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Default Metal advice needed

On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 08:30:04 -0500, "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh"
lloydspinsidemindspring.com wrote:

" fired this volley in
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It is just a torch, but with a very high temperature. So it does not
work well with ordinary brazing rod.


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

The only way to braze PROPERLY even with a gas torch. Heating the rod
with a gas torch can work well in combination with heating the work if
the rod is a bit too large for the job.