[sdiy] Aluminium Solder

[Machinerygod]

Friday, September 27, 2002, 10:33:35 PM, you wrote:

> Anyway, I'm wondering if some kind of gass welding set up might in fact be 
> better. Though I'm thinking primarily of fairly small work. Terry brought 
> up the fact that you have to have welding goggles etc with arc welding. And 
> I remember people saying how difficult it was to do intricate work under 
> such circumstances.

It is fairly difficult to do intricate work through welding goggles. I
recommend an LCD facemask. It's a welding mask with an LCD screen that
you look through and a photodiode or something that triggers circuitry
to blank the display when it sees light. So the facemask is clear
except for when you're actually running an arc.

Doing intricate work would be very difficult with a gas welder, I
think. unless you had some very specialized tips to narrow the flame
down.

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