Re: [CR] Need derailleur repair advice

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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:17:27 -0400
To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] Need derailleur repair advice
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At 02:27 PM 8/8/06 -0700, dddd wrote:
>Silver-solder can be used on aluminum without melting the part
>however.

Really? What flux would you use? I've used silver solder to repair gold jewellery using regular Handy Flux and it would be great to be able to silver solder aluminum. I have some low temperature aluminum welding rod I once bought at a trade show where the salesman was using it to weld aluminum beer cans with a propane torch. I tried welding a broken skeg back onto an outboard motor with it, but it snapped off the first time it got stuck in the sand.

John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net>
Woodstock, ON Canada