@Felthry I like aluminum.
Definitely not great electrically tho. And the oxide layer is a mixed blessing.
@Felthry welding it isn't so bad if you have a good TIG welder.
@starkatt soldering it's a nightmare though. you need incredibly aggressive flux, and a weird zinc-based solder that has the potential to give off highly toxic zinc fumes (tin-based solders, even really good tin-lead stuff, just don't wet aluminum very well at all)
-F
@starkatt i don't think the zinc fumes are really that likely to happen but anything working with zinc and high temperatures you need to be careful
-F
@Felthry yeah zinc freaks me out.