has anyone ever use or heard of brazing rods?i ran in to a guy that show me the brazing rods and it looks like it bonds pretty well,all it uses is a torch.what do you guys think?

 

When I brazed it was with an oxy-acetelene torch, and I was awesome at it

Unfortunetly oxy-acetelene is becoming a thing of the past, as there are easier and more effcient ways to weld. That was the first type of welding I did, was oxy-acetelene brazing, I loved it

 

brazing is fairly easy - pretty fun to dick around with. If you try to braze aluminum, you need a good fluxing agent and real rods, not the "as seen on tv" crap. As with anything, practice is key

 

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Yea, brazing has kinda fallen out to tig welding. Oxy/acet is sometimes taught as the precursor to tig, but most say it has less relation than many think.

Hey, its always good in a bind, i use it to fix exhaust manifolds and turbo mani's all the time. Does an effective job, nice and ductile.

 

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Yea its super easy and kinda fun, it was the second type of welding I learned after oxy-acetelene stick welding.

 

brazing is good but only if you get the rite rod for the application 15% silver is pretty good for flow but if your good 5% will do

 

In the correct connection, brazing can be just as good as welding. However you have to know it's limitations.

It's best if you think of brazing as being just like soldering.

In both cases, you are using a material to bond the two different parts together. The base metal of the two parts are NOT melted together, or even melted at all!!

If there is a good amount of physical contact area between the two parts, then brazing is a good option.

Think about this; if you twist two wires together and then solder them, you will not be able to pull them apart. If you just soldered the tip of one wire to the tip of the other wire, pulling them apart would be easy.

Wes

 

pretty good starters guide i found with google

http://www.handyharmancanada.c...s.htm