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Default Joining Aluminum without a TIG

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:44:21 -0700, Tim Wescott
wrote:

On 09/15/2010 07:23 AM, Larry Jaques wrote:
On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:34:57 -0700, Tim
wrote:

On 09/14/2010 02:30 PM, Rich Grise wrote:
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:13:41 -0700, Tim Wescott wrote:


I'm not a machinist or a weldor, so I'd make something that could
be simply bolted together.


[C'mon, Rich. You're at least a wannabe machinist if you're here on
Wreck.Metalheads.]


That's Plan B.

But brazed or soldered looks cooler, and should be lighter.


Yeah, screw "functional". Just make it -look- cool!


It's gotta look cool _and_ work. Beauty comes from functionality: if it
works, it is, by definition, beautiful. If it works _and_ it's well
made it's beautifuller. If it doesn't work worth a damn then all the
artsy-fartsy critics in the world can rave over it, but it's still an
ugly piece of @#$%.


I wholeheartedly agree.

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order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
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