Shoddy workmanship at Moto Laverda

[laverdakeith]

  Found this today on a '77 Jota I'm restoring, looks like Luigi couldn't be arsed to fully weld the frame tubes!


            Keith

 

[Jotally]

Pranzo !

Ally 

 

[Laverdalothar]

It was Verlicchi's Luigi, not Laverdas, right...?

 

[Simonr501]

Tube could have been better profiled too.

SimonR

 

[mar]

Perhaps it was repaired after it left the factory by an independent shop?

 

[spaynenda]

Gadzooks!!! That looks terribly dangerous. Surely that's not from the factory?!

...and speaking of surely, who's this "Bonnie" person?

 

[eric]

             

                  Was it the last one before the month long summer break? or the first one back

                      after it?        eric

 

[CLEMTOG]

peerhaps it was a process carried out by Verlichi to prevent the cracking of the frame ( HAZ,heat affected zone) less welding means less heat,just above that incomplete joint, which would have showed in Keith's pic if it was there.

I have said before that IMHO the cracking of the frame tubes is caused by the individual welder, not the design, which explains why some frames go on for ever without cracking and others fail easilly.At lest that is what I have found on the ones that I have repaired (undercut, cold shuts, ovelay etc).This proves the point at least, that quality control at Verlichi and at Moto Laverda was less than perfect.

CLEM

 

[impamentor]

Could this be classed as being a 'LEMON' as in the motor industry.