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Title: Help all you welders
Post by: guest40 on December 29, 2009, 05:49:31 AM

I have unfortunately punctured my radiator on the Honda Silverwing. It looks like some sort of aluminium alloy but I am no expert in this as it could also be some sort of plating over the copper or base metal. The dull silver sheen almost looks like a galvanised finish. I was hoping to silver solder over the puncture, or use some of that metal based bog.

Any ideas would be welcome.
Thanks

Title: Re: Help all you welders
Post by: johnr on January 04, 2010, 01:07:33 AM

im fairly sure its an ally rad on the silverwing. try scraping the metal with a knife, to see if its tinned copper or brass, but im fairly sure its ally. you tried that lumiweld stuff, its a bit like a solder for aluminium, ok, its not really a solder, talking in a purely metalurgical sense, but it can be used like a solder to seal holes, build up threads etc.