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Offline Europa73

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Door window frame anchor broken
« on: Tuesday,December 20, 2016, 06:17:57 PM »
Has anyone found a good fix for the below?


In striping the doors down I found the aluminium anchor has at some point split (see pic)

any idea on a fix? apart from a full strip down.

cheers,

also restoring 69 Elan +2 and driving a 1975 TR6

Offline Pfreen

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Re: Door window frame anchor broken
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday,December 20, 2016, 06:22:44 PM »
I have the same issue, both doors.   I was going to have new tabs welded on.
Any other suggestions?

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Re: Door window frame anchor broken
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday,December 21, 2016, 01:08:13 AM »
a good quality bonded joint may work. going to try that on one of mine. Make up a new anchor, grind off carefully the old weld. not sure yet what bond agent to use yet, but it should work ok on well prepared surfaces.

Dave,

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Re: Door window frame anchor broken
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday,December 21, 2016, 02:22:51 AM »
I fabricated a small "splint" to support the tab and used liquid steel to bond the break...ld