terex herder
Senior Member
The epoxies for wear surfaces are made with very hard fillers, typically ceramic. You would not want that in any hydraulic system.
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Chrome shaft pitting repair back yard
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Welder Dave
Senior Member
I was more thinking of good epoxy would stick to the cylinder rod. You wouldn't want any kind of hardened epoxy floating around in the hyd. system.
When I was a apprentice fitter and turner, the crane driver left the hand brake off an old tractor crane and it rolled into the workshop and dented the 6" hollow hydraulic ram on the buildings UB cross beam. A old blacksmith turned boilermaker pressed it round and filled the hollows with lead it worked well with only a little leak as it past the seals