Posted by PJH on December 12, 2012 at 06:25:32 from (50.40.254.45):
In Reply to: This is impressive! posted by Puddles on December 12, 2012 at 03:24:51:
I took the adult ed classes at our local junior college, and the instructor demonstrated welding aluminum with oxy-acet torch. A beautiful weld. He stressed cleanliness - I remember him saying a wire brush would contaminate the weld area. He used a flux coated electrode for a filler rod. He gave us all some coupons so we could try it, but he forewarned us that we would ALL fail. He was right. . . The darn stuff does not change it's appearance as it heats up, like steel does. It's there one second, and gone the next. Holes and blobs all over my coupons. And then there's the old guy, now deceased, who ran a blacksmith shop in our little town. He saved worn out aluminum scoop shovels - he cut strips from the shovels and used the strips for filler rod. Cleanliness was not his forte, but he still made a functional weld. Based on my previous experience, I consider any attempt to weld aluminum, by me, to be a waste of fuel.
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