Metal Melting 101 – How To

For better or worse thermally fused metal joints are an integral part of motorcycle construction, and despite some serious advances in liquid adhesive technology, are likely to remain so for the near future. That’s not a bad thing; people have been welding metal together since roughly 3,000 BC so most of the procedures are fairly well established. In light of that, we thought it might be interesting to take a brief look at the various processes involved. The following won’t make you a welder, but it should provide some insight into what it takes to keep all those loose pieces of steel, copper and aluminum that make up our motorcycle, flying in close formation.

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