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Old 10-30-2014 | 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by KI8FR
I was going to try weling up a muffler with Alumioweld. It has a melting point of 715F. That was the idea I had. I am going to try to test it and see if it will work just for fun. I mite put cooling fens on it to see if it will keep it below that.
Should be fun to try..
I tried some of those low temp aluminum brazing / soldering materials without success. Had trouble fixturing the muffler during assembly as aluminum conducts heat so well it was easy to disassemble previous welds doing the next weld. Once assembled, welds quickly failed. When I work with aluminum these days, I just have it TIG welded by a pro and the cost is still less than a commercial product. Maybe you will have better luck than I did.

Steel is much easier to work with and is easily welded with an oxy / acetyl torch using steel filler rod. When I can find it, I'll post a photo of one muffler I made for a scale Zero.