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Pot metal grille repair?

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mkirsch

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I bought a neat little 240 Utility over the weekend.

The pot metal hood grille (upper section) has a couple of spots where the previous owner got a little close to something. It's just pushed in slightly and cracked.

I assume it's pot metal, which means I can't just bang it back in place and cover it up with JB weld. Most likely if I try to push the dents back out cold with brute force, it will crack or shatter. I expect oxyacetylene torch heat will just melt it.

Any tricks to it?
 
Some of those "aluminum" wonder rods that see at the fair and places like where you use with a propane torch might be just the ticket for that potmetal. They stick beer cans and such together all the time with those without melting them.

Silver solder would likely work too. Brazing might work as well, but maybe getting closer to the melt temp of the pot metal ????

If you have a nice tig welder with foot pedal you might have some success too as a good tig man can weld razor blades together.

Leave it like it is and fill dimples with JB Weld or Bondo is an option too. Fabricate pop rivot patch for the crack.
 
I have a 369260R1 upper grille among my extra parts from a Farmall 240 restoration I would sell if you would like an undamaged one. I believe it is cast aluminum but it could be some other mixed metal I guess. I acquired this extra one along with numerous other parts I purchased for my restoration and ended up using the original one to the tractor. My email is open is you want to go that route, Hal.
 
m Sand blast and use fiberglass resin and cloth on both sides then body putty Bondo for the dent and it will last forever
 
I have used, and keep in the assortment, some of those Utectic filler rods. They do work and are slick as an oily porcilin doorknob. Jim
 
Thanks for the offer Hal.

I lost track of the thread over the last couple days, and must've missed my chance to email you. Your email isn't listed in either classic or modern view right now, at least not for me.
 
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