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I have asked for info from this forum on many occasions and got great advice, so thought I would put a little back!
Like me, I am sure, there is a need sometimes to make ally brackets to hold all those little important things we hang on our machine, and I for one don't own a tig welder, and even if I did, I would be useless at it! So, apart from the most simple bracket where you just bend some ally, it means a relatively expensive trip to an expert to fabricate said item or resort to rivets which are not nice looking or that strong!
But then I remembered that many years ago, I had the privilage of being involved in the import and sales of a rather economic and ingeneous little kit that made joining ally very easy, permanent and strong! I knew I had some old samples buried in my garage somewhere...so dug the last of my samples out last weekend!
Apart from Tig, the only other realistic way to join ally is solder, but that takes a lot of skill not to melt the ally ecpecially if differing thicknesses, which this does not, and believe me it works well!
The name we sold this under was 'Technoweld' and there are other derivatives like 'Lumiweld', some better than others. Problem is that most engineers do not take it seriously, because it can't be true - using a simple plumbers blowtorch to fuse ally together - rubbish! they cry! But actually it does work, fuses the metals together and lasts as long as any tig weld!
The only thing you have to remember is that the 'weld' is actually harder than the surrounding material (so you can use it to cage bolts as I have done) and you need to to paint the thing afterwards as the weld can corrode with prolonged (years) salt and water immersion as any zinc based material will, but painting does the trick!
Here are a couple of brackets I made to prove the point using simple 'plumbing techniques', and if anyone wants to get some you can probably find it on the internet, and you will not be disappointed! Last time I looked a kit with 5 rods, stanless brush for cleaning, and a stainless agitator (from 'breaking' the oxide layer under the molten weld)was around £15!! If you want more pointers on how to use it, how it works or its properties, jut pm me...and NO I don't sell it!
Wanted to make some wheel sensor brackets with some protection from flying stones etc so staring with some bent bits of ally I worked first on the racelogic sensor carriers for both front wheels.
Next bracket for the SPA Dash hall-effect sensor
Job done and painted -and holding both sensors nicely!
This stuff is amazing..provided you understand its limitations, |I know the ally will fail before the joint will - I have used this for years on many-many projects.
Hope you like! Any DIY guys can do this easily....even me!
Keith
Like me, I am sure, there is a need sometimes to make ally brackets to hold all those little important things we hang on our machine, and I for one don't own a tig welder, and even if I did, I would be useless at it! So, apart from the most simple bracket where you just bend some ally, it means a relatively expensive trip to an expert to fabricate said item or resort to rivets which are not nice looking or that strong!
But then I remembered that many years ago, I had the privilage of being involved in the import and sales of a rather economic and ingeneous little kit that made joining ally very easy, permanent and strong! I knew I had some old samples buried in my garage somewhere...so dug the last of my samples out last weekend!
Apart from Tig, the only other realistic way to join ally is solder, but that takes a lot of skill not to melt the ally ecpecially if differing thicknesses, which this does not, and believe me it works well!
The name we sold this under was 'Technoweld' and there are other derivatives like 'Lumiweld', some better than others. Problem is that most engineers do not take it seriously, because it can't be true - using a simple plumbers blowtorch to fuse ally together - rubbish! they cry! But actually it does work, fuses the metals together and lasts as long as any tig weld!
The only thing you have to remember is that the 'weld' is actually harder than the surrounding material (so you can use it to cage bolts as I have done) and you need to to paint the thing afterwards as the weld can corrode with prolonged (years) salt and water immersion as any zinc based material will, but painting does the trick!
Here are a couple of brackets I made to prove the point using simple 'plumbing techniques', and if anyone wants to get some you can probably find it on the internet, and you will not be disappointed! Last time I looked a kit with 5 rods, stanless brush for cleaning, and a stainless agitator (from 'breaking' the oxide layer under the molten weld)was around £15!! If you want more pointers on how to use it, how it works or its properties, jut pm me...and NO I don't sell it!
Wanted to make some wheel sensor brackets with some protection from flying stones etc so staring with some bent bits of ally I worked first on the racelogic sensor carriers for both front wheels.
Next bracket for the SPA Dash hall-effect sensor
Job done and painted -and holding both sensors nicely!
This stuff is amazing..provided you understand its limitations, |I know the ally will fail before the joint will - I have used this for years on many-many projects.
Hope you like! Any DIY guys can do this easily....even me!
Keith
Edited by V8 Vum on Tuesday 6th July 09:10
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