Delboy's Garage, "Aluminium Welding" ?

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] right good morning welcome back okay their words Garrard supplemental gonna do something a little bit different today as the title says aluminium welding question mark and what on a show today is something I've found that I want to find out if it's aluminium welding or if it's a bit of a fraud or if it's just a substitute that I can actually use what it is is flux-cored low melting point aluminium welding rods or brazing rods to be given the exact description so I've bought a pack I've thrown 30 quid up the road to see if they work I've got some test pieces I'm gonna cut and I'm gonna see if I can actually weld join braze solder whatever happens to pieces of aluminium together because if I can then this project takes on a whole new world of possibilities if I can bring you some amazing stuff that I wouldn't have been able to do that's if I can master it which I may not but there we are today's a little test aluminium brazing rods I'll show you the product I bought and we'll do some tests to see if I can get the hang of it and see if it actually works get the hammer so if we can break things once we've joined them so let's get stuck in wish me luck [Music] right okay is the first of these kind of videos I'm not going to do a massive amount of these I want to get on with a project but when I saw this stuff I was amazed and I thought I know what adverts can be like they'll tell you it does wondrous things so before I go getting involved and commit in my project to it I would like to check if they actually work and I'll show you what it is first of all it's not welding for what it's worth that's why I put the question mark in the title here Welding would infer that the metal itself the two pieces of metal are fused together by melting them together that's practically what welding is you melt the two pieces of metal into one this doesn't do that it sticks them together like brazing or soldering the braze of the solder seeps into the pores of the metal and makes a seriously strong glue type bond but it's never going to be as strong as welding which is what may be skeptical because all the claims this information tell me that it is one of the claims that really intrigued me was stronger than the parent metal well that sounds very advert like so I want to check that's true I'm gonna do a few little tests here I'm sure you might sing this online I'll show what actually is it's called terrific's AZ weld three-in-one rod and it gives a full set of instructions claims to be easy step-by-step you brush in preparation you heat up the piece and then you flow this solder or aluminium welding rod in it now it's flux cord which tells me that the flux lives within there I don't need to put separate flux powder on it so that makes it easier to use a very low melting point seven hundred and thirty degrees Fahrenheit working temperature which means you heat up the job itself not the rod because that will melt straight away and roll off the surface it sounds very much like soldering or brazing so what I want to do is check it out for myself I'm gonna follow the instructions to the letter and then see afterwards by testing it the good old fashioned test with tools to see if I can break it break apart the joints that they tell me should be stronger than the parent metal and see as long as I follow the instructions whether actually it works right first thing to try would just be a straightforward butt joint in a piece of very thin one and a half mil sheet mainly because that's what I am hoping to do with it in my project that bodywork that I'm rolling out if I can join those pieces of aluminium together oh my goodness the possibilities are endless so this is the one I'm really most excited to do I'm gonna put it in the vise I'm gonna use my little vise rather than the big vise because when you're heating up a piece of metal that has to get to a certain temperature if you put it in a good big five stone vise this stuff especially aluminium that acts as a fantastic heat sink it just bleeds the heat straight into that fat piece of cast iron that is the vise so if you use a small thin vise any heat that goes into it it's not going to suck too much heat it's not going to wick too much heat out of the piece so it should be quicker to warm up the metal in a small vise and I'm going to do as well it is this old noggin or timber in between hopefully not set fire to it so that it holds them and only one side of the metal is touching the vise in the hope that I'm insulating it a little bit now I should probably be using a piece of fire brick but basic principles basic principles the same use something that prevents the heat that you're trying to put into the job from bleeding into its surrounding support items that's what I've seen people doing that's online using big fat cast iron G cramps and clamps on everything and then heating it up in there demo videos and complaining it takes so long to heat up piece of aluminium thin sheet should heat up to 700 degrees in about 30 seconds but they take in four minutes to heat it up because they're heating their voice at the same time so think about it anyway let's get it bent into shape let's make a little chest piece I try that butt joint because that's the most exciting one I want to do today right there we are joint prepared trick to any welding is a good tight close fitting joint all the way down and as clean as you can possibly get it now in with the kit you get from weld UK you get this little stainless steel brush a little tiny thing and that's extremely sharp I wondered why stainless steel I've got a drawer full of wire brushes what kind of tissues none of em most of them and brass coated regular mild steel wire and they're good for weld cleaning up welds and stuff but this is a stainless steel brush and it's particularly sharp and looking at it and what it does to the metal I can see that what it does is rubs off the oxidization anything that's on there not just paint and finishes like that that's a given obviously but we're rubbing out the actual surface of the metal and scuffing it up and score in it because this stuff it doesn't melt these two pieces of metal together they don't blend at a metallurgical level into one piece because the melt point of aluminium Zoar is at twelve hundred and something degrees and these melt at seven thirty so they're every only ever going to sit on the top of the metal or hopefully ingress into the pores of the metal so it tells me so clean with your little stainless steel brush you don't need to give it the bejesus just a little