Re: Aluminum solder source?

In article <1150974253.847279.4640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Glenn" <glenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ernie Leimkuhler wrote:
In article <4496ea37$0$65477$742ec2ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
steamer <steamer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

--Well I spent the weekend eatin' mud bugs at the Isleton Crawdad
Festival; lotsa beautiful mobile iron, mostly Harleys, etc. Sadly the guy
who is usually there with a booth torching that goop onto the bottom of
soda
cans didn't make it. I've decided it would be fun to play around with
this
stuff but it's nowhere local. Does anyone know the exact name of that rod
and where I can get some? Thanks,

Any welding supplier can order it.
UTP sells a version that I have been demoing to my students for years.
Useful stuff if you just need to plug a hole in an aluminum boat or gas
tank.

It has too much zinc in it to have any kind of ductility, so you want to
make sure your joint design doesn't allow the part to flex.

Hmm, a few posts say this solder is high tin content. The data I have
seen for
Alu solder says high lead (80.1% lead, 18% tin, 1.8% silver). Take a
look at

http://www.prime-electronics.com.au/multicorepl.htm

Are there two types?

Cheers
Glenn
Welding Instructor - South Seattle Comm. Coll.
- Divers Institute of Technology
CWI/CWE
WABO Examiner

The cheap "miracle rod" fluxless aluminum solders sold at flea-markets
are an aluminum/zinc alloy.

--
Welding Instructor - South Seattle Comm. Coll.
- Divers Institute of Technology
CWI/CWE
WABO Examiner
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