I don't normally advertise a product... but it seems people with aluminum engine blocks, aluminum mounting brackets and aluminum bikes, etc... need to know about this stuff.
HTS-2000 is low-temperature braising material for Aluminum. I've used it. And it works like you won't believe. I did a search on this forum and only found one obscure mention of it in one thread. This stuff is just to good to be hidden away.
It's not cheap... $65 for a pound plus shipping, but you don't usually need much of it anyway. The beauty of the stuff is you can weld small aluminum parts with a Mapp Gass torch. It melts around 750 degrees F... well below that of Aluminum (1300 degrees aprox). And the repairs YOU can make are likely stronger than a professional aluminum welder! I've repaired broken aluminum welds in our shop with this stuff and it just works! You can even rebuild broken mounting tabs or bosses that are stronger than the original part.
It can be tapped or even molded around steel threads. It's just amazing stuff.
There is a video of it on their website. Take a look and file this information away in your bag of tricks next time you are having trouble with your aluminum engine.
What brought this to mind was a thread that was just started talking about how the mounting threads were pulled out of the engine block of an engine. They're talking about filling it with JB weld and re-tapping it.
Well this stuff would give them stronger threads than were originally there.
To use it you "tin" both parts and then stick them together adding a bit more material. It's a bit clumpy and certainly not as pretty (when I do it) as a good aluminum welder but I can take a hammer to a couple of half inch pieces of aluminum and beat the crud out of it and the weld just doesn't break. I bend the aluminum all over the place but the weld is secure.
Imagine being able to put a mounting boss on the side of your engine block where there never was one before! It teases the imagination doesn't it!
Larger welds or thick aluminum parts (such as engine blocks) may require more heat than a Mapp gas torch can provide. For those repairs you may need acetaline.
Here's the website:
http://www.aluminumrepair.com/index.asp
You've got to use it to believe it. I've done a lot of demos at my house for my friends.
Happy motoring!
Ross
HTS-2000 is low-temperature braising material for Aluminum. I've used it. And it works like you won't believe. I did a search on this forum and only found one obscure mention of it in one thread. This stuff is just to good to be hidden away.
It's not cheap... $65 for a pound plus shipping, but you don't usually need much of it anyway. The beauty of the stuff is you can weld small aluminum parts with a Mapp Gass torch. It melts around 750 degrees F... well below that of Aluminum (1300 degrees aprox). And the repairs YOU can make are likely stronger than a professional aluminum welder! I've repaired broken aluminum welds in our shop with this stuff and it just works! You can even rebuild broken mounting tabs or bosses that are stronger than the original part.
It can be tapped or even molded around steel threads. It's just amazing stuff.
There is a video of it on their website. Take a look and file this information away in your bag of tricks next time you are having trouble with your aluminum engine.
What brought this to mind was a thread that was just started talking about how the mounting threads were pulled out of the engine block of an engine. They're talking about filling it with JB weld and re-tapping it.
Well this stuff would give them stronger threads than were originally there.
To use it you "tin" both parts and then stick them together adding a bit more material. It's a bit clumpy and certainly not as pretty (when I do it) as a good aluminum welder but I can take a hammer to a couple of half inch pieces of aluminum and beat the crud out of it and the weld just doesn't break. I bend the aluminum all over the place but the weld is secure.
Imagine being able to put a mounting boss on the side of your engine block where there never was one before! It teases the imagination doesn't it!
Larger welds or thick aluminum parts (such as engine blocks) may require more heat than a Mapp gas torch can provide. For those repairs you may need acetaline.
Here's the website:
http://www.aluminumrepair.com/index.asp
You've got to use it to believe it. I've done a lot of demos at my house for my friends.
Happy motoring!
Ross
