[TheForge] Brazing vs welding

Sat Nov 16 15:50:01 2002

> Any kind of flux used?
> L Brown

No- when you tig braze you just feed the silicon bronze filler rod as if it
was a regular filler rod.  You can then use just the torch to wash it around
where you want it- by heating an area adjacent you can get the bronze to
follow.

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> 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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