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How is a hole in an aluminium AC tubing fixed or connections doneWith the old school copper you solder it?

As a mechanical automation's engineer that knows little about AC units I would guess sense you cant solder aluminium that you epoxy it but what do I knowAs an engineer the simplest things blow over my headI can tell you the melting point of osmium and how many isatopes there are in molybdenum but tying a shoe or using a microwave oven I can't handle

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NoDue to the great difference in melting temperatures, soldering Cu onto Al is not practicalBoth materials need to melt, mix and solidify without movement to form a crystalline boundary structure that can hold together under the pressure the tubing needs to containIt might work if you could keep the molten Cu in place as the Al cooled down to the Cu melting temperature, such as repairing a crack in the bottom of an aluminum bowl where the copper can be kept in place and immobile during coolingRepairing a tube won't work because the Cu will stay molten and roll off the Al tube as it cools from its much higher temperatureYou should just replace the tube.
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