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Originally Posted by Zabco
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.
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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.