Ghettorigonomotry!

Everything i owned has at one time been ghetto rigged.. Everything i touch or break then becomes ghetto rigged.. lol

i ghetto rigged a seat once. it involved LOTS of duct tape...

I think a successful ghetto rig is almost if not as much satisfying when you make it work then just putting a new part on haha. I just rigged up a upper gyro cable with a too small gyro cable some knarps and extra cable housing and that gyro runs smooth as fuck now

Pretty sure you can't weld aluminum to steel. Aluminum's melting point is a lot lower than steels

Welding won't work. Different metals

Wow....just wow

What I did when i had that issue was get a very thin piece of aluminum sheet metal and cut a shim out of it to wrap around my bars at the knurling. It filled up the extra space so that my bars stopped slipping, took like 30 seconds, and I could use the bars and stem on other bars and stems. Try that before even thinking about welding, which most likely won't work anyways.

future FBM wrote:

Welding won't work. Different metals

future FBM wrote:

Welding won't work. Different metals

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Exactly one is chromoly and other is aluminum.

future FBM wrote:

Welding won't work. Different metals

future FBM wrote:

Welding won't work. Different metals

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its possible long as his dad puts more heat on the steel so it mealts around the same time the aluminum dose. it is extremly hard to get them to fue together but it is possible

I'm not sure it will work but put skateboard grip tape or sand paper around that part of the bars.

No you aren't.

Stem = aluminum

Bars = Chromoly steel.

You cannot weld them together.

Collin_McClenahan wrote:

What I did when i had that issue was get a very thin piece of aluminum sheet metal and cut a shim out of it to wrap around my ...more

Collin_McClenahan wrote:

What I did when i had that issue was get a very thin piece of aluminum sheet metal and cut a shim out of it to wrap around my bars at the knurling. It filled up the extra space so that my bars stopped slipping, took like 30 seconds, and I could use the bars and stem on other bars and stems. Try that before even thinking about welding, which most likely won't work anyways.

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This. Soda can works AWESOME.

future FBM wrote:

Welding won't work. Different metals

future FBM wrote:

Welding won't work. Different metals

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jj0996 wrote:

its possible long as his dad puts more heat on the steel so it mealts around the same time the aluminum dose. it is extremly ...more

jj0996 wrote:

its possible long as his dad puts more heat on the steel so it mealts around the same time the aluminum dose. it is extremly hard to get them to fue together but it is possible

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My degree in welding says you are wrong.

future FBM wrote:

Welding won't work. Different metals

future FBM wrote:

Welding won't work. Different metals

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jj0996 wrote:

its possible long as his dad puts more heat on the steel so it mealts around the same time the aluminum dose. it is extremly ...more

jj0996 wrote:

its possible long as his dad puts more heat on the steel so it mealts around the same time the aluminum dose. it is extremly hard to get them to fue together but it is possible

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dave lawrence wrote:

My degree in welding says you are wrong.

dave lawrence wrote:

My degree in welding says you are wrong.

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but you know is what the book says, and what they say in school. i have seen it done before

Wow I completely forgot about this thread! So much hate! My dad can do it. He just said it would be a waste of time because it wouldnt be as strong as steel to aluminum. So he did something else that i didnt pay atention to but it worked!

chaz.bryan wrote:

Wow I completely forgot about this thread! So much hate! My dad can do it. He just said it would be a waste of time because it ...more

chaz.bryan wrote:

Wow I completely forgot about this thread! So much hate! My dad can do it. He just said it would be a waste of time because it wouldnt be as strong as steel to aluminum. So he did something else that i didnt pay atention to but it worked!

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Probably brazed it.

jj0996 wrote:

its possible long as his dad puts more heat on the steel so it mealts around the same time the aluminum dose. it is extremly ...more

jj0996 wrote:

its possible long as his dad puts more heat on the steel so it mealts around the same time the aluminum dose. it is extremly hard to get them to fue together but it is possible

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dave lawrence wrote:

My degree in welding says you are wrong.

dave lawrence wrote:

My degree in welding says you are wrong.

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jj0996 wrote:

but you know is what the book says, and what they say in school. i have seen it done before

jj0996 wrote:

but you know is what the book says, and what they say in school. i have seen it done before

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I know what my experience also says. If you heat the steel up hot enough to weld it, and the aluminum next to it would just melt to liquid and NOT bond them. The metals are too chemically different to correctly bond like welding steel to steel.

I bet what you saw was aluminum melted onto the steel that ACTED like putting glue on it.

And to anyone saying otherwise, show me legitimate proof. I am 100% certain that you CAN NOT weld aluminum to steel legitimately with strong and safe results. Your filler between the two would only mesh with one correctly, and not at all for the other.

Dave is defo right on this, if not i will eat my dog.