Re: Anyone seen the commercial for a kind of aluminum weld/repair?
I use Alumiweld quite a bit, most recently to repair a chunk missing out of my prop which it did very well. I've used it for all sorts of stuff, repairing aluminium castings, fabricating sheet aluminium parts etc...<br />The stuff they sell now is very easy to use, it was reformulated a few years ago and is now much easier to use than the original.<br />The key is heat, you can use a propane torch and I suggest you do, as although an oxy-acetylene torch also works well it's too easy to melt a hole in whatever you're trying to repair! If using propane though it needs to be a big enough torch to apply a lot of heat over a wider area than just the joint, a little flame won't do any good as the heat dissipates too quickly.They tell you to heat the whole workpiece to working temperature but in my experience that's not usually neccessary.