light scuff take the surface off so it's kind of a matte finish got a nice joint that's nice and clean I'm gonna go just a tiny bit further a little bit of acetone if you see the guys doing TIG welding they always use acetone to clean up the metal before they willed it so they're more clean you can get it the better every little helps there we go that's now as clean as can be let's get the torch sparked up and get going and the tool for this is a standard home do DIY propane torch s all you need to get it up to seven hundred and thirty degrees this should be easy enough in it let's give it government okay that's the first bit now but welding two pieces of metal together with some solder or braze on the surface is about as bad as it gets about a week as it's likely to be so let's see now let's just take that out let it cool off that's the first bit now the second one I want to join something together it's a bit thicker a little bit of angular Lee I've cut it ivied out the joint as you do if you just join anything thicker if you're going to weld anything thick you cut a little V between the two phases so they're not a butt joint and then that allows the weld to drop into that joint so it gives it a little bit better a chance to stick so I'm gonna put these in the vise again I'm gonna heat them up and see if I can lay some of this aluminium solder down in that joint and join these two pieces of angle together and when we've done an array of different things we get the hammers and the tools out and sniffing start destroying it that's my favorite bit right the second piece I think he says in the instructions before I pull that out the vice to let it cool yeah let it cool down for at least a minute so we'll give that a minute to cool off take out the vise rig up the next little piece to join because the next one's quite interesting this is the one where you see them on the videos sealing up the bottom of a coke can they punch a hole in the bottom of a coke can that's super thin what is that 30 gauge and they just seal it up with this now I haven't got coke can to do that with but I've got some allen menu with holes in that I drilled a couple more holes in here set that up and then we'll see if we can fill holes in because that has an amazing use for sealing things like splits in tanks we'll set the next one [Applause] [Applause] I like that how quick was that imagine the possibilities if that turns out to be strong and resilient with things like sealing up holes that you don't need in an aluminium expansion tank imagine the possibilities have been able to make an aluminium expansion tank for my bike now that will be cool it's still got the passed the test yet so let's put it with the others and do one more test this time I want to take a piece of angle Allie quite thick 3 fórmula thick another piece it's about 5 mil thick and I want to weld it on there now this is to see whether you could make a frame with this method initially I would think not on your life because there's nowhere near strong enough for frame welding but let's see how strong it actually is because once it's done I can start the fun bit hitting it with hammers let's get the last one done then we can start the tests [Music] right okay that can that concludes five test pieces let's see how strong it is so now that's pretty cold we did that one last we'll start hitting these with tools and see how strong it actually is and if the claims that up that's pretty impressive because straight away that tells me that if I join two pieces of metal together to then go in the English wheel and curve I've got off a chance hasn't broken apart but going there is you can't snap it in half if you've hammered it so first one okay you can hammer it and it doesn't bounce off second one is this this is the little butt joint that I made first of all today it's again same sort of but join I want to just simply Bend that because it claims in the instructions that it's stronger than the parent metal and in the videos you see online you see someone with a pair of pliers bending a piece of diamond plate right over and the joint stays in one piece and let's see if it actually happens now it's coming off there just get all of that and pull it okay you ain't going anywhere and see that this is work hardening and slowly getting weaker it's definitely gonna break there it is and that is broken not quite on the join that little bit stayed on their next test there's a little piece of angle that I joined along the inside on a V it penetrated right through at one point and dripped out the bottom so can't say it ain't penetrated so let's poke that in the vise see how it gets on with a hammer it's in it [Music] and how often are you going to put any joint that you've put together through that much punishment I'm quite impressed by that actually quite impressed indeed that's number three now number four is this I filled all these little holes with this stuff this aluminium brazing rod and the tests online the other videos are watch see people with Center punches going at it and trying to go through there and bending the metal around it and I can I can obviously see it's filled them up I want to see how I can file them flat first though because you're not going to fill it up and leave it like that you don't want to grow in that flat so to give it a little bit more work to do I'm gonna file a cup of these completely flush so that actually the weld is just in the hole only like a plug world and then you'd be able to sand it and polish it and it would not be there at all or do you have to leave it on the surface as a puddle in order to grip that I think is a better test than just send a punch in it so let's do that right okay so it seems that if you scuff off the surface it's not so strong you can punch it through if you leave it on there though you can beat it all you like so it acts quite well if the surface area is left in place but if you need to grind it flat well that's not going to work where perhaps after TIG weld it instead but it's great fulfilling little cracks in and splits and damages and bodywork I have to stress at this point I would never ever ever do a petrol tank with that method of sealing because it just isn't safe I would definitely get a proper proficient experienced qualified TIG welder to TIG weld a petrol tank properly and even then I'd still want it pressure tested afterwards to make sure it's safe but if it's perhaps an expansion tank for your coolant you could use it for that maybe that's not a pressurized container normally so if it isn't a pressurized one lot high boost it's not just an overflow and it floods back in