Abstract:
CsF-AlF
3 flux and KF-AmF
3 fluxes were selected, the effects of removing the oxides on the surface of 6063 aluminum alloy by these two fluxes were studied at different temperatures, and then the reaction mechanism between flux and surface oxide film of 6063 aluminum alloy was analyzed and discussed.It is discoved that the oxide film on the surface of 6063 aluminum alloy was removed by CsF-AlF
3 flux in a reacting and/or dissoluting way, and the HF formed at high temperature from NH4F was the critical compounds existed in the CsF-AlF
3 flux.In addition, the formation of HF was improved and accelerated duo to the H
2O, hence the process of removing the oxides was accelerated by the flux.The CsF and AlF
3 were not found, and only a few amount of CsAlF
4 was found in the residuai of CsF-AlF
3 flux, and also, the main residua of KF-AlF
3 flux was KAlF
4 at the 570℃, KAlF
4 was not found at the 610℃, which only a few amount of KMgF
3 was found.Results also indicated that in the residua of KF-AlF
3 flux, Mg, Mn and KAlF
4 would loss gradually, which lead to the melting point of flux increasing rapidly and the flux fluidity became poorer.