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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:48 pm
JB Weld is right up there with WD-40, silicone, vulcanizing tape, heat shrink, stainless steel and vice grips. These are some of my favourite things.
Does JB Weld conduct electricity?
Charles wrote:
Can't speak about JB weld for replacing threads, but I once used it for
what I was told was an impossible radiator repair (can't fix it, you
need a new one), and it worked beautifully.
I had a radiator on a 1984 Ford Bronco II (junker - but then weren't
they all junk?) that sprung a leak on one of the tubes from the top tank
to the bottom tank. At the time I didn't have the money to buy a radiator.
I pushed the fins out of the way with pliers, and cleaned the area up
with a wire brush first, then fine sandpaper. I also "squeezed" the
offending leaky tube together with the pliers.
Then I mixed up a wad of the JB, and just did a "temporary" patch with
it; wrapping it around the front side leaky tube, on the outside of the
tube. Picture putting a wad of bubble gum on one side of a flattened
toilet paper tube, at the crease, about an inch top to bottom, and maybe
a quarter inch around the edge. When I showed it to a mechanic, he said
it should never have held.......
What was leaking a steady stream (i.e. a kid's toy squirt gun size
stream or slightly larger) dried up completely, once the JB hardened.
I never did change the radiator. I sold the vehicle, patched radiator
and all, about a year later.
FWIW.
Chuck F.
NE PA
Blake Sobiloff wrote:
--------------------------------- 8:00? 8:25? 8:40? Find a flick in no time with theYahoo! Search movie showtime shortcut. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]> For better or for worse, I haven't had the pleasure of working with > JB Weld so I don't have first-hand experience with how well it'd do.