[TheForge] joining al and steel

Mon Feb 24 08:55:01 2003

sounds like a question for the answer guys at Lincoln Electric.
I have welded nickel copper to steel,  and copper to steel , Tig is best. Never tried Aluminum, Lot of the old knifemakers cast al. handles right on the tangs, Ruana still uses that method.
 Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer <[email protected]> wrote:I think so Edge, but not directly. There is an AC (?) aluminum-bronze 
rod that will run on either Al or copper alloys ( used a sample years 
ago) and then you'd braze the bronze to the steel.
You could probably do something similar with TIG.
Prior to the Al-Bronze rod there was some 7 or 16 step method I don't 
remember the specifics of
This is not something to be left out in the weather...on the other hand 
, perhaps you could run a clock or something off the mixed metal 
junction. That little mixed metal generator sure would eat the Al side 
up pretty quickly outdoors. The stuff dissolves fast enough already here 
on the coast.
....Pete

[email protected] wrote:

>Can aluminum and mild steel be fusion welded using a mig or oxy/act?
>Can they be welded using any process other than friction welding or
>explosive bonding?
>If so, how?
>
>TIA,
> edge
>
> 
>

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