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Old 11-25-2024, 06:44 PM
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Default Re: TH407C Telehandler 1:14 scale

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Originally Posted by Zabco View Post
Always wondered how well those little tig machines could do brass. I use a lot of brass but have always silver soldered it. Have you ever tried it with aluminum? Happy holidays.
Best result with brass would be some weld beads to fixture, then flow the solder over it for more strength imo. Decorative welded brass has been fine.

I had terrible results with aluminum. Tried all kinds of alloys and a couple filler materials. Dialed settings every which way. It has a setting for aluminum so I figured it would be easy. I gave up all together.

Brass and silver solder is tried and true. In a way the nice solder wicking and resulting shape is the most scale result. Fixturing was always hard for me, so I swapped to carbon steel so I could use magnets to align. Worked fine, but I'd usually accidentally solder the magnets to me workpiece. So much time spent waiting for things to cool after one joint made.
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