Brazing Hints and Tips

[norxcontacts]

The rod will splatter when it's too hot.

[uniblob]

Thanks; nice video.

[Lubelltx]

opps-- I've put the rods in hot water for 10 mintues to try and remove the black and flux and it's not helping........

[897473]

@Lubelltx

If you are using RG 45 mild steel welding rod with a copper sheath (coating) - the black will not come off.  The black is where the thin copper sheath of copper has burnt off.

Boiling water should remove the flux.

[897473]

@Lubelltx The black color: If you notice on many of the pieces that I do where I use the copper sheathed welding rod, I work the black color in with the design. Notice some of the pieces in the "Small Sculptures That Sell" YouTube video as well as in other YouTube videos. The black against the copper that hasn't burnt off and the bronze brazing provides an interesting contrast.

[hvac4life69]

@Lubelltx think your flame is kinda to hot for that

[Lubelltx]

HELP RHONDA Please----I am working with 1/8" copper coated steel rods. When I braze with a flux rod it does great, EXCEPT the rods turn black on each side. I have tried liquid dish detergent and I'm using a powered flux. The flux is grandulated and will not come off. I've tried to hot water for 10 minutes and it's not working----HELP

[NOBOX7]

thanks for posting this video, nice of you to take the time to teach people , u have no idea how helpfull this is to not have to read a book but to see an actual deminstaration

[whiskey1162]

Thanks for the video. Learning to weld on the job at a rock quarry I used stick and mig, but never got to learn gas. great video I will be watching it a bunch more times I'm sure.

[UKRelic]

thank you a very helpful video

[897473]

I use 3/32 (diameter) brazing rod for most everything I do. That would be brazing 1/16 to 3/16 thickness.

If you are brazing thicker material you can go with 1/8 or even 3/16 diameter brazing rod.

[Axbent]

what size rods can I get? Any rules for rod diam Vs Material thickness?

[lct0227]

Its too hot if sometimes your flame is too hot and its not a neutralize flame. I like your tips.

[CanadianCountryCabin]

A most helpful and informative video without being to heavy on the technical jargon. Thanks........................­.now of to see if i can do it!

[MrHondatrx450rider]

Me and my cousin are building scale model trophy trucks and we tried mig welding and it was horrible, Didn't work one bit. Then brazing popped up in m head, But out of all the video's i have seen... Yours is no doubt The BEST. Very helpful, I subscribed.

[Jaffa4567]

I found your video very helpful but i'm doing metal working at my school and we do brazing and fusion welding and i'm just genrally bad, i've only been welding for about a month now however I just find that my welds look very poor and as i'm welding togeather a wine rack I would like to improve my general skills if you have any other advice. Thanks.

[897473]

@Jaffa4567 Sounds like to me that you are putting too much pressure on yourself. Just relax. When you are welding and brazing try not to think about the process and just let your mind take over. You’ll see a short section that comes out perfectly. When that happens just try and repeat which you did to get that perfect section of weld.

[Naddycat]

Very helpful, thank you :O)

[dubopp]

We call you The Happy Brazer! Thanks

[scratchneck]

great vid

[hightower2011]

Excellent video! Thanks

[jsnyara]

wow you're good. thanks for the vid.

[landykid60]

good tips,taa,,,,

[897473]

Thanks for your comment.

[ParadiseofTruth]

Please do pardon my "ignorance" but what is the purpose of brazing? Is it only about joining two (or more) pieces of metal? I looked at the ending result but I'm not understanding what exactly took place other than it looks like certain portions of the metal was melted into the other but what is the use for it?

[897473]

Brazing is joining two piece of metal using a bronze filler rod. It is much like soldering but the joint is much stronger than soldering.

In brazing steel the edges of the two pieces are heated to red hot and a bronze brazing rod is melted into in between the the two edges.

Check out the You Tube video Braze Vs. Weld

[mlmlmlmichel]

@897473 The diference also is that the brazzed material don't aquire the fusion temp, only the the bronze rods.

[smallbr]

thanks for the video. well done

[megazwan]

what flame type suitable for brazing?

[897473]

The Neutral flame and the Carbonizing flame.

There is a YouTube video titled "The Three Oxygen Acetylene Flames".