[TheForge] "Hidden" Brazing of Mild Steel and resist

Thu May 30 08:54:01 2002

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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Fels and
Phoebe Palmer
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 1:21 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TheForge] "Hidden" Brazing of Mild Steel

At 05:49 PM 5/29/02, you wrote:

Marc;
The traditional practice of brazing in a forge fire can nicely minimize 
exposed braze.  The bronze is cut into dinky pieces ( a coarse file
works 
fine if it's clean) The flux and the filings  are mixed into a paste
with 
water called spelter and  placed between the pieces to be joined. If
your 
fit up is decent and your clean-up good ,the joint only shows a fine
line 
of color. You can use a resist to keep  it from spreading. 

When I was learning welding in school, they used a plain old #2 pencil
to draw a line where they wanted the braze to stop.