27/2010 7:12 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>    
>> Well, I have the insulators from parts donor units, but the 4 extra
>> mounting holes have destroyed a near museum piece.
>>
>>      
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