suggested solder

[Trip Doctor]

Yea, as Schrub said, you can just get the regular (no flux core) solder, and use flux seperately; just make sure to use acid flux (rather than rosin flux), as that will be the most applicable for what you want to use it for. You can also get the acid core solder (as far as I know at least) if you want, but using flux seperately would be a good idea anyways, even if you use this kind of solder. Yea, and.. again as Schrub said, if you're going to use a soldering iron, you'll need a fairly large tip, because you're going to be heating up a big peice of metal (your tension wrench).

Well.. hope that was somewhat helpful, lol.

[Kaotik]

Ive read khaotics guide and have not been able to find the type of solder her uses.

Wow! I do hope those were typos. If they were, slow down from typing so fast or Preview before Submitting a post.

On that particular wrench I welded the pieces together using a Lincoln MIG Welder. Finding Acid Core Solder in my local area is near impossible, so I opted for a more agressive way to bond them together. If you go that route be careful with welding small pieces together, you will have to adjust the wire speed and temperature down so it don't destroy your work.

No offence taken on your post about my name and gender, but just FYI both were wrong.

[Shrub]

You do not need to flux the metals if you are using an acid core solder. Flux is a non acidic cleaner for materials that cannot handle the acid. So if you are using acid, there should be no need to use flux.

So basically, if you are going to solder on say a PC board, you would use the flux core solder, as acid would destroy the board. If you are going to solder bristles together, then you would use the acid core solder.

Not totally wrong,

The acid stuff is nasty and to be honest is hard to get good results with at times but isnt a material specific flux its more i guess a process specific flux if that makes sence, useing a flame with the acid flux evaporates it thus making it pointless, metal based flux doesnt,

The non acid flux isnt only meant for materials that cant take the acid but i think ive covered that above,

I may not always get everything right so correct me if you find im wrong on anything but im not too bad on engineering processes,