Uncle Bill

Wes' Uncle demonstrated the metal spray on un-pre-heated specimens and it was impressive. He made it look easy (sign of an expert) casually heated up the area with the oxy-acetelyne torch and then turned on the powder metal flow. He built up shapes and fixed breakage on a Chevy head and then offered anyone a chance to swing at it with a sledge hammer. I believe the virgin cast iron might be more prone to breaking than his spray metal repairs.

In addition to repairs, it also seemed possible to make things that didn't exist, like extra exhaust manifold bolt bosses on particular Pontiac heads. It would have been intersting if somehow he could spray weld together the poorman's 427, or maybe make some modern heart shaped combustion chambers in our old wedge heads.

Gary B