Brazing Sheet Steel

Use the right brazing rod material for the metal used in your project.

Brazing sheet steel.

Brazing is similar to soldering but at higher temperatures. Brazing is distinguished from welding because it uses an intermediary material usually a copper zinc alloy to join the two metal pieces rather than melting the pieces. The brazing process can yield strong joints that are ductile clean and smooth. 3 5 for gas tungsten arc welding gtaw see ses w07 f01.

However a key advantage is that many dissimilar metals can be joined to stainless steels by brazing. Brazing is a technique for joining pieces of metal together by filling the join between the two metal pieces with a molten intermediary metal. The brazing rod should be melted by the heat of the metal pieces being joined not by direct contact with the flame of the torch. Use a torch that produces a high intensity flame.

3 6 for weldments of sheet metal see ses w06 f19. Recommended rods by metal type. Brazing stainless steels requires adequate planning as the alloys used to form joints must have properties compatible with the base metal. Brazing is a metal joining process in which two or more metal items are joined together by melting and flowing a filler metal into the joint the filler metal having a lower melting point than the adjoining metal.

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