I think you can use "Borax" that you get at the grocery store. Brian Quinby
M211, WC12
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gavin Broad" <invest@portsmouth-mann.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2000 7:12 PM
Subject: [MV] Brazing fluxes and alternates.
> Hi List,
>
> Way back in the an(n)als [:-) of my apprenticeship, I was brazing away at
> some rabbit job, or other, when a grizzled old git (probably about 45!) of
> a fitter wandered by and gave me some sage advice about what I could use
if
> I ever found myself without proprietary brazing/soldering flux.
>
> Having long since forgotten that particular grain of wisdom, I would like
> to ask if anyone on the list can remember/knows what you can use as flux
> when none is available?
>
> I did get the words translated but travelling around the welding shops of
> Bangkok and asking for "nam yah pra-san torng leung" (your Thai lesson for
> today) was about as much use as a pork chop in a synagogue.
>
> Any help appreciated.
> Cheers
> Gavin
>
>
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