

| Subject: | Silver solder? |
| Date: | Wed, 7 Jun 95 22:28:34 EDT |
Well, I got one of those technical questions and it's not really
VW related but I figure with the wealth of knowlege out there,
I'd seek opinions. Now the reason I'm doing this is not important
but I need to affix a 1/8" hex key to a strip of body thickness
sheet steel, as shown below. I don't figure I could MIG weld it
even at low low power, I just tried to silver solder them together,
I sanded the surface shiny, cleaned with degreaser and acid, fluxed
well and the solder will only wet the surface in small dots here
and there. I tried regular tin/lead solder as well but wanted the
higher strength of tin/silver. Any opinions, I can braze fairly
well and might see how small of a brazing rod I can find but that
requires a lot of heat. Ideally I'd like to spot weld it with
mini spot welds in a couple of locations, figure discharging a
couple thousand microfarad capacitor off a big 20-30 watt 24V power
supply might do the trick? Anybody got any ideas in general?
Thanks
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^strip of sheet metal (1/2" wide, 1/32" or so thick)
John
ja@coe.wvu.edu
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