Alloy Problem

[Rik398]

hey folks.

Had an accident on my bike a while back. Got everything sorted now just needed new footpegs and nosecone really. crash bungs saved the fairing. Got the nosecone of the internet and fitted myself, daytona 600 so i treted myself to the union jack design whereas before i had plain silver. looks really good.

Anyway, after the crash i gave it to the garage for an estimate of repairs and they missed out something failry important being the cockpit subframe. not sure if all bikes have these, but its a piece of metal coming off the front of the frame whcih holds the lights up...

anyways i will add a picture a little later on. It has snapped around the bolt eyelets. Which makes me think i have a variety of options. I was thinking i could glue the eyelet and then actually glue an extra washer over the eyelet to add a bit of rigidity. Or, i could buy a new one but they are about 160 quid so rather not, or i could weld it.

welding may be an issue becuase its aluminium.... anyone have any experiance?

I am thinking try the glue technique until i can get it welded by someone. What glue is best / is glueing even a valid option. cheers folks.

and what i mean by eyelet is the hole the bolt goes through. sort of cracked in half. dont know if eyelet is the right term but it makes sense in my head now hopefully yours aswell lol.

thanks

[Guest]

If its cast alloy .... no amount of fettling will put it right... but you could try 'supersteel'

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_165691

If its aluminium, then it can be welded, by a specialist.

[eastanglianbiker]

If its cast alloy .... no amount of fettling will put it right... but you could try 'supersteel'

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stor ... yId_165691

If its aluminium, then it can be welded, by a specialist.

if its not cast alloy any good engineering shop can tig weld it

[Guest]

could do with a pic, is the eyelet on a round bar? if so P-Clip or quiksteel a lug and drill it..

[Rik398]

cant do a pic at the mo everythiing seems to be breaking at the same time at the moment including the camera lol.

basically its a piece of alluminium, not sure what tipe, with holes drilled in it that bolts to the frame. the part where it has snapped is around these holes, so basically during the accident it has had an impact and the pre drilled holes in the alloy have got snaps along them, so they are not holes any more just half moon shapes. I still have both half moon shapes that would make up the hole, just they are not together any more

that is about the best description i can do. sorry about the lack of pictures

[Guest]

this any good...

230497534767 on eb*y

TRIUMPH DAYTONA FAIRING BRACKET,FITS CARB MODELS,750,900,1000 & 1200

£50 inc P&P

[Rik398]

friad not although thanks for the look.

actually managed to get a job where they would take me for just a couple of weeks before uni starts so i think i will use some of the cash from that for a new original part for the fairing bracket, and then use the change on some decals to cover the crack in the side fairing that i streigtend out which looks fine now just a hairline crack so red bull sticker over that i think... lol

[Rik398]

hey folks

basically got majourly under paid so despute is kicking off there lol.

anyway going back to fixing it. i can post a pic tommorow as the gf is coming round and has a fairly decent camera on her phone unlike me lol.

so not sure if i can do that clip thing yet

anyway i was looking on the net and found a welding rod thing called durafix.

anyone know of this stuff and where i can get hold of it? trying to avoid purchase on the net due to lack of card but will do if i can't get it from a general shop.

cheers