aluminum tubing?

[SLIPPERYNOVA]

hello does anyone have any info on aluminum tubing? how to weld/braze? the strength of it? i have tried to use durafix. that crap makes it look easy to use and strong on the net but its not. i was gonna use the tubing for a tuber chassis hybrid. i know your gonna ask why aluminum? because i need to connect it to aluminum that is a part of my running gear off a revo

[BlueMonster]

You can braze aluminum, if mixed with Argon gas. It's dangerous because it removes the oxygen from what I understand. There has got to be a way to attach the Revo parts to steel.

[kerrywittig]

Originally Posted by SLIPPERYNOVA

hello does anyone have any info on aluminum tubing? how to weld/braze? the strength of it? i have tried to use durafix. that crap makes it look easy to use and strong on the net but its not. i was gonna use the tubing for a tuber chassis hybrid. i know your gonna ask why aluminum? because i need to connect it to aluminum that is a part of my running gear off a revo

TIG welding is the best, but is truly an artform to accomplish so that a chassis appears "correct" at the joints. Aluminum rod is easiest to work with, and the weight is very low, as demonstrated in table below.

ALUMINUM 6061 ROUND ROD

Size------------Approx. Wt. Per Lin Ft
1/8------------ 0.015
3/16----------- 0.032
7/32----------- 0.044
1/4------------ 0.059
5/16----------- 0.090
3/8------------ 0.133
7/16----------- 0.178
1/2------------ 0.235

Hope this is helpful, Kerry

[zeke67]

ok yea if u dont want 2 weld it u can braze it but with argon gas am i rite???