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Originally Posted by bobadame
I've used propane and oxygen to gas weld platinum. That worked great. Then I tried to gas weld aluminum with the same gasses. It didn't work. Don't remember exactly why not but maybe the chemistry was wrong.
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Oxy-propane works for me ....
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The platinum I tried to weld with O/A (flame temp 6300F) was .125" thick and since platinum melts at 3200F, it was slow going.
My .125" steel at 2400F welds a lot faster.
With O/P flame temp at 4100F .050" aluminum welds well at 1250F but even faster with O/H at 5100F.
It's nice to have 2-3000 extra deg.F for a heat margin when welding stuff.