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That's got me before as well. You're Richard DOTJust realised now lol.
This isn’t me
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Ha ha yeah don’t forget the dot.That's got me before as well. You're Richard DOT
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Just realised now lol.
This isn’t me
You would have thought the forum sw would not allow such close user names. Ie same word/name but in caps etc. Come to think about it you could have RiChard, RIcard, etc etc. How the hell would you know who is who
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Well I must apologise to @Richard. I got some brazing rods from him a good while back and as I was busy refitting a boat I set them asside to try later on.
I clear forgot about them and only today when I was looking for something else I came upon them.
Didn't have any steel handy so I wondered if it would work on stainless, I had just been welding up a header tank from 50mm x 50mm x 1.3 stainless box so gave it a go.
Brazed it to some 8mm thick plate and it went reasonably well for a first attempt.
I clear forgot about them and only today when I was looking for something else I came upon them.
Didn't have any steel handy so I wondered if it would work on stainless, I had just been welding up a header tank from 50mm x 50mm x 1.3 stainless box so gave it a go.
Brazed it to some 8mm thick plate and it went reasonably well for a first attempt.
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Not bad at all
Just watch the dilution as you’ve got a bit on the top toes.
That’s what the scale is on the top of the joint. Tidy job though hood.
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So long as there is enough current to melt the filler the gages of the material your joining is pretty much irrelevant.
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I've just stumbled across this thread and it is very interesting. I was watching Jody of weldingtipsandtricks fame on his site and I seem to remember him saying it is a good idea to use AC for TIG brazing. What are your thoughts on that?
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I used to believe the same, however I dont have a problem in DC. This was from today. 80 amps, 2.4mm tungsten, SIF No8
2"scaf tube.
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Tidy
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that would have capillary brazed lugs as in bicycle fashion
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Some seriously nice work on display in these pictures. Aluminium bronze, of course, that's what it must have been. Makes total sense to use AC for that. Thanks for clarifying.
I have got to admit I was a little bit interested in trying this so went ahead and got a few rods and had my first to tonight we'll nothing to Wright home about to start with blob blob blob then it started to get better nothing special but better so I have a few questions or 1 to start with I am getting a dark braze no were near the colour of the rods my thoughts are that I am slightly melting the steel underneth and that's contaminating the braze would this be correct
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I had the same problem with dark dirty looking braze when I first tried it. It took a bit of practice getting the heat just right before I got a nice consistent coloured braze. I put it down to dilution because I knew i had puddled the parent material a few times
