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Frank Zhou
Reviewed in Canada on April 27, 2019
Good quality product.
Customer
Reviewed in Canada on April 27, 2017
Easy to use !!
Jesse Nietzer
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2016
This past year I started to get into making Christmas decorations. I decided that working with aluminum would be rather easy as I have an aluminum cutting blade for my chop saw. I only was left with how to keep the pieces together.At first, I considered riveting as I have used this in other projects successfully. But, I wanted a cleaner look in order to stick LED strips to. I had a torch and figured I would try brazing.Let me tell you, these rods work great. After heating up the aluminum, these flow right in and hold joints tight. There are also a lot of rods included in this product so you can do several projects before needing to order more. I would highly recommend these for aluminum brazing.
Patrick C.
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2016
I would highly recommend this product to any body who needs to do some aluminum repair. Product works as it says. Fairly easy to use, cheap alternative to welding. Must have patience to use properly. Getting the parts to the right temperature is critical.
Jess and Matt
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2016
I've never welded, but I have done a lot of soldering. So when I needed to join a bunch of square aluminum tubing, I thought this might fit the bill. Firstly, You must get this hot! Use something like mapp gas. Surfaces must be clean. After about 4 hours of messing with this on about 10 joints I gave up. Only about 2 or 3 of my joints held. The rest fell apart. I don't know if this was because of the aluminum surface not being clean enough. What I can say is that the joints that did hold were great. Stronger than the aluminum itself. I tested those good joints with a hammer and the aluminum broke before the joint. So maybe it was my inexperience, maybe it was something else. But this just didn't work for me. I ended up re-cutting all of my pieces and bolting them together.
Didymus-Thomas Martin MD
Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2016
Easy to use with preheating of piece to be brazed by placing on gas grill and then using torch to further heat the aluminum piece and using rods. Excellent repair on aluminum oil pan that was 1/2 inch thick. preheating of piece to be brazed is the trick.
rjones26
Reviewed in Canada on May 3, 2015
Didn't work as advertised I cleaned area to be work with stainless steel brush and flux designed for aluminum tried 3 different heat sources propane, Plumbers B-tank and Oxy-Acetaline, Heated the area to be brazed before applying rod and more flux rod would melt and not flow it would just bubble up and not move, it got to point that when heating with oxy-acetaline tourch and apllying rod the hole got bigger and the rod still only bubbled up and once cool could be scraped off with fingers.
Elaine Wiart
Reviewed in Canada on November 7, 2015
GREAT!!!! it does a great job brazing aluminum. It does take a little practice to make a beautiful job, but the rod is really reliable.
Silver Surfer
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2015
In England the term Easy-Flo brazing rods is taken to mean a type of rod that is suitable for Brass, Bronze and Copper. The rods look like brass but they actually contain some Silver. The rods were bought to braze or silver-solder, boat propeller reducing bushes into propellers that are bored too large for my boat (the boat has a 3/4" stern tube which cannot be changed without butchering the boat as it looks as if the stern-tube was glassed-in before the topside was bonded to the hull as there is no room to get to it)These rods are intended for Aluminium (AKA as Aluminum) and Zinc alloys. Possibly they are similar to "Lumiweld"which is also not suitable for marine propellers.I'm now going to have to buy a different product from Johnson Matthey Metals as the "Easy-Flo" from the US is no good.Further research reveals TWO sound-alike products from TWO different companies and countries. There was Johnson Matthey "Easyflow" now discontinued because it contained Cadmium. For joining Copper, Brass, Bronze etc this was the real deal!There is also "Easy-Flo" from Forney in the US but this is for joining Aluminium and Zinc plus their alloys which are sometimes referred to as "Monkey Metal".The good news is that I'm not going senile!
aldman
Reviewed in Canada on October 23, 2015
Ideal for welding aluminium with apropane torch!
Q72759
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2015
The box said 10 brazing rods are in the package, mine was open and only had 9...
Frank R. Robertson
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2014
These are easy to use and work perfectly, they do require a little more heat than a propane torch readily achieves, but they did the job.
Taz
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2013
It does work as described, however, it takes somewhat more heat that you might expect - definitely more than typical copper solder. I managed to melt one 1/4" aluminum rod I was trying to braze before I learned to control the heat (aluminum has no color change).The product is also only marginally self-fluxing, so I was really glad that I bought some aluminum flux along with it - without it, most of my joints failed. Once you get flux on the parts and get them properly heated, it sticks well and is ultimately stronger than the aluminum (more importantly, it is rather inflexible). Overall, very useful.
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