Liquid metal/ metal putty bodge rating

[Guest]

Has anyone tried bodging using Evo Stik liquid metal or metal putty?

 

I am too lazy and cheap to have a handlebar mirror retainer for my Fizzy re-machined. I wonder if a bodge might work. Has anyone tried these products, or similar?

[jonny69]

Has anyone tried bodging using liquid metal or metal putty? FO' SHO' NEGRO!

 

I normally use Chemical Metal. I've managed to fix loads of stuff from radiators, mirrors, plastic components, clutch parts, steering column and a gearbox casing with the stuff. This was all get-me-out-of-trouble fixes that then never failed and became permanent fixes. Don't forget you can reinforce it with wire, string, bits of metal etc, but I've never needed to.

[Guest]

Thanks brer, yo da Man.

[Danblez]

This is the king of bodges bar none. I use it for everything these days! In the last week I have repaired a chip in my kitchen worktop, the milometer gears on my 924 and to repair the edge of a fibreglass sunroof. I have also used it successfuly to stick rubber, glass and metal.

 

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[AeroNautiCal]

I've used Metalset to effect permanent repairs to alloy (crankcase) clutch cable retainers, mirror mounts, clutch covers and numerous other applications.

 

For a broken mirror mount I wrapped a bolt thread (same size as the mirror) in PTFE tape and rebuilt the mount around it, when it cured I filed the shape to match the original, painted it and undid the bolt and fitted the mirror.

[richardthestag]

Recently used it to fix one of the many oil leaks from me range rover. Rear diff pan had several pin holes. Spent 5 mins draining remains of old oil, cleaning up the area prior to spreading on som evo stick wonder. 1/2 hour and 2 beers later refilled diff and cushty.

 

In fact I am soooo impressed that I m planning to build a life size replica moggie minor out of the stuff I had left over.

[Guest]

This bodge news rocks. I will fix my mirror and then forge the Mighty Sword Excalibur with the leftovers.

[pompei]

I love a bodge. Would it fill a split in an inlet manifold?

[Guest]

If this works I am going to use it for as many safety critical tasks as I can find, especially any involving heavy objects, moving parts, electricity or nuclear power.

[beko1987]

It doesn't work well for sticking thermostat housings to crumbly landy s3 2.6 petrols though, although that could have been many of the other possabilities of why that went to shit and I had to get rid of her

 

Also, the 2 park epoxy resin is shit with diesel, when tryign to fix a snapped connector of my 2.0hdi fuel filter housing...

[Des]

A success with the 2 part snot, merc seatbelt presenter gear was a bit toothless.

 

 

Gave it some implants and sploodge crowns

 

 

And a bit of a touch of the file.

 

 

2 years ago I paid scrap value for a hgf'd Matiz as a runaround for my brother, pulled the head, needed a good skim but not much point as the block was knackered, so murdered it back together with JB Weld, the car still lives, and against my advice has been ragged all over the country.

[Mike D]

Ive used Belzona 1291 to great effect at work.

[Station]

I used that epoxy metal stuff on a 3/4 inch cog that had stripped in the electronic zoom lens of a dslr Nikon camera, it stuck to plastic and did the job fine. I got the camera free from work because it was 'broken', I checked the fault online and found Nikon was offering a free fix for it. Double bodge!

[Guest]

Strictly speaking, that's one bodge and one dodge, but it still merits CSB points. Winnage!

[HBR]

I've had much success with JB weld, works a treat on stripped splines. Used to fix many quad bike rear axle splines, clean everything up shiny & assemble with enough JB to fill the joint, tighten everything up & leave to set. The best I've done if where 5th gear splines had stripped in a VW gearbox due to the nut on the shaft end being slack, still driving when traded in 2+ years later!

[Dr Mike Oxgreen]

Wish I'd known about this stuff when we had wing spar corrosion on the Robin. It would have saved us a fortune, and I'm sure the CAA would have been fine about it.

[Guest]

Out of stock since they did Hammersmith Flyover a few months back.