Alloy Wheel split rim repair

This is not what you'd normally think of as an alloy wheel with a split rim - a 2 or 3 piece wheel bolted together - but a one piece wheel (Ford Focus ST) where a severe kerbing had split the rim!

Here, the paint has been sanded off around the damaged area (yes, alloy wheels are painted with aluminium paint!) and the crack has been ground out with a high speed burr.

The crack on the inside of the rim was also ground out .

The crack was TIG welded on the outside & the lip of the rim was also built up with weld where it had been ground away. The scorched area on the right is where the paint was not sanded off far enough back from the weld & has burnt.

The crack is welded on the inside of the rim

The outside of the rim is filed & smoothed.

Finally, the weld is filed & smoothed off on the inside. The wheel is now ready to be repainted.

Bicycle frame repair

A bicycle frame had cracked across this bracket.

The paint was cleaned off either side of the break,

& the crack ground out to a "vee" section on both sides.

The broken parts were then TIG welded back together. Made a bit trickier because the bracket had originally been brazed into the frame tubes & the heat from the TIG torch melted the braze, some of which ran into the weld & produced Zinc fumes.