I'm lucky in the fact I have a friend close by that races super
modifieds and can gas weld anything! I have tried and tried and even
have the good lens and still make it look like big bird left a deposit.
For more info on welding aluminum try www.tinmantech.com
Doug Odom in big ditch
Keith Turk wrote:
>I'd met a fella in Australia last year and he is a master fabricator in
>Aluminum... Rod Tingate showed me all these pictures of custom motorcycle
>fairing's and tanks he'd build as a fabricator for Formula 1 motorcycle teams
>in Europe... Naturally I was drooling all over the pic's...
>
>He came to Bonneville this year and has come down to Southern Alabama to hang
>out as part of his month long tour of the US... LUCKY me... Yesterday we sat
>down at my welding bench and I got a few lessons in aluminum fabrication...
>all I can say is that I'm totally humbled... He sorted out my gear... used
>some aluminum brazing flux we mixed with water and then did some incredible
>welding right here in my shop... No rods... just 3/16 strips of the original
>aluminum sheet cut on a shear... then we mixed up the Harris powder into a
>paste... painted it on and proceeded to do some of the most incredible welding
>I've ever seen... Perfect penetration... along with leaving the aluminum
>totally malleable.. or dead soft when we were thru... he said that it
>automatically re-hardens itself in just a few weeks... but in the mean time to
>can form the stuff without breaking or dealing with the brittleness of Tig'd
>aluminum...
>
>If your into welding... snatch that gas set up out of the corner... snag some
>powered aluminum brazing flux from your local welding supply... turn the flame
>until the tip is to soft...( carburizing )... or 3/16ths off of a sharp tip...
>listen for the right hiss... and have at it... you'll be amazed... stuff was
>very easy to see thru my autodarkening helmet...( I'd like to have those fancy
>glasses .. but it worked ) Rod actually simply used a dark set of glasses I
>have here...
>
>Fun stuff... what a lesson
>
>Keith
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