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Need a welder - Edinburgh-ish
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 5:52 pm
by Tim S
Hi
The bracket on the catalytic converter on my 2006 Focus has rusted through. KwikFit can't repair - only supply a whole new cat for £'00s.
Anyone know of someone in/near Edinburgh who could fabricate and weld on a replacement??
Cheers
Tim
Re: Need a welder - Edinburgh-ish
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 9:48 pm
by SAJ
Have you contacted Craig at CMC to see if he can help?
Re: Need a welder - Edinburgh-ish
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 12:29 pm
by Dominic
SAJ wrote:Have you contacted Craig at CMC to see if he can help?
I believe Craig at CMC has a good welder who is well priced.
Re: Need a welder - Edinburgh-ish
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 4:29 pm
by pete
Cable ties.
Re: Need a welder - Edinburgh-ish
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 5:06 pm
by rossybee
pete wrote:Cable ties.
And an old Heinz beans tin
Re: Need a welder - Edinburgh-ish
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 6:10 pm
by AllyY
rossybee wrote:pete wrote:Cable ties.
And an old Heinz beans tin
No help to the OP – apologies - but gave me a flashback to when I was a lad just out of school. I had a mate who lashed an old soup can to the exhaust of his Austin 1100 (this wasn't yesterday!) in an attempt to "repair" a hole in the pipe work. Lasted about ½ mile before there was a suspiciously strong burning smell from the vicinity of the repair - obviously used an inferior brand of soup
It took him far longer to chip off the resultant mangled mass of molten metal (© Scotty from Star Trek) than to attach the soup can.
Re: Need a welder - Edinburgh-ish
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2016 6:27 pm
by rossybee
Old beer cans worked with jubilee clips, until they fatigued due to the f*cked engine mounts on my old Talbot Samba
Re: Need a welder - Edinburgh-ish
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2016 6:29 pm
by Stephen
I'll second jubilee clips!