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Re: "Crack of Doom"

To: mgs@triumph.cs.utah.edu
Subject: Re: "Crack of Doom"
From: Joanna Adler <joannaadler@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:44:28 -0800
I did that to my 'B back in '88 and it held up well.  My new(to me) 'B
doesn't have the crack or the weld, but I was thinking of being proactive
when I replace the inner door skins.

Joanna
'79 MGB LE


"Murch, Paul" wrote:

> Trevor,
>
> Below is your treatment of the crack of doom from a while back,  How
> about a progress report?  Has this worked out?  Any reapearance?  Things
> that you would do differently?
>
> I am in the process of reskining my doors and have welded in plates much
> in hopes to avoid future problems.
>
> Thanks
> Paul Murch
> 64B
>
> Quote from long e-mail
>
> "What I did was to put a plate of steel behind the crack. I drilled
> a half dozen holes in the doorskin on both sides of the crack, and
> plug welded through them to attach the plate. Then weld up the crack,
> also welding it to the plate in the process. The welded up crack will
> hold, because the plate takes the "design defect" stress off the area.
>
> --
> Trevor Boicey, Ottawa, Canada.
> tboicey@brit.ca, http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/";


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