[TheForge] Brazing vs welding

[Larry and Pat Brown]

Any kind of flux used?
L Brown

At 09:40 AM 11/15/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>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
>
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