Broken Mars - what are the odds

[salj838]

browsed ebay today after about more than a month not browsing the site and couple of broken mars frame are available! i thought may i can buy both and can build 1 mars Frankenstein but what are the odds both are broken on the same side! Blimey!

Oakley MARS shades sunglasses BROKEN for parts OEM official original Ruby lens

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[SiRacer420]

I spoke with the second seller. He has 11 complete boxed sets. Wants about 300 per set. Hes trying to break them down to just pieces and get the most money. And he ripped the serial numbers off the boxes too.

Edit: he said its about 50/50 left and right broken. I got him to 220 for two frames, no lenses and no boxes. Maybe you can get him to go lower.

 

[MJLSr]

Half Mars, half Crater... Macrater?

Very clean breaks in both cases, even the non-matching one... Maybe they both got tune-up advice from the same person?

 

[pjd1234]

buy em if you need parts it seems like a good deal.

 

[XMetalAddict]

Could that be fixed by welding? I know it is possible to weld Titanium but I am not sure how delicate you can be. I have read somewhere on this form of people welding the bridge together to make it ridged.

 

[joecool862]

Could that be fixed by welding? I know it is possible to weld Titanium but I am not sure how delicate you can be. I have read somewhere on this form of people welding the bridge together to make it ridged.

This seems like it defeats the purpose of the flex coupler design... I know it's possible but there is no way they could fit on a moderately sized head like mine without flex...

 

[kronin323]

There was one pair that popped up welded like that, and it wasn't done by a forum member, IIRC. AFAIK, nobody here has successfully welded a repair. The problem has been the x-metal alloy has enough other metals in it to prevent normal Ti welding from working.

One guy recast an entire piece but it was prohibitively expensive.

 

[XMetalAddict]

This seems like it defeats the purpose of the flex coupler design... I know it's possible but there is no way they could fit on a moderately sized head like mine without flex...

Sorry, my post was a bit confusing. I meant weld the broken flex coupler. I just used the other bit as reason why i thought it could be done, not to actually do it. Like you, i feel this would not be particularly comfortable/practical.

 

[XMetalAddict]

There was one pair that popped up welded like that, and it wasn't done by a forum member, IIRC. AFAIK, nobody here has successfully welded a repair. The problem has been the x-metal alloy has enough other metals in it to prevent normal Ti welding from working.

One guy recast an entire piece but it was prohibitively expensive.

I guess the alloy has different melting properties which causes poor welds.

The re-casting sounds fun, but a pastime for millionaires. Where would you even begin to find a foundry to do that?

I am surprised that no one has tried to print a pair yet in titanium

 

[kronin323]

I guess the alloy has different melting properties which causes poor welds.

The re-casting sounds fun, but a pastime for millionaires. Where would you even begin to find a foundry to do that?

I am surprised that no one has tried to print a pair yet in titanium

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