At 11:48 AM 07/05/2007 -0400, oroboyz@aol.com wrote:
> I haven't seen the ads lately but does anyone remeber those low
temperature aluminum like repair sticks that were on TV and at various
public expos a few years back? I imagined that that stuff might serve this
fill-in-and-retap role.
>
> But that stuff looked too good to be true so I always presumed there was
some not-so-hot aspect that doesn't appear in the persuasive presentations.
>
I once saw a demo at an industrial show where a guy welded beer cans with a special aluminum rod using a "turbo" propane torch. I bought some and a torch tip (which has been very useful over the years) and attempted to weld a broken skeg onto an outboard motor. Of course, it broke off right away. I still have a stack of the rods, but have never tried hard enough to try and repair anything else.
However, someone here posted a website showing something similar and a lot
more, which does look interesting. There are lots of examples and videos.
http://www.muggyweld.com/
John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada