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Reviewed in Canada on June 5, 2024
I think a lot of the confusion with these types of aluminum brazing/soldering rods are people think they are welding rods. They're not.Firstly the technique has more in common with soldering copper and or other materials. Where it differs is in the surface preparation. There are some informative YouTube videos that explain it well.Briefly, I'd advise to clean the brazed areas with a stainless steel wire brush, or similar, and clean with acetone immediately before you make the braze. If you do that, you'll get good results.These rods work for that job. It is definitely not a welded connection, but if you plan things our right, it can be quite strong.
Icedragn
Reviewed in Canada on June 11, 2024
These were easy enough to use after cleaning up the cracks and dents/holes and then thoroughly heating up with a mapp torch. Seemed to melt ok and fill in the cracks on my 14ft skiff. I'm not sure how strong it is, but the leaks are fixed. I wasn't worried about strength or breaking in the first place, but at least I don't have to bail water anymore!
Abdo A.
Reviewed in Canada on May 26, 2024
not good
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on November 17, 2024
Base metal melted before the rod would flow onto it, so there is no way to actually braze with these. Trying to melt the rods onto hot base metal results in globs on top, with no flow out. Tried it with flux, and same result... Glad I tried it on a test piece before I tried it on my project. Waste of time and money - avoid.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on November 11, 2024
This is NOT a low temperature brazing rod. I would guess that it is an aluminum rod because just as it was finally starting to melt, The piece of aluminum I was testing it on melted and sagged. It took for ever with a good propane torch to get it to melt. I had to heat it so much it discolored. The temp should be way lower than the melting point of the parent material. I am just glad I tested it on a scrap piece of Aluminum before wrecking my engine case.
Medina
Reviewed in the United States on November 20, 2023
You should be able to melt these super thin rods with mapp gas but I hated the metal up for over 10 minutes (map is hotter than propane gases) and they do not melt.
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