My 5th LAT 9 had its head cut off too.
I went to a fellow Tiger owner for
help.
I had an extra head or two. One went
to Tiger Tom and I believe is the
source
of the repro heads. One went to a lat in
Canada who said he would
reproduce
it. I've been waiting 10 years for work.
So much for trusting new
owners.
He heated the wheel to about 700 degress to
clean it. The welded the
aluminum head to the
LAT 9. Once welded on he machined the
joint so that you
can't see the weld seam
You can tell it was welded on only if you turn
the
whell over and you see the weld marks.
He also filled any deep scratches and
tool
marks and then remachines the faces.
Great friend to have. Cost. A
free meal at the
the next Spring Fling.
Dave
________________________________
From: Tony Somebody <achd73@yahoo.com>
To:
tigers@autox.team.net; DAVID GREEN <alpdavegre@msn.com>; Steve Ralsten
<s_ralsten@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thu, August 19, 2010 11:45:53 AM
Subject: Re:
[Tigers] Proposed Panasport Tigers head center cap project
Steve- I think the
idea is to have the Tiger head, like on the LAT 9 center of
the original
wheel, made for the Panasport and perhaps Minilites. IMO, just the
Tiger head
needs made , with a couple of small tapped holes in the back and then
an
owner could attach them to their center caps BUT I don't own nor have I paid
enough attention to the Panasport center caps to know if even this idea would
work BUT it seems better than replacing the complete center cap and much
cheaper, IMO that is.
TtT
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