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Digger buckets
Hiya,
I just wanted to share the bucket I made. Am enjoying working with aluminium. |
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WOW Great job with the aluminium, did you weld that together ?
Keep up the great work ! Greg |
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Re: Digger buckets
Hiya,
Thank you. I do aluminium bonding now. The grading bucket was brazed with durafix. The unfinished one is going to be a heavy duty bucket. I making them for a new friend who is lending me his digger so I can install and make a thumb for him. |
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Fabulous fab work Bekah.
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Very nice & clean work.
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Bucket looks very good.
What is durafix? Where did you obtain it? Is is similar to J B weld? Ken |
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Durafix is a brazing material with a flux imbedded.
Doesn't need a lot of heat and is very strong. You can find it on YouTube. Just needs good prep of material. |
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Nice work on your buckets.
I checked out the Durafix product, that stuff looks amazing. Is it as easy to use as they say? Where do you buy from?
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Hey Becky How's things going... The bucket looks great, But I would not expect less from you.
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I've used the Durafix aluminum brazing product on my International PH350 truck frame and found it works just as in the video. My frame is much heavier than the soda can shown, so it does take longer to heat up. As long as the base material is just at the melting temp of the rod, it works great. I had to braze areas about 7" long, so had to keep the heat ahead of the brazing area, but worked fine. Caution: if brazing small or thin parts, it is easy to overheat and melt the base material - about 715F degrees for the rod, about 1050F degrees for the base. I liquified two small rollers before learning, but am a convert. Excellent product and very strong. Got mine at Tractor Supply.
Ken
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That's a nice bucket, for sure. Durafix sounds interesting. Might have to check that out. It's nice when you can assemble something like this without screws and tapping small holes. It just looks more realistic and scale when you can weld or bond metal together.
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Well that's me back from Oman and into the shed.
Got these made, not completely finished but 3 nearly there. |
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Lookin good!
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They sell a version of Durafix at Harbor Freight as well. I think it is called something different, but it is the same stuff. Works great, but as was mentioned above Cleanliness is the key.
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Just another update.
Grading bucket to which I added a front lip. A trench bucket which is pretty much finished just some tweaks. |
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Very nice!
Kerst |
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Just some more.
Here are two of the buckets finished These two are getting there but the skeleton buckets is tedious. Am enjoying it though. |
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excellent work Rebekah! I am impressed about the way you weld the alu. Is durafix not hard to use on such small objects? When you are welding the second side of the bucket, is the first side not coming apart while the bucket is being heated again? how do you hold the sides into position?
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