there's no pressure in it but it's still coolant and if it leaks on the road that's still dangerous so ultimately would you use it for any liquid container I don't know perhaps a coffee mug but there we are for sealing a little hole or a crack or a split in something where you need it to go across a gap it does it and it does it well and it's strong ish now finally this piece now I kind of like that can't happy with that I was thinking it'd make a good coat hanger for my coat that keeps falling off the wall but I'm gonna have to try and destroy it you know that that's what it did it for I made a lovely job of those joints it seems to control nicely in that 90 degree joint it sits there really well getting it hot enough is all-important as you saw it flows nicely and that is now as good as I can possibly make it in certainly with my meager experience the first day doing this I don't think I could have done that any better so let's see how strong that is in the vise with the hitting stick which my word and blimey now that is a 2-pound enforcer and that was the kind of impact that would definitely pop a ball-joint on a car so that's impressive seriously impressive it appears that if you get the joint really right and you really take your time to get it perfectly spotlessly clean put a nice v in the joint get it right up the temperature which is seven hundred and thirty degrees so just take the time to let it warm right up once it's preheated get that stuff in there nice and thick layer it in let it cool down and it's strong now I'm really impressed with that but this is about tests so I'm going to see just exactly how difficult is to rip that off there I'm quite sure my 2-pound friend can do it okay that's buggered up all over the place and that's actually bent the box section but it has according to the instructions that say it's stronger than the parent metal well it wasn't the parent metal did give a little but this is just ripped away it's left some I'll give you a better look it's left some on the part there and it's left a lot on there so in conclusion let's clear this up first okay in conclusion seriously impressed with these now I'm sure there are other mics I got dura fix which I think are in Spain and the company weld UK wants obvious where they are and that's what they produce that product once again you get the little stainless steel wire brush essential you can probably buy them everywhere anywhere all over but wire brush stainless important that comes with a kit if you call it that and these rods that's on a stress again they're normally they're advertised at that 45 centimeters long that's one rod and I paid three pounds each but for them so it's ten rods 30 quid you can get them a lot cheaper now seeing them for sale from China for three pence each probably not these I imagine that who knows I'm definitely to use them I love the whole concept of being able to join aluminium together that's non critical doesn't matter won't hold fluids and I can afford to do again because there's a couple of faults with this not false there's a couple of Achilles heels with this one of them though isn't weakness I was seriously impressed with that as you saw that took a baseball bat stance about nine hits with a two pound enforcer and eventually I got it to sheer now that's why you could never use it on a motorcycle frame because although the hammer and the baseball bat stance is possibly impressive it's absolutely nothing compared to the impact and the forces placed upon the motorcycle frame so please please please ever even consider using something like this it's a world about soccer frame even to weld a subframe because if you consider it the force is playing on a motorcycle frame are colossal even compared to that ham I swung by me it makes no difference it will just collapse and fall apart and you will get hurt so don't go using it when your bike frame but for non-critical stuff stuff like the bodywork that is just gonna be panels side panels tail panels nose cone front fairing I can make it now in pieces I can roll in the English wheel the pieces of the front fairing I want to make a kind of Rickman Matisse style nose cone maybe that's what's up here what actually comes out of these will be different but there you go but I can make it in pieces and weld it together what you can do with that which I haven't done today is you can overlap the world you could then drill the top one and you could plug weld in them to increase the joint also if you flow that stuff between the two pieces then stick it together you get a massive surface area so that's gonna be good too so there's all kinds of ways to do it and it's rat rod so if it looks a bit patched together in Frankenstein then all about anyway today that proven happy days really like it I want to stress again don't even consider using it on fuel tanks ever for any reason that would be highly dangerous use a proper TIG welder who knows what they're doing and that isn't me and get them pressure tested afterwards so that brings me to the last thing I will take up aluminium welding I will get a machine eventually in the last six to eight weeks since we started this move it's been nothing but that money money money out out out we've just paid for everything right down to everything you see here pretty much that's the money from our patrons thank you so much that a patron family to everybody that has donated and supports what we do including the company so thank you for everything it's put us where we are today but so you still go out and shelling out big machines it isn't just the TIG machine they're actually not that expensive it's another bottle of gas because the MIG welding gas is different so I'll need two bottles I guess I would also like an oxy-acetylene set up but that's through tests for bottles then because you need the oxygen and the acetylene and of course that's then the trolley and all the stuff so it goes on and on and I will get those things as time goes on because I want to expand improve this channel anyway today was just a simple test on this aluminium welding stuff I absolutely love it I'm really impressed and I will be using it in my project so that's it for today thank you for watching what do you think of it comments underneath take it easy ride safe we'll see you next time [Music]

Channel: Delboy's Garage

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Keywords: Delboy's Garage, Aluminium Welding, Brazing, Soldering, Forgeing, Metal fabrication, yt:quality=high

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Length: 26min 12sec (1572 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 08 2019