Any Metal experts here

not the music but the stuff bikes , or parts of them, are made from.

Need to have a chat with someone who knows about metal and it's , dam
can't think of the word.

Will you E Mail me please so I can have a chat.

Thanks

 

metallurgical properties? What do you want to know - I know pretty
much everything.

post to the group, expect replies to the group.

 

OK but it was going to involve a lot of big pictures. I will upload them
to photobucket and report back

 

While cleaning the bike yesterday I noticed the studs and nuts holding the
pipes onto the barrels where a tad 'rusty' The bike is 5 year old and
nothing else on it is rusty or corroded like these.

I'm of half a mind, although some here would say I don't even have that
half, that the metal used in the studs/nuts is not correct and will need
sorting ASAP.

Here are some not to good but large pictures, please have a gander and
tell me what you think.

Thanks

http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y136/BorgCymru/Triumph/Rust/

 

"They all do that sir....."

 

"Exhaust header fasteners"

They're mild steel, they're subject to great heating and cooling,
they're exposed to all the crap coming off the front wheel. They all
corrode just like that unless you replace them with something like
stainless steel.

Oh, you're Borg, you morphing ****. That explains a lot. You don't
share DNA with Robbo, do you?

 

I'd call that normal. Exhaust manifold studs and nuts all do it as
far as my experience goes (but I'm not an expert).

 

You succinct fucker.

 

Yep thought S/S was the way to go, getting the buggers out will be a
sphincter clentching moment then, shares in WD40

Not in the last 6 months.

 

ewww.

And I mean, really, ewww.

 

Now that's what I call a result.

 

oh, come on, don't tell me the thought of Robbo and Borg fucking
doesn't make you feel queasy...

 

Calm down, you'll be wanting pictures next

 

Oh come on he's done worse things

 

I didn't think that projectile vomiting counted as feeling queasy.

Phil

 

Vass wrote

The cylinder head with exhaust pipes attached? In a bucket? They won't
fit. There should be, in the bathroom, a big tub-like receptacle near
the chunder box.
It's called a bath, useful for soaking larger components or assemblies.

After hitting them with a hammer.

Providing there's money left over from buying sticky plasters and
soothing ointment for crushed fingers.

 

I think ewe is more appropriate ..... ;-)

 

<Doffs cap>

 

No, but only because I don't know what Borg looks like. So far my
mental image has only confirmed that I don't want to watch star trek
anytime soon.

 

You do?