Pat Barthelow wrote:
>AA6EG, Pat needs confirmation:
>
>I have been told that if you need to solder to alumium, using ordinary
>solder, and rosin flux, that it is possible to take an aluminum object, lay
>a small squeeze of motor oil on it, keeping the surface away from oxygen,
>and aggressively burnish the aluminum with a scraper, file, or other
>scraping tool...through the oil, keeping the newly burnished surface from
>developing a micro oxide coating. Then, taking a large soldering iron and
>some solder, heating the aluminum through the oil, and simultaneously
>applying your solder through the oil (which now, I am guessing is probably
>smoking (:-> )to the aluminum surface, and the solder will 'tin' the
>alumunum. Once tinned you can then solder to in conventionally.
>
>Can anyone confirm this technique?
>
>Tnx Pat Barthelow aaa6eg@hotmail.com
>
>
>
This is easy to test. Why don't you try it.
It doesn't work for me.
SOLDER-IT makes a paste they claim will allow you to solder to aluminum.
That doesn't work either.
Jerry, K4SAV
>
>
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