06-24-2006, 02:37 AM
What Tom said,
here is a couple tips that will help,
use a stainless steel brush or wire wheel to clean with
heat the thicker peice of aluminum first to the point that when you touch the rod to the part the rod will melt.
keeping that part hot heat the next peice untill it reaches the same temp.
then you can pudle your aluminum weld.
this part is vary improtant, you must get rid of any oxidized metal...
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aside from this product there is another product that works well, it is an aluminum epoxy. this will fill cracks and patch holes. It hardens like metal, it can be drilled and tapped.
another product is Marine Text. that is a putty form of the aluminum bond, If it is still available. It has been thirty five years since I used that.
get your parts clean, and once you put eather of these materials on you will have to disk sand or grind to get it off.
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here is a couple tips that will help,
use a stainless steel brush or wire wheel to clean with
heat the thicker peice of aluminum first to the point that when you touch the rod to the part the rod will melt.
keeping that part hot heat the next peice untill it reaches the same temp.
then you can pudle your aluminum weld.
this part is vary improtant, you must get rid of any oxidized metal...
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aside from this product there is another product that works well, it is an aluminum epoxy. this will fill cracks and patch holes. It hardens like metal, it can be drilled and tapped.
another product is Marine Text. that is a putty form of the aluminum bond, If it is still available. It has been thirty five years since I used that.
get your parts clean, and once you put eather of these materials on you will have to disk sand or grind to get it off.
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