You have to hold the torch further away. Red hot is way too hot. Solder only needs a propane torch
Kevin Hurt wrote:
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> I wire wheeled it really good. Cleaned it with brake clean. Tried flux
> core solder. Tried hard silver solder with mapp gas. I don’t think I
> want to make new steel patches and try to braze it with oxy/acetylene.
> It gets red hot with mapp gas in a second because it’s so thin. So I’m
> just going to drill out my rivets and I’m back to jb welding my patches
> on, but thanks for all the advice. (edited)