Help welding aluminum

[Lunar240z]

My local welding shop wants 55 bucks to fill 4 little holes on my balance tube, they said it's their "minimum charge"

it seems to me like it could be done for a lot less...

does andybody in the bay area, [ca] with a tig think they can help me out here?

[Guest Phil1934]

Try another shop. My local welded some brackets fo free. You can do it with al flux coated rods and a DC buzz box, too.

[Oleh]

http://ecatalog.praxair.com/storelocator/usas.html

 

i bought alot of stuff from them local, and they charge me like 25-30 bucks to fill up their biggest tank.

[Z-TARD]

A quick google search resulted in this: http://durafix.com/

I've seen products like this one (It may have even been durafix, can't remember) demonstrated at car shows, etc. Seems to work pretty well, especially for non structural stuff like filling holes. Might be worth a shot.

 

Mike

[PeterZ]

Since you don't know me and may not trust me if you have a spare and want to ship it to me in San Jose I'll do it. It will only cost your shipping both ways. Last Thursday a racer friend received a bad new replacement BMW water pump the night he was supposed to tow to his race. I replaced the leaking plug and welded it up. His car prep needs some help (don't work on the car the day you tow) but he won Saturday's race. Have you looked at socket head pipe plugs? They can be made to mount flush with the surface and not look too badly on the car. There's also an "A" "B" epoxy from Jegs that my machinist likes well enough to use on the inside of intake manifolds. The balance tube is a little tricky to weld because they are full of carbon poo poo on the inside that wants to float out when the alloy is molten.