[TheForge] Brazing vs welding

[Adam Whiteson]

a very informative post.  Pete, what do you suggest for brazing cast 
iron?  I have a couple of vises  (actually I have a LOT of vices)  that 
failed where the moveable jaw joins the slide bar.  Would like to try and 
repair them.

The two drawbacks I have found with brazing forged work are:  cant work the 
piece after brazing if it means heating the join  and that the colors dont 
match.  OTH being able to disassemble the joint w/o damaging the components 
can be very handy

Adam


At 08:58 PM 11/15/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>At 06:20 PM 11/15/02, you wrote:
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>There are a bunch of specialized fluxes available for brazing...or you can 
>use the  same borax you forge weld with.  For gas welding , flux coated 
>rods are handy. You can get rods to match a range of colors and rods that 
>melt at different temperatures so that you can build complex structures is 
>stages. ....