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    Help identifying aluminum alloy

    unless I send the part of for further testing, the reading are the best our scanner can pick up. Everything points to a 4,XXX series alloy, but not my main question is what alloy works best for welding to this piece?
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    Help identifying aluminum alloy

    I have been tasked with modifying a cast aluminum part and I am trying to match metals as closely as I can. I need to machine a new part to weld onto this casted part. Our metal scanner gave me a read out of: alloy 1: 384/80/19 Zr 0.003 +-0.001 Ta 0.024 +-0.007 Fe 0.117 +-0.016 Al 90.648...

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