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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: rockrobotics on March 11, 2010, 03:06:58 PM
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Hi,
I wanted to connect coat hangers together, but I don't have welder. Is there some sort of alternative to welding that is cheap? Please answer me!
Thanks,
Rock Robotics
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Well you can braze it.
http://www.societyofrobots.com/mechanics_brazing.shtml (http://www.societyofrobots.com/mechanics_brazing.shtml)
Or, depending on the application you might even be able to solder it.
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Thanks, this sounds like a good idea!
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Hi,
If soldering (or epoxying), wrapping with thin wire first will give added strength.
Metal coat hangers could perhaps just be twisted hard together (with pliers).
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if you have a grinder (I have done this with a file, to prove it could be done),
take the two ends of the wire,
grind lengthways an L shape in the wire, so when put together it forms one bit of wire, with an overlap.
epoxy/solder/braze that together.
then wrap with thin wire and epoxy/solder/braze that.
when wraping with wire, tight close in binding for strength, slightly loser if strength isn't an issue, but is just subject to vibration.
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Thanks,
That's a good idea but would a soldering iron be hot enough to do it?
Thanks,
Rock Robotics
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Hi,
would a soldering iron be hot enough to do it?
If 50W or higher it should do, but otherwise, a flame will help - eg. one of the "turbo" lighters with a pointy flame (and something nonflammable and isolating to go on the table), just be extra carefull when operating with an open flame!
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Cool thanks!
Yor like helping everybody on this site! Thanks!
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Rock, if you get stuck and are in the central NJ area, I've got a MIG welder.
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Hi,
He's 6 timelines from you.
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Hi,
He's 6 timelines from you.
Wow. NJ is big!
:-P
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Wow this is kinda wierd and cool!
I live in NJ! Sussex County!
And by the way my middle name is Rock! SRSLY
Rock Robotics
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Hey Soeren,
I don't get what your talking about!
Six timelines?
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Hi,
Hey Soeren,
I don't get what your talking about!
Six timelines?
From yours and his Summary pages, they were 6 hours apart (Local time), but since they're equal now, one of you must have changed his page - and moved you 1/4 around the world in the process ;D
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For soldering this sort of stuff one of those butane solder pens from Radio Shack work great. Regular soldering irons I find just cool down too fast to be useful. I used to solder brass together using the butane soldering irons, endless heat for gobs of solder.
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Hi,
Regular soldering irons I find just cool down too fast to be useful. I used to solder brass together using the butane soldering irons, endless heat for gobs of solder.
Try a WTCP50 with a short wide tip, It will solder a car starter cable ;D
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Okay, I think I get what you're talking about! :)