You gotta be kidding me - are these welds a joke?

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4/29/2018 10:15am Edited Date/Time 4/30/2018 8:48pm


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Who? What?
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Who? What?
Aftermarket radiator for your dirt bike. Looks like a bird shit all over the radiator.

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Local junior high shop class project?

Welding aluminum is still one of my goals. My brand new never used tig welder got flooded so that learning curve got kicked back. One day....
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newmann wrote:
Local junior high shop class project? Welding aluminum is still one of my goals. My brand new never used tig welder got flooded so that learning...
Local junior high shop class project?

Welding aluminum is still one of my goals. My brand new never used tig welder got flooded so that learning curve got kicked back. One day....
That flooded welder could lay down better welds than these.
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newmann wrote:
Local junior high shop class project? Welding aluminum is still one of my goals. My brand new never used tig welder got flooded so that learning...
Local junior high shop class project?

Welding aluminum is still one of my goals. My brand new never used tig welder got flooded so that learning curve got kicked back. One day....
Flooded? Just hold the foot to the floor while turning the key.
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newmann wrote:
Local junior high shop class project? Welding aluminum is still one of my goals. My brand new never used tig welder got flooded so that learning...
Local junior high shop class project?

Welding aluminum is still one of my goals. My brand new never used tig welder got flooded so that learning curve got kicked back. One day....
Flooded? Just hold the foot to the floor while turning the key.
WoohooSilly nailed it!
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Nor bad for a 5 year old in a Chinese sweat shop!
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You buy a set of radiators for 70 bucks, what do you expect?
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B31.1 compliant for sure..Laughing
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newmann wrote:
Local junior high shop class project? Welding aluminum is still one of my goals. My brand new never used tig welder got flooded so that learning...
Local junior high shop class project?

Welding aluminum is still one of my goals. My brand new never used tig welder got flooded so that learning curve got kicked back. One day....
Flooded? Just hold the foot to the floor while turning the key.
Old school rules...Wink
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Markee wrote:
You buy a set of radiators for 70 bucks, what do you expect?
But these ones are $390.
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Where did you find this?
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newmann wrote:
Local junior high shop class project? Welding aluminum is still one of my goals. My brand new never used tig welder got flooded so that learning...
Local junior high shop class project?

Welding aluminum is still one of my goals. My brand new never used tig welder got flooded so that learning curve got kicked back. One day....
Flooded? Just hold the foot to the floor while turning the key.
newmann wrote:
Old school rules...Wink
Naaaa just tip it on it's side then hold'er wide open !
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zehn wrote:
Where did you find this?
I’m not allowed to tell. Cough.
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4/29/2018 1:07pm Edited Date/Time 4/29/2018 1:09pm
____ ____ Radiators are Oversized and Braced, and made of the highest quality materials and workmanship.
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Thank you for posting our new CRF450R radiators. Glad you are watching our Instagram or Facebook where we post new products.

Photos do not show everything. The welds were done like this for a reason.

What the picture angle did not show was the radiator mounting hole that needed clearance that a weld would have blocked so by welding this way you can mount the radiators.

The weld at the top would have been welded to the fitting and if you whacked the radiator it could rip a hole in the fitting.

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Fine china! Or is this from a 500AF build? Grinning
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4/29/2018 2:00pm Edited Date/Time 4/29/2018 2:01pm
But what about the rest of the welds, were they all done like that for a reason too?
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TM USA likes our radiator quality and materials enough to stock them. Packing some for shipment Monday.

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The guessets and/or radiators arent even square to each other. Terrible craftsmanship.
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Has he taken a good look at them yet?
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Markee wrote:
You buy a set of radiators for 70 bucks, what do you expect?
nytsmaC wrote:
But these ones are $390.
How much does a good welder charge an hr? Lol
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4/29/2018 2:23pm Edited Date/Time 4/29/2018 2:28pm
kb228 wrote:
The guessets and/or radiators arent even square to each other. Terrible craftsmanship.
That's what jumped out at me. Those gussets look pretty bad. The holes are all over the place and they not even deburred/chamfered.

If no one in the build process noticed that and fixed/rejected them, what does that say about the rest of the product.
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mxjon454 wrote:
How much does a good welder charge an hr? Lol
Not sure, probably pretty cheap in some countries. ICW in the USA charges $60 per radiator for welding all of the seams.
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4/29/2018 2:57pm
Looks don't win races. Are the reviews positive on them ?
There will be quality issues with those radiators. And that’s an understatement. They’re not square. You can see it in the pictures. Fitment will be an issue.

As far as weld quality, you can’t have that bad of a looking weld without having issues in a pressure environment. Bad looking welds CAN get the job done, but not on a consistent basis.

I don’t necessarily mean to put lumpy on blast here, but based on his comments, he doesn’t understand what a quality weld looks like and/or how a visually bad looking weld is also a functionally bad weld as well. It’s either that or he’s ignorant to the quality of these radiators.

There is no defending that bad of a weld quality.

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