LETS HEAR SOME J/B WELD STORIES!

[Guest]

anyone use it and have good luck?

[Guest Randy Berger]

I think it is a very good product and have used it in several instances. I repaired a die-cast toy train made ca. 1932 whose castings had grown and snapped a member. I JBed it in place using a sort of fillet and then colored it black with a Magic Marker. The repair looked as though it belonged there.

<span style="font-style: italic">cum grano salis</span>

YFAM, Randy Berger

[aqh]

Tommy,

I used JB to build up my radiator inlet & outlet ports on my 1917 Olds. That was three years ago and it is still doing the job. I cleaned the parts, rusty cast iron, with a drill powered wire wheel prior to applying JB. I built up the area with JB and filed it back to the correct round size for the hoses. I was/am very impressed with the results.

[Guest imported_PackardV8]

i've use JB to plug a hole that i drill in the metal shield of 'lube for life' bearings after i grease them to my satisfation.

Use it to build up wallowed out bearing bores, seal retention for applications to which no seal was ever intended, thread locker, pin holed oil reservoir for oil bathe air cleaners, engine oil pump bleed tube for pressure relief valve port among many other things.

Eyeglass frames. broken yard stick. Mollies in brick mortor. I wonder if i could use it to fill a tooth cavity. Tried to convince a former girl friend that i could repair a cracked filling she had but never got the opportunity.

The possibilities are endless.

[critterpainter]

Had to move a model a with a pin hole in a cyl wall that dumped water into the engine. no way to tow car...so...off came head added jb weld to hole....low on the cyl at bottom of water jacket. Let it cure overnight and then smoothed it up so the piston riings would not catch it. drove the car out of where it was and to my house. about 4-5 miles. too cheap in those days to hire a tow truck. fix lasted a total 7 miles or so. I Don't reccomend this technique but it worked for a while..

Bill

[RoadsterRich]

Colleen is a huge fan of JB-Weld. Once upon a time, about 20 or so years ago her VW Bug developed a cracked block. She carefully cleaned out the crack and filled it (from the outside) with JB-Weld. Her uncle (he worked for Sears Auto Repair for years and years) swore that it would never hold. Well she drove another 30,000 miles with that JB-Weld patch before the car died (for other reasons).

I'll revise this when I get home later today with her embellished (and much more accurate) account of the story...

Rich

[Jim Bollman]

I've use JB Weld for some fairly normal things. The best was an alternator bolt that was really only a pivot that snapped off on a camper during an alternator change. We were in the middle of Michigan lower, heading for upper. Would have been several hour delay to tear down drill out etc. JB Weld held it well enough to get another 100 miles to the camp grounds, even wet, at the camp ground more was added and left to dry over night, it was still holding in the bolt when it was sold a few years later.

A friend has the best story I've heard and I'm still not sure I believe him. He has a Crosley that he only uses for display, drives it off the trailer to field and back. He claims to have used JB weld to fix badly scored cylinder walls and has held for over 5 years of this type of use. He probably has only put a few miles on the engine but that is impressive, if it is true.

[another old car]

howdy folks

who remembers seeing the bottle sitting on parts counter at most of autopart stores / with whatever stuck to it - soda caps - penneys - nails - screws - bolts - etc - etc

my dad fixed his old model M tractor - one spring when he found water jacket had cracked during winter - that patch held for years

I always have some of it in garage - and a stack of plastic coffee can lids for mixing - but sometimes you dont have time to let it cure - I'll use some of the newer epoxys-they start setting in 5 minutes

and theres places I wouldn't use anything but JBweld

[Guest]

Okay, here's a hot one. I use it to repair steering wheel cracks. Beats the pants off of PC-7 and that god awful crap called POR-15 putty. I also use it to fix rustout on cars, repair radiators, and whatever I think JB will attach to.

So far I haven't found anything. Even ceramics and glass. To date (20 plus years) JB has NEVER let me down. And by the way, I restored steering wheels for about 10 years, and never had a complaint from dozens of customers. Well, almost never. I wasn't FAST enough for some!, and that's why I retired, except for friends. Ask Chocolatetown, he's got one of the last ones I did. Almost forgot, I've got a VW engine with 125,000 plus on it, and it's patched with JB between #3 and #2 cylinders on the case. Now that has got to be impressive! Imagine the heat that JB is doing battle with?

[Guest Hal Davis (MODEL A HAL)]

I used it to repair the threads (1" pipe) where the mixer screws into the head of a hit and miss engine. No problems so far. According to the package, it will repair valve guides and valve seats. That one sounds a little too good to be true, but I've never tried it.

[Guest HeyPop]

Second Model A had a crack between #1 and #2 cylinder in the top of the block. Didn't have any plans to use as a daily driver so I cleaned it up, mixed up the Jb and filed down the 'lump' as good as possible with a file. That was a year ago and it's still running along fine. No water loss or compression loss so I guess it's still holding. Probably take the head off next summer to check. Anyone ever get a chemical breakdown of the stuff?

[Guest DeSoto Frank]

Have used it twice:

1) To fill-in existing vacuum port in throttle-body of Rochester "B" carb and re-drill to relocate vacuum port for distributor advance (long story...trying to make a 1967 or earlier carb work w/ a 1972 engine). Needed "repair" to be "permanent" yet able to return to stock condition.

2) To repair broken hose nipple on plastic windshield washer jet ($20 from Ford !) on my '93 Escort (made a "splint" out of 1/8" id brass tube and used JB Weld to hold it all together...

So far so good on both attempts....

Now. if were only "platable"...then we'd be able to repair our pitted die-cast trim pieces !

[Guest imported_MrEarl]

So JBWeld isn't "plateable"?

I just received a grille for my 54 Buick, and UPS did their typical fine job; broke one of the bars. I was wondering if there is anything that would "weld" it back such as JBWeld.

Only time I ever used it was welding a part back on my big brothers Cushman scooter back in 1961. He never knew it

So any suggestions on what to use on my grille.

[ronbarn]

OK, you asked for it! Friends from New Zealand bought a Marmon in South Carolina, sight unseen. Seller stated it would take extensive repair and about a year to get it running. They flew over anyway, picked up the car, put it in reasonable shape (linoleum top, plywood floor, etc.) and used JB Weld to repair big end bearings on connecting rods, plus other places. Got it running within seven days and drove it as far as Dallas (a little farther, but unsure just how far) before they had to have some babbit bearing pouring. Drove it on to California and shipped it to NZ. That JB Weld as a bearing substitute worked well for over 1500 miles. True story and have documentation to prove it.