On Wednesday, July 9, 2014 1:30:04 PM UTC, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:

Don't heat the rod, Don, heat the work.



Brazing is _soldering_. I normally don't even have the rod in the 'zone'

until the work is hot enough to flow the filler.



LLoyd

I have a reasonable amount of silicon bronze on hand. It works much better than brass. Especially true if you are brazing galvanized steel. Probably costs more than brass since it is almost all copper.

Dan