Anyone used this stuff, HTS2000?

[northwind]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA:IT&ih=011

Just noticed it while searching for something else... I can't weld, if I could weld I wouldn't be able to weld aluminium, I can't really afford a welder, and I don't have space for one either, and also I can't weld But this seems like it might be occasionally useful, if it's as good as it claims... I'm always skeptical though.

[yorkie_chris]

Looks cool, but £20 for 5 rods? They must be avin a larf.

Worked for a fabricators for a fair while, and if it was that good then I figure we'd have used it instead of TIG

[northwind]

Suppose it depends, as you say it's expensive so TIG once you have the hardware would probably make more sense... But if you're just doing occasional work than this might work. Don't know really, things like this tend to look great on paper but not so good when you come to use 'em...

Its pretty fiddly to use so you'll probably waste a couple of rods finding out the best temp, I gave up after making a mess trying to get the right heat, very hot for a blow torch but not as hot as oxy-acetelyne

A bloke I worked with got the hang of it, it looked good but not as strong as tig so more for cosmetics and small repairs than proper fabrication

[yorkie_chris]

Air acet might be the best thing for it then

Using it to fill holes in alloy for re-drilling and tapping sounds like its most useful ability

We're lucky round here in that there's a variety of small engineering shops who do one-off jobs like alloy welding for small amounts of cash. We've also got a place close by who make radiators to your spec if needed, powder coaters, blasters etc. It's a bike builders paradise in many ways.

[northwind]

Yeah, we're sort of short of that sort of thing up here... Though I'm sure there's people who do it, I can't find them

Originally Posted by northwind

Yeah, we're sort of short of that sort of thing up here... Though I'm sure there's people who do it, I can't find them

Ahh, the joys of living in the uncharted frozen wastelands of "Oop There"
<Points finger northwards>

[northwind]

Yep, the closest thing we've got to technical backup is... me! Unlucky

(not quite true, Youngs in Edinburgh are pretty handy, we have BBS powdercoaters (you get the free bonus of eyeballing all his streetfighters when you visit, including a 7/11 built out of an old Alan Duffus racer) and ERS suspension, few others...)

It's not bad stuff but sells locally for about a tenner, try a nut & bolt shop - but not b&Q or halfwits. Ive used ti repair gear levers and thsat kind of thing. it works wot more can you ssay.