Aluminium welding.

Durafix?

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes

UIs it not the same stuff that someone posted a link to a few months ago ?

an american site

Much better to use Carr's aluminium flux and any solder you like Or even special expensive aluminium solder, but I didn't need to use it.

Costs a lot less than £20 too. Or use aulumnium solder paste, where its all mixed up for you anyway.

Like this stuff?

(with video)

And this looks like the manufacturer's site:

=A0 London SW

Seems to be a few similar, and similarly priced products, IIRC buying Taymar (of blowtorch fame) aluminium brazing rods years ago in Halfords.

Cheers Adam

Crikey, that's amazing - is is real?

But this wasn't a solder. As I said made a joint as strong as a weld.

welded aluminium is about as strong as solder ;-)

I have some of those I used to repair Birmabright panels on the Land Rover. It worked well, but needs a very careful control of heating of the area since the margin between welding and melting isn't huge. A clean propane flame is essential and MAPP gas is too fierce.

I've a pack of Durafix; only had one application to date, and it wouldn't tin at all. (I forget the material). I'm reasonably experienced at soft and silver soldering.

Easiest way on Landies (rare though the need is) is to weld them with a gas torch. Birmabright alloy is easier here than most other aluminium alloys. As a filler rod you need to use some Birmabright, snipped off spare bodywork, rather than aluminium. It also needs a powerful flux - the old Series manual recommends "Hari Kiri No.2" (!) from an address in Birmingham.

Surely with a Landy you just cut panels from any old scrap, rivet them on, and call it "added character" :-)

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Jules saying something like:

Who repairs dents and holes in Landies?

Absolutely. A few extra holes lets the water that leaks in out.

On Friday, November 13, 2009 at 7:59:28 PM UTC-5, Dave Plowman (News) wrote :

Dave, I was there and saw this stand. I was impressed and I have decided t o get some. I was visiting from the US. Do you recall the name or website of the guy selling the stuff? It really did appear to be truly melting in to the original aluminium rather than simply soldering or brazing.

-Tony

My memory tends to fade after 5 years. ;-)

/My memory tends to fade after 5 years. ;-)/q

Sure it wasn't Anthony or Tony something...? :-)

Jim K

No idea if this is the guy, but at next weekends Model Engineering exhibition there is a stand: Alutight aluminium welding.

It's probably the guy I saw at the 2013 exhibition at Sandown - I've never done any welding but do know that ali is difficult!

Peter