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What are peoples thoughts on 'QUICK STEEL"
bajachris88 - July 19th, 2006 at 09:22 PM

details on packaging:

"Sets in 4 mins... 260Degrees heat resistant... Steel - Reinforced Epoxy Putty, Dries steel-hard in 15 mins, bonds like epoxy, hardens like steel, permanent repairs to all metals, glass, pvc, plastic, ceramics, wood and more, can be drilled, tapped, filed, machined, sanded and painted."

ANy good fellas?


kombibob - July 19th, 2006 at 09:28 PM

what do you want to use it for?


helbus - July 19th, 2006 at 09:28 PM

Any good?

Sounds very good.

Won't work on panel steel or rust if that is what you are thinking.


bajachris88 - July 19th, 2006 at 09:29 PM

filling holes, and sticking sheets of metal together.


bajachris88 - July 19th, 2006 at 09:32 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Helbus
Any good?

Sounds very good.

Won't work on panel steel or rust if that is what you are thinking.


crud :( ...


crazyfiggi - July 20th, 2006 at 09:40 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by bajachris88
filling holes, and sticking sheets of metal together.


Thats what welders are for!
Alex.


68AutoBug - July 20th, 2006 at 09:49 PM

Its OK to fill non rusted holes in inlet manifolds to make them look better when they are painted......

sets very quickly....

Two part body filler will fill most holes or dents....
I've had great success with it many years ago....

Lee


kombibob - July 20th, 2006 at 09:54 PM

i must admit it saved me once after my 1600 cracked and dropped a welsh plug 600 km from home
i patched it up with the stuff and drove that motor for another couple of years.


bajachris88 - July 20th, 2006 at 10:05 PM

:o!!!

so its good at filling, but not at its adhesive properties of putting 2 sheets of metal together? lOl

I can't afford a welder, thinking of doing some classic Brazing instead :D, with an LPG torch, apparently its slow but certainly doable.


kombibob - July 20th, 2006 at 10:09 PM

what do you need to put together?


bajachris88 - July 20th, 2006 at 10:13 PM

Just sheet metal under the wheel wheels and A pillars.
they aren't completely rooted, still a little bit to support... Dont' care whether it looks pretty or not.


kombibob - July 20th, 2006 at 10:19 PM

i suggest you get the car up and running then take it to some one and get it welded up.
if you don't care if it looks pretty it won't take long or cost much.


bajachris88 - July 20th, 2006 at 10:25 PM

yeah, am trying to get it going, i think htat might be the go bob.


shaihulud - July 25th, 2006 at 12:41 PM

I used that sort of "liguid metal" stuff to bond a hot water pipe to the side of a twin carb manifold on an EH Holden so that it would run in a cold Melbourne winter. It worked well. I doubt if it's what you want.

I suggest that you gas weld with steel rods rather than brazing as you will get a better amd stronger job. Brazing is in effect glued to the steel, steel becomes part of it.

Don't be miserable. You have a need for a good MIG welder so get one. You will use it for ever.


squizy - July 25th, 2006 at 12:49 PM

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Originally posted by shaihulud
Don't be miserable. You have a need for a good MIG welder so get one. You will use it for ever.


Here here. Don't take shortcuts - pay someone to do it properly or do it properly yourself. If you take shortcuts it will come back and bite you twice as hard later on.


bajachris88 - July 25th, 2006 at 12:53 PM

Yeah, i htink its gonna be the go, EVERYTHING is heading that way. was talking with little bro... if had a welder, i could help build him a go kart, and was thinking, with the spare engines i got, i could make an ammature rail buggy and slap one in. would be hell fun! AND I could replace the rusted floor in dad's box trailer, fix up my rust, and start using metal rather than wood, bog and glue.


bajachris88 - July 25th, 2006 at 12:54 PM

:lol: I'm in denial, destiny is pushing me for a welder! :lol:


bugeyedbabe - July 25th, 2006 at 03:21 PM

go grab urself a welder, or find a friend who has one. And try to grab the best one u can afford.

If u do the job right the first time, then u dont have to keep coming back to it again and again.


helbus - July 25th, 2006 at 06:22 PM

There would be nothing worse than doing a bad job, having it all turn to crud and then two years later having twice as much rust and a car that is cracking apart etc... A real throw away job. We are only trying to warn you for your own interest.


kombikim - July 25th, 2006 at 11:52 PM

I have used quick steel, at first with much dubiousity, but was amazed at just how good it is, among things I can think of are crack in plastic baseplate of flymo mower badly cracked plastic outer tub in our $1800 Maytag washing machine (was told unrepairable), fitting a vacuum takeoff into inlet manifild on the beetle, fixed porous inlet manifold on Humber & a few other things I cant remember, always keep it in the car on trips, but would not use it to "glue" sheet metel together or anything my life depended on, the little tubes go a long way too!


helbus - July 25th, 2006 at 11:58 PM

I have seen it used to repair a broken piece of auto gearbox housing where the trans fluid pipe screws into. Basically the box was fine except the fitting leaked real bad due to a section of the flange on the case broken off. It worked. Not under any stress though, more a fluid pressure thing.