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Originally Posted by Malcolm Fisher Thanks, I hadn't realised that there were metals other than brass - I only saw one post showing the aileron construction and everything looked "brassy".
I have soldered zinc based alloys, but appreciate that, although possible, it isn't easy.
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*** Cannot remember the name of the product but at a show once a chap was welding coke tins together with a type of flux,the weld was beautiful without any distortion,I purchased some of the material but never got around to using it,probably hidden amongst my bits and pieces,you know what modellers are like !
There is a full sized microlight now being built that actually uses epoxy resin to 'glue' together the framework,just like my small Fokker Triplane model.
Years ago the De Havilland company used a new material called Redux bonding produced by CIBA Geigy,this was used to literally glue the underbelly longerons on the Dove aircraft,this must have been a very early form of epoxy material but certainly made for pioneering the process.