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THX Colonial Boy for the reply. I have tried to wire/wrap the halves with small ga. wire. But I think my problems where the halves are not true to each other and I used a small butane pen torch instead of soldering iron. I will give your guidelines a try before going the JB weld method.
Curtis,
You could try gluing small tabs on to hold the halves in alignment, use a 5 minute epoxy and it will melt off as you solder the joint [if Murphy doesn’t interfere😀]. Just make really sure that no glue gets near the join.
Personally I wouldn’t go the JB method as if things go wrong the clean up could be a problem, however if you do use it or a good epoxy glue put a run along the inside of the join to widen the mating surfaces.
You’d have to do this in sections to avoid the glue running away but time would be well spent and when the job’s finally polished the epoxy, [or the JB], will, to a casual glance, look like a thin soldered joint.
 
it´s described in the book "The Powder Flask" by Martin Rywell

The trickiest thing is to align the halves and to keep them aligned when soldering. swearing can help
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