Repairing cast

[Oakbear]

Hi all,

In a bizarre accident a rogue hammer flew from one end of the garage to the other and caught the cast surrounding the spindle on my shiny new lathe! :shock:

It hit right between the indexing holes, and the cast iron there crumbled away into bits.
It all still works fine, although i've lost a couple of index points (no big deal as i don't use them as yet, and can get a index plate if i change my mind).

Any ideas how to repair this?

 

[jasonB]

Chemical Metal or JB Weld are both metal filled epoxys. Build up the area with this then file/sand to shape and finally re drill your holes.


The JB weld can be a bit runny for this type of job so the Chemical metal which is more like car body filler will be better, it's also made by Plastic Padding.

Jason

 

[dickm]

Never tried this, but would it be worth trying to stick the bits back into place with Araldite?
And you ought to tell us how this hammer became so vicious :?

 

[Mike Wingate]

Plate over it and drill the holes.

 

[stevebuk]

your missus been throwing things at you again ryan, i said dont be on there too long.. :lol:

 

[OldWood]

Claim it off your household insurance.

 

[Oakbear]

Thanks for the tips guys!

The section it hit has crumbled due to the indexing holes being there. There's little to salvage and restick otherwise i'd have tried it.

I think i might try the chemical metal route, although i'll need to sort some kind of backing as the area it's broken through rests next to a bearing!

To be honest the incident wasn't too convoluted, i pulled something off a shelf, which was lodged in place. The item lodging it in polace was a rogue hammer (keep you tool safe tidy folks! ). This then decided to take a bizarre looping arc across the workshop, which left me wondering 'where the hell did that go?!'.
Unfortunately it was possible the one spot it could do most damage. Oh well!

I can live with for a bit. When i have a go i'll post the results if it'sd not too embarassing!