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A method involving galling for securing against lateral motion two bodies held in face-to-face asperity contact, thereby to make a join between the two bodies, in which in the preferred form of the method there is inserted into the interface of the surfaces of the two bodies a material that on minimal initial lateral relative motion of the two surfaces promotes rapid but controllable 'galling' between the two surfaces, the galling binding the surfaces against further such motion, and the use in such method of electric current during formation of the join to heat and soften the touching asperities, thus enabling them to deform and flatten more rapidly to bring other smaller asperities nearby into contact and thus increase the number of gall sites, and/or use of electric current after formation of the join to effect stimulation and/or acceleration of the formation of diffusion bonds across the opposed faces of the join.

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