Yellow Tanks & Special Rods Re: [sdiy] Aluminum Solder

[May, Tony]

>Once here at the LA County Fair I bought an"Aluminum
>Welding Kit" that was a yellow butane type handheld torch tank
>with the high-heat burning gas mixture and what looked like a
>handfull of aluminum alloyish brazing bars.

>>Radio Shack used to sell a micro torch that used a combination of butane
>>and  some sort of "oxygen" using two little tanks that looked like CO2
>>cartridges used in pellet guns and bar bottles.  I don't know if it is
>>still available, or whether or not it can braze aluminum.

Last I checked, they still sell it. I have used a couple of them before. The Second cylinder they call Micronix and is Nitrous Oxide.