[TheForge] Brazing vs welding

[RIES NIEMI]

Its higher tech, higher bucks, but I use silicon bronze brazing rod all the
time with the tig welder. It works great for brazing dissimilar metals
together, and puts much less heat into something because of how controllable
the tig torch is. I often use it to braze thin wall tubing, as there is much
less distortion when you dont have to actually melt the parent metal. Tig
brazing also really works great in those razor blade to propeller shaft type
situations- I used to do a production candlestick where we brazed on 24 ga
stamped steel leaves to 3/8" round, and any other technique would have
reduced the stampings to a puddle.
Ries Niemi