Aluminium Welding UK DBT Engineering Preston Lancashire

DBT Engineering Services

Aluminium Welding Preston

Ally Welding Preston

Aluminium Welding Lancashire

From the few blogs I have already posted, you may have realised that I do a variety of work.

The work is not limited to what you have seen on my page, there is more to come, I thought it might be an idea to give you a list of some of my services and what I can offer.

Also if there is a project that you have in mind and you are wondering if I have done something similar, then please ask by using the comments section. If I have an advice or information which I can share with you then I will for free. I have been doing this kind of work for the last 34 years, I have lots of experience.

Aluminium Welding or Aluminum Welding if you call it that.Aluminium TIG, MIG and Gas or Oxy Fuel.

Repairs to castings, fabrications, sheet metal, Aluminium framework, Aluminium brackets.

Repairs to propellors, Alloy Wheel repairs, Alloy Wheel crack welding, Alloy Wheel Straightening buckled wheels. Repairs to motorcycle casings, repairing threads in Aluminium casings, Removing broken studs.

Stainless Steel TIG welding, Stainless Exhaust repairs for cars and motorcyles, Stainless Steel Pipe welding, Stainless Steel fabrications.

Steel TIG Welding, Steel MIG Welding General Steel fabrications, Sheet Metal.

Vintage car Aluminium bodywork restorations, English Wheel, Shrinking and Stretching, Forming new panels, repairs to wings, running boards, bonnet, boot. hood , fender repairs.

Fuel tank repairs, Aluminum fuel Tanks made and repaired, yes I can weld them even after they have been used! Air conditioning pipe repairs. Aluminium Intercoolers made and repaired or modified, Aluminium air intake pipes made. etc etc etc.

I also do machining work which includes, Turning of Steel bushes, shafts, spacers, manufacturing special bolts, Screwcutting. Lathe work of all types Manual and CNC.

Milling making new parts or machining parts which I have welded to bring them back to original specifications. Drilling, Tapping threads, Reaming.

A job that is appearing more regularly now is Ford Transit Cam Cover, they crack across the top of the bearing journals, I have successfully repaired a few of them recently and I will post some photo's soon.

Alloy Wheel Repairs in Preston, bent buckled cracked or any other damage, all repairs done quickly, and at a price that might surprise you.

I could go on all day, so i'll stop, that's all for now.

DBT Engineering

50 Essex Street

Preston

PR1 1QE

07866 943582

01772 821692

dbteng@hotmail.com

Carburettors oval bored.

This is a job that I do on a regular basis for a local engine tuner. The idea is to bore the carb oval, which gives more top end without losing anything anywhere else, if you just bore the carb bigger diameter you lose at the bottom end.

34mm carb

The carb is only truly round down inside where the machining has been done, that is where I find the centre position of the carb.

With the boring head set at 34mm I move the machine 1mm towards the top of the carb.

Then bore though till the cut stops, you can't see it but you can hear it!

Stop the spindle and retract the tool making sure the cutting tool is positioned towards the bottom of the carb, that way there is no scratch left in the bore of the carb.

As you can see material has only been cut from the top side of the carb bore.

Job Done.

Alvis Bonnet repairs part 2

The bonnet has been cut down by an inch and a half all the way across the back edge, this needs to be replaced. So it's the usual procedure, tack weld the piece first the seam weld using TIG and about 75amps AC.

Welded inside and out.

This first section was planished flat file and sanded till smooth.

Then on with the next section to match the first.

The sides of the bonnet still had original paint.

This paint stripper works fast and does the job well.

A quick video to show the results.

As per the previous repairs make a patch to fit exactly, tack it first then fully weld it in place.

Lots of clamps and a backing strip.

Finished in the normal way.

The other side was treated in the same way.

The Aluminium trim strip also needs to be extended.

This is not a swage line, it is a solid piece of Aluminium riveted in place.

A small section was cut with a hacksaw length ways along a one inch bar of Aluminium to make a D shaped section about 5mm thick in the centre.

The piece was welded to the end of the original strip but only in the middle, this was to ensure that no distorion was introduced into the finished panel, which would be more difficult to planish out now that the strip was in place. A small amount of body filler will hide the joint before paint.

Then a solid Aluminium rivet was used to secure it into the panel.

The finished repairs which took around 16 hrs.