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Offline Laverdaroo

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Re: Tank badges
« Reply #15 on: November 03, 2022, 10:03:37 AM »
Yeah, think so!
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Offline McCabe-Thiele (Ted)

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Re: Tank badges
« Reply #16 on: November 03, 2022, 10:26:26 AM »
Rodger dodger. Did you see Teds powder coated frame? That had the stress marks on the main frame member too.
Do you mean the marks just below the triangular section of the top crossbar when you refer to stress marks?
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Offline Sesman

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Re: Tank badges
« Reply #17 on: November 03, 2022, 11:25:01 AM »
That’s the ones. Very common characteristics I understand. I’ve seen them on my 500 and they are present on my 550.

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Re: Tank badges
« Reply #18 on: November 03, 2022, 11:26:03 AM »
It’s not bad thing, Ted. We were just curious as to how they occur during manufacturing.

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Re: Tank badges
« Reply #19 on: November 03, 2022, 11:57:36 AM »
From my knowledge with wing pressings on Vauxhalls in the 1970's they were quite a common thing.

A mate who worked for Lubrizol told me they eventually fixed the problem a decade or more later by using better lubricants & lubricant dispersal in the pressing machines to stop "dry rubbing" ripples forming during the pressing process. It became an issue with the changes in design to ever more complex shapes in fewer pieces.
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Offline Sesman

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Re: Tank badges
« Reply #20 on: November 03, 2022, 12:32:16 PM »
Interesting.

 

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