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If it is brown and the ribs have been soldered, it sounds like flux.I find it hard to believe, however, that flux wouldn't have been cleaned off.When you heated it, did it smell like pine rosin? If not,maybe it is bluing salts, colored brown with rust(I hope not).
Mike

Der Ami makes the excellent point that the substance could be excess rosin flux. That would also melt and become sticky, but it would happen at a lower temperature than cured epoxy. As he said, rosin flux has a distinctive smell. Just going by the color, that's what it sounds like. Maybe you could narrow it down by trying to dissolve some in turpentine or mineral spirits. Cured epoxy should not dissolve in either.

Very interesting. I did not try smelling it when I heated it. I tried dissolving it by using some mineral spirits on a cloth to try to wipe it off the spoon I used. Did not come off the spoon. If it is epoxy it is certainly not very hard since I was able to scrape it off with just a fingernail and a tooth pick. I suppose it won't take long to come loose shooting a few rounds of sporting clays?