How to mend tin(?) coffee pot?

[wingstoo]

Lads and lasses, put it in perspective, its a cheap aluminium percolator being treated almost as some work of art. I'm all for patch and mend but lets get real world about this. Lob the pot into a recycle bin for crying out loud if the JB weld fails and buy another used one.

It might be a family heirloom Rik, I have a watch here that needs fixing, might cost a heck of a lot more than a new one to do, but it has family written all over it...

I have loads of things that are cheep to throw and buy new, but that isn't the best way to do things, but it sure earns someone more money continually making new stuff, that is one of the reasons we are in such a state in this country...Everything is just so easy to throw out and buy another.

 

[rik_uk3]

It might be a family heirloom Rik, I have a watch here that needs fixing, might cost a heck of a lot more than a new one to do, but it has family written all over it...

I have loads of things that are cheep to throw and buy new, but that isn't the best way to do things, but it sure earns someone more money continually making new stuff, that is one of the reasons we are in such a state in this country...Everything is just so easy to throw out and buy another.

Is a different thing completely and sharpening a knife is maintenance; still, one man's tut & tat is another man's treasure.

 

[ganstey]

Is a different thing completely and sharpening a knife is maintenance

In my view, this is also maintenance. If you found an old well-made but rusty and blunt axe, would you throw it away or recondition it? Each to their own, but don't try and force your values on others.

 

[rik_uk3]

Not trying to force anything on anybody chap, just sharing my view, take it or leave it the choice is yours; I don't give a rats bum either way.

Merry xmas

 

[Big Stu 12]

You can solder aluminum, I have doen it loads of times...

Of course the more silicon in the Ali the harder it gets to make the solder take...


Just use alu-sol solder, but its expensive

http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/65392.pdf

 

[Ecoman]

Just use alusol solder its expensive

I just misread that completely and had a good chuckle.

OK so he isn't in the Army and he hasn't got haemorrhoids