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update: tiller fixed
with the left side half, cracked in two I was going to try welding but resorted to Permatex STEEL WELD epoxy with great success !
I welded the crack with just a touch of epoxy and reassembled the tiller with screws and electrical tape to line up the parts perfectly ..like a broken leg bone
after an hour I split the tiller back in it’s two separate parts to access the inner side of the broken half. I washed out all the grease/oil , scraped the surface with my Dremel tool for a better grab.
The parts being hollow there was lots of space to coat the inner surface with epoxy over the crack and for added rigidity I just soaked in a few 2.5 inch spiral galvanized nails over the crack
Perfect fit , extremely solid and a cheap fix 🙂 Now I just need to figure those darn tiller gears…
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