I viewng the crack in the picture, you will see the crack goes around a corner.
Not only is aluminum different to weld, to weld it you would be creating
shrinkage stress from two different angles. I have welded lots of aluminum in
my time, and as posted already, the area (if allowed by the FAA) would need to
be heat treated also, to relieve the stress created by the weld, which would be
impossibe to do in an installed part as this.
Gordon Smith
THE SENILITY PRAYER :
Grant me the senility to forget the people
I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and
the eyesight to tell the difference.
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