18-03-2022, 11:28 AM
A common method of fixing this is to silver solder some threaded stud (3/8) ? onto a 1" square of thin brass sheet. This is then soft doldered to the bottom of the radiator in place of the broken stud, obviously having prepared and tinned the area; this effectively reseals the radiator and provides a fixing mount.
I didn't think my silver solder skills were up to this task, so asked a model engineer friend to do it for me. He came up with an even better idea: Turning down a length of 1" brass bar to the required thread size, threading it and leaving a thin 1" circular base to soft solder to the radiator. (See photo) Unfortunately I haven't got round to fitting it yet, so cannot vouch for its effectiveness/longeivity.
Ian
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I didn't think my silver solder skills were up to this task, so asked a model engineer friend to do it for me. He came up with an even better idea: Turning down a length of 1" brass bar to the required thread size, threading it and leaving a thin 1" circular base to soft solder to the radiator. (See photo) Unfortunately I haven't got round to fitting it yet, so cannot vouch for its effectiveness/longeivity.
Ian
radrepair.jpg (Size: 124.63 KB / Downloads: 382)