[TheForge] Brazing vs welding

Fri Nov 15 15:22:01 2002

I remember reading about this guy that built an engine block out of 
sheet metal and furnace brazed it together. It was supposed to have been 
very successful!!!
Rowland

Howell Steve wrote:

>I'll start by saying that I have never forge brazed Dave, although I did recently have a situation where brazing (with a torch) was the perfect answer. I had a railing element that was shaped like an "S" on it's side. Laid side by side, it formed a nice repeating squiggly shape throughout the piece. Question was how to join the elements w/out nasty bird-poop welds, etc., etc. I wanted to maintain visual continuity and give the joining finial a 'floating' look without having weld fillets ruin the feel for me.
>The braze worked perfectly and as you are aware, is strong as heck.
>Take a look, it's the last entry on the 'work' page in the photo-site.
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>Steve Howell
>Seattle 
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>>I've been looking around and reading and have started to think that maybe 
>>I'm welding too often (forge and/or MIG and/or stick) and maybe should do 
>>more brazing in certain applications.  I found one good site on line that 
>>tells a lot about brazing, it's pros and cons.  It is The Brazing Book 
>>online and can be found at 
>>http://www.handyharmancanada.com/TheBrazingBook/contents.htm#Index
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>>There seems to be a lot more versatility and strength to brazing than I 
>>thought.  I think this online book on brazing is gonna be worth a little 
>>more reading/browsing.
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>>Anyone have any thoughts or experience to share on brazing in the forge?
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>>Dave Brown
>>Heritage Smithing
>>Green Bay, WI
>>ABANA, UMBA, GoM, MODA, ARG
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