Re: Hts 2000
I agree with Bob, for for hull repairs it's not the best solution. Difficult to work with on a boat and don't know how it would affect the hull, repair too strong, not strong enough... If you are using it like in the video's, that's easy, but there are a lot of applications where it can (will?) be difficult.
I've used Durafix and thought it was a bit difficult to work with, for what I was doing. You have to SS wire brush the pieces, which wasn't possible for my intended repair so I couldn't use it for that.
I was able to braze some zinc plated nuts onto an aluminum fishing rod holder base (backing nut) which I thought was pretty cool, but I had my fair share of problems doing it, mainly keeping the piece perfectly level so the melted rod wouldn't flow down hill. The stuff runs like water once it melts, then goes immediately to a solid while it cools, very little temp range between liquid and solid. Try to braze something vertical and the stuff will run off, even if at a bit of an angle it will flow down hill.
I don't know if it will "wick" into joints, but from the work I did, it didn't. To braze the nut>aluminum plate I had to pre-tin (if that's the right word) the mating surfaces, then melt them together. Kind of a bummer there isn't some type of flux that will clean and help pull the material into the repair.