Broken ladder - repair or replace?
Last summer I had an encounter with a tree and it won, resulting in a broken ladder on my truck camper. The attached pictures show the remaining part of the still attached bottom section and the broke...
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Gjac wrote:
I fixed mine with a steel pipe I had laying around. I slid the steel pipe inside the the broken Al tubes drilled two holes one in each section through the tube and steel pipe then installed SS bolts and nuts. I made an outer sleeve from another section of a broken tubing just to cover the split section. The repair cost nothing but about 2 hrs of my time and is much stronger than the original 3/32 in Al tube. That ladder is an easy target for trees, gutters and large boulders especially if you are backing up alone.
Aluminum, steel, stainless steel?
Nothing like breaking all of the metallurgic rules, toss in a little bit of saltwater spray and now you have a bunch of oxides..
Aluminum and steel together, not the best of friends, stainless and aluminum barely get along provided the stainless is the correct mix.
Man, you guys really do not value your lives.
