Pilot's will like this thread, Piper Cub restoration

[GregWeld]

Oh yeah buddy!

Yesterday while wasting some time - I searched Youtube for some tips on TIG welding aluminum... I came across some "interesting welding" - one of which showed a guy using a torch on the bottom of a beer can - and then doing a technique that "back in the day" I'd have called brazing... adding filler and smearing this filler around until the hole was patched.

Looks like the repairs here used a similar technique...

I'm ASSuming that the airframe is aluminum?? I don't know anything about planes except that I'd never jump out of a perfectly good one.

[Spiffav8]

Originally Posted by Musclerodz

Time for an update. After about 12 hours of disassembly, got the fuselage hauled down to the blaster for some cleaning. Between old bad repairs and corrosion, I have alot of welding in my future.

Yeah....I don't like those kinds of pictures.