Welding Pot Metal

[deereman75]

I looked on the harris website, and I couldnt find a word about welco 52 (or anything 52), I wonder if they stopped making it. The only aluminum brazing things they list are Cor-Al, Al-Braze 1070, and ALCoR.

 

[Soundguy]

http://www.e-harris.ru/harris/files/catalogue/776.pdf

http://www.stoodyind.com/Catalogs/FISC/current/05catpg373.pdf

found the msds at harris, and the product at stoody.

a lil aluminum, a lil copper, and alotta zinc....

soundguy

 

[yomax4]

Lincoln Electric bought Harris and discontinued a ton of household named products. I suppose 52 was one of them. Cor-Al is a Nasty flux cored rod ok for fixing small holes but the flux used to eat the shelf the rod sat on. You could never get it flushed good enough to prevent it from eating itself. Al-braze 1070 is solder that will join any metal to any metal at 1070 degrees. people freaked out seeing stainless or copper soldered to aluminum at shows. Marginal product but cool at shows. AlCor is cool for joining all but the 60 series aluminum. It has a flux core and flows like water and is very strong. I like the stuff on the right material. It turns liquidous at 780 degrees so you can use a Turbo Torch or lessor quality propane type torch.If anyone wants to try a stick or 2 of 52 I would be ok to send it out. I have a bunch and doubt I will every use it. I actually have a bunch of AlCor too but would have to have a few bucks for a tub.

 

[yomax4]

http://www.e-harris.ru/harris/files/catalogue/776.pdf

http://www.stoodyind.com/Catalogs/FISC/current/05catpg373.pdf

found the msds at harris, and the product at stoody.

a lil aluminum, a lil copper, and alotta zinc....

soundguy

There it is... See above..You "can" repair Pot Metal.. Funny how the 120 is listed as a welco product. I remeber going to school at MG and they had a 120 that was for aluminum and pot metal with the same #10 flux as welco 1070..my point is so many companies make products for each other it's difficult to know what comes from where. Harris used to draw Silver Solder for Lucas Millhoft and Wolverine and they would all compete for the same business. That was the nice thing about being a Harris Salesman. You could offer better pricing. Same with Hyperthem offering Miller a 20 year old Plasma torch to use on their Plasma Cutters ( some say made by Hypertherm ) So that they could have Auto Link on the Plasmas. It's all just business and most have no idea what goes on behind the scenes.