Cracked Tubing

re: Cracked Tubing

If you know a good welder it can be welded back. The best way is to put a patch over the broken spot and weld all the way around the patch. A good welder will know how to fix it..........

re: Cracked Tubing

yikes! if it was a horse, i'd shoot it...

re: Cracked Tubing

You could sleeve it with two halfs of similar od tubing wrapped and welded in place around the porblem area, personaly i would cut the whole tube out and weld in a new one.

Best of luck getting it sorted anyway...

KiM

Re: Cracked Tubeing

Mopedamauter79 said:

Can this be welded or any sort of macgyver trick I can do to strengthen the frame again ?

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A macgyver trick you could try on your seat tube. Remove your seat and seatpost, now find another seatpost or piece of tube the same thickness. Slip this down inside your downtube so that it will sit above and below the crack then drill a couple of holes above and below the crack, then you can slip in a couple of nuts n'bolts to hold it. Make sure the tube you insert still leaves enough room to slide your seatpost back in. As to your Downtube?

Other wise do as Kim/Aussiejester suggested and cut out the bad and have new pieces welded in.

Pay a visit to your local dump/recycle center, you sould be able to pick up an old bike that you can cut out the pieces that you need.

Regards
Tom