The battery boxes that I have seen are made of aluminium.

Mike
MU-2

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Hey all... I've got the plane down for an annual and have discovered a
small
weeping leak in the bottom of the battery box (where the drain nozzle
attaches). Am I
correct in recalling that the box is made of tin and the nozzle of copper?
Will
regular Lead/Tin (60/40) solder this, or do I need some special solder for
it? It
seems like it should be repairable, since it looks like it was *made* by
soldering.

Oh yeah, and of course a good cleanup and repaint is in order back there.
Very little corrosion back there, but enough to do a bit of cleanup.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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