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rdodger

posted on 29/3/17 at 01:51 PM Reply With Quote
Alloy water pipe

Afternoon all

I need to make up a 32mm alloy water pipe with a 10mm barb. As I don't have a tig and can barely weld steel anyway I wondered about alloy brazing. I have seen the guy at Stoneleigh happily gluing alloy together with his torch and magic rods but wondered if anyone had tried it and what the results were?






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stevebubs

posted on 29/3/17 at 02:33 PM Reply With Quote
Can't see why brazing wouldn't work... I braised my sump together...admittedly steel..
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ian locostzx9rc2

posted on 29/3/17 at 02:46 PM Reply With Quote
Have you got the parts already as if not it maybe worth just buying one as there not expensive these days .
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rdodger

posted on 29/3/17 at 02:53 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by ian locostzx9rc2
Have you got the parts already as if not it maybe worth just buying one as there not expensive these days .


Hi

Do you mean buy an alloy adapter that takes a barb? If so I have one of those already and want to get rid of it to reduce the number of hose joints as the piece required is about 300mm long. Mostly though to make it look nicer :-)

[Edited on 29/3/17 by rdodger]






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ian locostzx9rc2

posted on 29/3/17 at 04:53 PM Reply With Quote
You can buy alloy pipes in lots of different lengths
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rdodger

posted on 29/3/17 at 05:29 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by ian locostzx9rc2
You can buy alloy pipes in lots of different lengths


I'm not sure I understand what you are saying? I need an 8mm pipe to come out of the 200-300mm length of 32mm. So I either use a boss with a barb and join it in with hose or I weld/braze the 8mm in to the length of 32mm pipe.

Any way. Has anyone brazed ally?






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ian locostzx9rc2

posted on 29/3/17 at 06:51 PM Reply With Quote
Sorry totally misread your post you can get 200mm alloy pipes with a tee piece but I think that's the maximum length.
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fazerruss

posted on 30/3/17 at 06:21 AM Reply With Quote
Just offer some beer tokens to someone with a Tig to do it properly. I've heard of good and bad results from Ali brazing.

I have a Tig but not in Manchester





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killerferret666

posted on 30/3/17 at 07:29 AM Reply With Quote
I went to a local small business exhaust repair place, asked for them to stick a couple of bits of weld on either end as I needed a Barb.

He did it right there and then, took 30seconds and I gave him a fiver





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rdodger

posted on 30/3/17 at 07:48 AM Reply With Quote
Thanks for the replies

I have enough material to do it twice so I have ordered some brazing rods & flux. If it doesn't work I will take some more bits to a local fabricators to have it welded.






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rdodger

posted on 5/4/17 at 04:17 PM Reply With Quote
Well I gave it a go and it came out pretty well.

I watched a couple of youtube clips to see if there was anything special to look out for. To be honest with the special flux and getting the 2 parts nice and clean, it's pretty straight forward.






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