Broken part on the NSR door handle of the new Zilbus.

Two questions.

1) what is the metal ?
2) Can I repair it ?

(It's £47 for a new handle assembly, and it's a cnut to strip out from a scrappy one.)


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I would say its a cast light alloy of some kind

commonly known as monkey metal round these parts.
Scrapyard time I think

i'd say its "craponium"

sorry

can you fabricate one from steel?

`Unrepairium' (allso called monkey metal here as well )
Yep - it's scrapyard time !

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Originally posted by mookaloid
can you fabricate one from steel?

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drill both bits and glue a rod in with epoxy resin or something? Easy and probably virtually nil cost?

As its frog box it will be some cack cast metal so you cant do alot with it apart from that.

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Originally posted by zilspeed

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Originally posted by mookaloid
can you fabricate one from steel?

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Well, it's just a pin with some ears on it which turn the cams which pull the levers which work the catches which pull the levers which turn the sprockets which pull the levers and bingo, the door slides back !

Err, yes, guess I could.

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It looks to me like what they call Zamak over here. A zinc alloy. Easy to cast but pretty well impossible to fix.

Scrappy or glue/mechanical repair IMO.

ETA It's called Zamak in English too apparently.

[Edited on 13/2/10 by MikeCapon]

It's zinc based Zamac as Mike says and the only thing to join it is the HTS2000/Lumiweld sort of aluminium brazing rods.

I wombled this bit of steel rod.




I then put some weld onto the sides where the ears were and ground it back to the general shape which it was.
Thankfully, it seems to work.

That's another little job out of the way.

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Originally posted by zilspeed
I wombled this bit of steel rod.




I then put some weld onto the sides where the ears were and ground it back to the general shape which it was.
Thankfully, it seems to work.

That's another little job out of the way.

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