Aluminium welding rods...

[Douglas Frank]

Gerard wrote:
> 
> ...had a look at the following website:
> http://www.alumiweldsa.20m.com/.
> 
> As I know just about nothing about the strength of welds and so on,

OK all you experts, how's this:

The advertised tensile strength is 326 MPa-- would that be mega
Pascals?
If so (and why isn't it expressed in N/mm?), it's just over 40K
psi, which isn't all that strong.  The working temperature
(380-390C) isn't even in the brazing range, so this is a
soldering process, not welding (which involves melting the base
metal). 

my 2 pfennigs, anyhoo
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