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| Bodge of the week with Sodium Silicate |
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| awemawson:
--- Quote from: mexican jon on June 04, 2015, 06:15:01 PM --- --- Quote from: vtsteam on June 04, 2015, 04:58:11 PM ---Good one Andrew. Jubilee clips are what we call hose clamps I think? :scratch: --- End quote --- --- Quote from: shipto on June 04, 2015, 06:10:09 PM ---Jubilee clips are one of those brand names that has come to mean the item in this case hose clips as you say its a bit like we call vacuum cleaners Hoovers pretty much regardless of the company that makes them. BTW awemawson you can still get gun gum. --- End quote --- Bit like Adjustable spanner :scratch: You guys call them Crescent Wrenches --- End quote --- Perhaps I should buy a tin and have it on the shelf ready for the next distressed damsel that comes through the farm gate :lol: |
| wgw:
Spending to much money, wire is good enough for that job! Yes gun -gun is still sold but it is not the same as it was, more like gasket cement. A bit of heat resisting cloth, or scrap of fibre glass cloth , soaked in the silicate will make a good seal, once it's been hot. Did not know about the CO2 trick, thanks for that. |
| vtsteam:
--- Quote from: wgw on June 05, 2015, 06:54:38 AM ---Spending to much money, wire is good enough for that job! ...... Did not know about the CO2 trick, thanks for that. --- End quote --- Yes, that's the money saving option. :) The nice thing about the hose clamps vs twisting wire, they last, being stainless steel. are flat, so force the galvanized sheet metal flat to conform to the muffler shape, rather than creasing it when tightened, don't leak therefore, tighten easily and install very quickly without a lot of contortions trying to twist wire while lying upside down under the vehicle. Unortunately I was $4 the poorer as a result. :palm: |
| awemawson:
Which is why I doubled up Jubilee clips as Steve did to get ones long enough, although this was the pipe itself not the silencer - I don't think that she'd have managed the twisted wire in the cramped space. |
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