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Topic: Help With Welding an Emmons Endplate. |
Ron Spears
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Tennessee, USA
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Posted 10 Mar 2018 8:01 am |
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Okay guys I need some help here. I purchased an old Emmons Push Pull and the end plate has 5 holes drilled through it. The original owner connected a microphone stand and a violin clip to this particular guitar. My question is does anybody know if these holes can be welded? I would appreciate any help you can give me. Here is a photo.
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 10 Mar 2018 8:05 am
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I had an end plate very similar to yours, it had some extra holes in it.
I took it to a very experienced welder and he filled the holes with aluminum.
I took it home, leveled out the welds, polished it up and you couldn't hardly tell it. There was a little difference in the color of the original aluminum and the plugged holes but you really had to look close. |
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Jim Park
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Carson City, Nv
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Posted 10 Mar 2018 9:26 am Welding an Emmons Endplate
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| I remember a thread years ago about welding on endplates, but dont remember the particulars.I do remember that Forumite Chas Smith had some advice on particular alloys of filler rod that would match the parent metal better than others. Maybe shoot him an Email and get some good advice. He is someone I would trust with my guitar if it needed that type of repair. |
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Jerry Jones
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Franklin, Tenn.
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John Billings
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Ohio, USA
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Posted 10 Mar 2018 3:28 pm
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My late friend, Jerry Brightman, was polishing an aluminum neck when he let it slip. It banged into the polisher's axle. He was so upset! We were always a shoe string operation. I took it to a friend who is a master machinist. and welder.He Tig welded in filler.I sanded an polished. You couldn't find the repair with a microscope!
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Bent Romnes
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London,Ontario, Canada
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Posted 11 Mar 2018 11:22 am
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What Erv and John said. Me being an inexperienced machinist, had my share of goofs. I got lined up with an expert welder(he could weld 2 coke cans together)
You could not see the fixes when they were sanded and polished.
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