Well, I got one of those technical questions and it's not really VW related but I figure with the wealth of knowlege out there, I'd seek opinions. Now the reason I'm doing this is not important but I need to affix a 1/8" hex key to a strip of body thickness sheet steel, as shown below. I don't figure I could MIG weld it even at low low power, I just tried to silver solder them together, I sanded the surface shiny, cleaned with degreaser and acid, fluxed well and the solder will only wet the surface in small dots here and there. I tried regular tin/lead solder as well but wanted the higher strength of tin/silver. Any opinions, I can braze fairly well and might see how small of a brazing rod I can find but that requires a lot of heat. Ideally I'd like to spot weld it with mini spot welds in a couple of locations, figure discharging a couple thousand microfarad capacitor off a big 20-30 watt 24V power supply might do the trick? Anybody got any ideas in general? Thanks ______ | | | | | | | | ========== < steel hex key | | | | ______ ^strip of sheet metal (1/2" wide, 1/32" or so thick) John ja@coe.wvu.edu '71 Westy Virginia, '90 Corrado G60
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