I had an earlier thread/post just yesterday, thank you for all the input. To follow up on that (now that I made a trip to Home Depot this Saturday morning)... what about my using MAPP gas for brazing/soldering aluminum and copper? Home Depot has a MAPP gas kit for $40, $60 if also including a dual-cylinder head and an oxygen cylinder in addition to the mapp cylinder-- claims it can do cutting also. Home Depot also has aluminum 1/4" and 1/4 rods and thin (1/8" or so) aluminum plate, all 36inch long; plus they have plenty of thin (1/4" or 1/2" hollow copper tubing)-- soft metals-- wouldn't the MAPP gas be enough to solder join such metals for figurative art sculpture, so that I could avoid an arc welder or acetylene?
One of my concerns with arc welding, much as I sort of would like that since it would really join the metals (and I took arc welding in High School, many many years ago), is that arc welding requires wearing a dark face mask so that how the heck would I see what I am working on as an artist until I get a spark going? Figure art with metals would require good sight when manipulating the wires, etc.