21/04/2026
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Our customer has just received his 1941 Harley Knucklehead tanks and couldn’t believe they were the same parts as he’d given us to repair as several many others told him they were stuffed and couldn’t believe repaired so he had quite a few sleepless nights .
These tanks are extremely rare items and had to be saved but the absolute butchery from previous repairs was absolutely ridiculous ad Someone in the past had decided it would be a good idea to remove all the badge clips that were originally spot welded to both tanks with a hammer and chisel so in doing this they did complete their task but damaged the tanks that badly they had knocked a heap of holes in both of them while doing so, so again they thought it would be a good idea to try and fill the holes with bloody bronze and as I’ve mentioned many times prior bronze is 1 of the worst things you can use on a tank as it cracks the parent metal and keeps cracking so the repair gets bigger and bigger, so after removing the back sections and chemically stripping them all the bronze and the cracks were cut out and removed so new replacement pieces could be made, shaped and butt welded into place and all flame welded beaten and planished along the way so they could be file finished.
After our repair sections were completed the tanks were lightly blasted internally and the back sections replaced, they were then tested for leaks and the badge clips installed. The tanks were again lightly blasted, primed, dry rubbed and reprimed and were then ready for collection.
