Re: Messed up Radiator Mount on H, how to fix it..

Posted by Janicholson on May 13, 2006 at 07:32:08 from (66.173.50.123):

In Reply to: Re: Messed up Radiator Mount on H, how to fix it.. posted by Michael Soldan on May 13, 2006 at 06:53:01:

Michael is on track. If you are a good solderer you might try it yourself. The key is clean, cool, and fast.
Clean everything till bright.
Position the stud plate and wedge it in place so it cannot move easily when bumped. (I use pieces of broken brick to do this because they do not melt/burn, and they do not suck up heat. Place the bracket so that it is upside down and kinda level to make the solder flow flat, not vertical.
Pack soaking rags in the back of the hole, and around the sides of the bracket and hole (this keeps the heat from traveling to the radiators solder joints, which you do not want to melt).
Use a soldering iron that is flame heated copper tipped, or an electric iron in the 450 watt+ range. get it well pre-heated befor starting. Use 60/40 tin lead acid core solder.
Apply the heat to the thickest parts at the joint first, the heat will transfer to the thin areas easily. Pre-coating the joint with flux is ok also, but use acid core solder.
After the solder runs in and fills the gaps, clean off the flux with solvent to keep corrosion away.

If the above is not comfortable to you, or you are not a solderer, follow Michael's advice!
Let us know what happens, JimN

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