On Sat, 8 Aug 2020 13:16:19 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

On 08/08/2020 12:58, Tricky Dicky wrote:
An epoxy glue like Araldite are probably best. Aluminium is a
difficult metal to adhere to it is difficult to bond to the pure
metal as it oxidises as soon as you look at it.


car body filler also works, sets better and easier, and is cheaper.

But by definition is 'a filler' and so not likely to make a good butt
joint in this case?

You should de grease

Good advice if it isn't a very clean a recent break already.

and rough up the glue surfaces.

Except in this case it's 'cast' so probably wouldn't require any
'roughing up'.


Cheers, T i m