Amazon's CHEAP Alternative To Aluminum Welding!!! (Alumaloy)
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Published 2019-08-23
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All Comments (21)
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I do some silver soldering in my gunsmithing and I've found that if you place your pieces on a brick rather than an iron vise, the pieces will heat up more evenly, as the vise will draw away the heat.
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That has been around for over 40 years, we used it for leak repairs on Carrier a/c condsening units that where manufactured with aluminum refrigerant coils.
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Never seen anything by you before man but the clean cut straight to the point way you made this vid was beyond great. The exact info anyone with common sense wanted and the exact info anyone with material science kinda mind wanted. Appreciate ya very informative
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Very much appreciated. It seems everyone is oriented to the most modern. Torch welding and braising has more potential than we know and I'm learning all I can for practical usage. You taught me a lot today and Thank You.
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Nice stuff! I'm a professional TIG- Welder for over 35 years and I' ve seen a lot of crabb for brazing and welding aluminum. But this stuff seems to be a hit! A suggestion from my side: put the thicker material in a oven, hot as it can. If I had to close the hole in the tank, i would put the small aluminum plate into the oven. So you can warm up the tank with the torch! Best regards from the very north of Germany!!
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One good rule of thumb is to apply the heat quickly. Use as much heat as you can and place the filler in quickly. More heat over a shorter period of time is more controllable than too little heat over a longer time.
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I remember seeing infomercials for Alumaloy when I was a kid. Just seeing the name took be back instantly. Thanks for that.
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FYI - The technique where you pre-braze the edge of a joint before you make the connection is called "tinning the joint". That technique is used a lot in architectural sheet metal work solder joints in copper sheet, galvanized sheet steel and stainless steel sheet metal. Great video!
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This stuff is amazing for radiator repairs. You can also buy flux (comes in a plastic bucket) for the rods. You just dip the rod in it after you cleaned it of and go to town. Really helps keeping your “welds” cleaner.
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I bought some stuff called 'Super Alloy 5' from Muggyweld that uses a flux and oxyacetylene to braze aluminum instead of just soldering it. Although it's nowhere near as pretty as TIG, they claim it's just as strong - 30,000 psi. What I know is, it is tough as nails when finished - especially handy in places it can be cleaned up with a grinder. Used it to patch up my old duck boat hull after a few rivets were forcefully beaten loose and starting to leak. Touch up with a grinder and it doesn't look half bad.
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I've been using these for 40 years and they work great! I've made some nice looking radiator shrouds.
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Wait until your better half goes shopping and use the oven to pre-heat your parts. Thank me later 😂
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I hardly use these rods but must agree they're well worth having in the workshop. Recently used them to patch up a badly corroded ally boat part which would have been impossible to tig weld due to salt contamination, because the base metal isn't being melted which releases locked in contaminants (as in tig) this was the right choice.
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I've used this stuff too and i fond out that you can get it to stick better when you use a stainles scatching tool and scratch through the weld.. I was told that that is better because there is a oxidation layer on the aluminum and when you scratch through that the bonding is much better.... I even repaired an engineblock from a ZX7R('93) with it, and that is allready 7 years ago…… Awesome stuff!!
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5 years ago I used the Blue Demon aluminum brazing rod to make 3 small pieces of aluminum angle bar. Used it to secure the latch on two cedar garage doors (barn red) that I built for my garage. My wife was so proud of me. And I enjoyed your video. Thanks again. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
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The first video of this rod I found, they filled a hole in a coke can to show that the heat needed does not come close to melting the aluminum. Thanks for a great video.
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This rod works great to fix cast aluminum parts and even pot metal cast parts. Using fire blankets to keep the heat in works good, just wrap all the large areas with the fire blanket to insulate the piece and keep the heat from escaping.
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Agreed with the brick, alternatively a ceramic tile.
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I used this stuff to fill and seal a crack on a hmmwv 6.2l aluminum coolant crossover tube a few years ago. It's been holding very well with no leaks. I didn't even have to remove it from the engine. It's very easy to use this stuff.
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Thanks for this video! I've seen ads for this stuff, but I wasn't confident that it worked well until I saw something unbiased like this. Big help.
