Re: Repair of Police (B) Head..
And given the price of stitching, or even welding - it may be more cost effective (and more certain) to simply buy an aftermarket high compression head.
I am reminded of welding an aluminum skylight frame. 1/8 section at four corners and a filler piece along the short side.
$450 was the quote locally. "I get minimum $125 an hour for welding aluminum."
Welding CAN be expensive. Maybe especially so when you're talking pre-heat, inter-pass peining, and post weld heat treatment. All possibly "chargeable time."
Even the weld materials. Eutectic brand cast iron rod runs $125 a pound - back in the 1990s.
So I bought the kit for my MIG and learned how to do it myself. But I had the luxury of time, a MIG, and could invest $100 in the conversion kit for the MIG and $125 for the full Argon bottle as a sort of gamble. Fortunately on this one I won!
Joe K
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