[TheForge] Brazing vs welding

Sat Nov 16 20:40:01 2002

I'm very confused, since you are not bringing the parent material to its melting
point, what is the advantage of TIG over a small acetylene welding torch?

John C.

RIES NIEMI wrote:

> > 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.
>
> >
> > 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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