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    Posted on July 26th, 2011

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    Brazing Book: The Principles of Joint Design

    Types of brazed joints. What type of brazed joint should you design? There are many kinds of joints. But our problem is simplified by the fact that there are only two basic types – the butt and the lap. The rest are essentially modifications of these two. Let’s look first at the butt joint, both […]

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    Brazing Book: When Do You Think Brazing?

    Brazing s a Means to Make a Part. So far, we’ve been talking about brazing as a way of joining two or more metals into a permanent assembly. And we’ve limited our discussion to the situations where you have a metal assembly in mind from the outset, from initial product concept through finished piece. Now […]

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    Brazing Book: What Brazing Is All About

    What is brazing? Brazing is the joining of metals through the use of heat and a filler metal – one whose melting temperature is above 840°F (450°C) but below the melting point of the metals being joined. (A more exact name for the brazing process discussed in this book may be “silver brazing,” since in […]