HTS-2000 - This is some cool stuff!!!
 

Pretty neat:

I've seen similar before. Being marketed as Alumaloy. Ebay sellers seem to reference both names... I wonder if any are legit.

I've always been tempted to try it.

Damn. Now all I need is some of that rod, a torch that'll heat up aluminum to 730*, a beer gut, redneck accent, and a piece of aluminum to weld.

I have a steel gas tank that I would love to use something like that on. The only problem is I don't know where to get something like that for steel.

Seems really cool, but I've never had a huge hole in anything aluminum.

dont try to use that on anything hot though...

One of the videos showed the guy repairing a crack in a cylinder head between the combustion chambers... that wouldn't work would it??

probably not. im pretty sure its a marketing thing :)

Oh my god I need this for a pinhole leak in my AC line.

Buying now, will report back.

it would be fucking perfect for making custom intake manifolds and intercooler piping!

YUS!!! WANT!!
Totally a temporary solution to my broke ass lacking possession of a tig welder!

This. Someone try to make a custom manifold using this stuff.

As well as putting mounting brackets on an intercooler itself.

Shit does not like to be drilled at all. Its neat stuff, but its low melting point would be its downfall.

my $299 mig welder will weld aluminum... just need the wire and gas.

And probably a spool gun. And then headaches from dealing with that all not working like a legit TIG unit :p

cool.

A spool gun would help, but just running a new liner and keeping the feed as straight as possible yielded "ok" results and not too many birdsnests.

I really want to give this a try someday soon.


Anyway, I have a bundle of this aluminum braizing rod in the garage. I really should test this out one of these days. My buddy has an acetylene torch I can use which will get anything hot enough. My other buddy has 10-12 cracked E30 oil pans that would be neat to try and fix with this stuff.

I looked it up and it was $2 per rod (I think you had to buy $50 worth).

I need something like this that will work on steel. I have a bike gas tank that needs repaired.

My friend had one repaired locally for his 68' 2002 and said they soldered it. I'm sure its a special solder but call a radiator shop and ask them what they use.

I am correct in saying that you can't weld up holes in used aluminum A/C lines, correct? I'm told it acts like pot metal.

This is a really old thread, but since I have an answer to this exact question ... the answer is no way. I tried to repair a pinhole leak on the AC line of my A6 with some of these brazing rods and failed miserably. As soon as you get the area hot enough to melt the brazing alloy the thin wall tube blows out. I tried to do a slip joint type thing with a larger diameter tube as well and that didn't work out either. I ended up spending like $300 at the audi dealer for a stupid piece of tube because I couldn't make this work. (Epoxy, not surprisingly, did not last long.)

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I love how is still has his button up shirt on even under water.

Nice timing. I tried it on one of my high pressure lines not too long ago it it worked similarly to yours. I jbwelded a rubber hose around the line in that spot. It is holding fine for now.

I've use these rods. Bought them cheap at a hunting show, so I figured to give them a shot. Repaired a severely pitted/erroded (from battery acid) lower end on a Kohler twin 18HP mower engine about 8 years ago, and it has held up well. It leaked oil badly before, and it's all sealed up now.

I used it to weld up hoops from aluminum strips (for wheel rims) and they are impossible to get back apart except by reheating. They haven't seen much use, though.

I've used these on my build for intake piping. I used MAPP gas. Worked so-so. Really tough to control the heat so you avoid melting the aluminum. It is a skill -- the connections I made later in the project were much better. Should have practiced more before starting on my actual parts.

It really works well if the aluminum you're working with has some mass to help control the heat. The video examples showed cylinder heads and alternator housings. That would work well. Also works well on cast aluminum outdoor furniture.

One of the video examples showed it being used on a soda can. That's just a skilled operator showing off.

Oh, and just like welding aluminum . . . cleanliness is next to godliness. This stuff hates contamination.

mighty tape at walmart is cheaper then silicone tape at the hardware store

I ended up using this stuff on a piece of cast aluminum. We could not get it hot enough with mapp gas to get it to work but an acetylene torch did the trick. When we tried to break the joint by hammering on it in a vice the metal broke in a different spot, the brazed part was fine.