Liquid steel

It has been 40 yrs. since I repaired some pits in
a hyd. cylinder shaft with liquid steel. Clean
them up good and wash them out with thinner.
Apply the liquid steel. Next day dress it first
with a file then polish it with emery cloth. It
worked perfectly and held completely dry until I
sold that many years later. I am now once again
faced with a badly pitted shaft. My question is--
have they come out with something even better in
the last 40 yrs. that I should use? Or should I
not argue with success and use the liquid steel?
 
I know of some 1200HP lake water pumps that move cooling water in a nuclear plant. The pump bowls eventually eroded thin due to the abrasive action of small suspended solids.
The pumps are running today as good as new. After a abundant application and shaping gallons of "Wop Weld"" to replace the lost metal. Occasionally referred to by it real name "Devcon".
 
We used to use Devcon (2 part) when we were building the nukes for extra strength for hanger holes.(Running large bore piping)
 
Wow I lost sleep about use of jb weld on an oil pan of a 5 thousand dollar engine. now i have to think about it holding our nuclear plants together! lol
 
Check with a welding shop- local guy rebuilt irrigation pipe joints with some kind of spray on stuff, then machined it. email is open if you want his name. (open even if you don"t want it!! LOL)
 
(quoted from post at 00:04:16 03/28/14) I hope you can still buy something that good! We used to use a product called Belzona in industrial maintenance, it was a two part liquid steel.
My neighbor sells Belzona products. He also does industrial repair, installation and maintenance with their product. Belzona produces several products and from what I've seen all of them are good. If I want to get him fired up, I just mention using JBWeld, which his major product competition. Here's their website.

http://www.belzona.com/en/
 
We got a nuke plant bout 20 miles away. Guess wont have time to worry much if'n it goes Chanobol(sp) on us
 

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