BAM failure

Here’s the final polishing and cleaning up.

After the rough sanding I used finer and finer grid sandpaper and gave it a good cleaning with some chrome cleaner. This works to remove the hot streakes on the exhaust of my motorcycles so I might as well try it to remove the welding discoloration. It worked extremely well. No need for additional work. Some small spots of darker collour, but after a couple of shooting and cleaning sessions it will be all gone.

The pictures: with one remark, it is very difficult to make a good picture on a shiny object, so the dark streakes you see in the last picture is the reflection of the rubbertile the pistol is laying on:

So, awhile ago Ian asked here if this forum is still of any use? Now I’m glad he did saved it and made it up-to-date! It is thanks to a previous post made by wbautomag (William) that I offerd Ian this help. I would never thought it was possible to do this kind of welding, I would have gone for silver (hard) soldering of the rib. (even tough I still think it would be a stronger option as I should solder ALL the ribposts instead of welding 3 spots) On a side note, with todays induction heaters soldering makes much less mess as back in the day with flame torches.

All-in all it is also thanks to your forum Ian, that your BAM is repaired that way and good to go.

I guess the following is suitable to close this adventure,

one happy dancin’ baby….