Tim Wescott wrote:

On 09/12/2010 04:49 PM, dan wrote:
What's that Lassie? You say that Tim Wescott fell down the old
rec.crafts.metalworking mine and will die if we don't mount a rescue
by Sun, 12 Sep 2010 15:16:24 -0700:

Needed to join two pieces of mild steel today, with minimal bead and as
strong or nearly so as the parent metal.

So I got each one hot, got a thin coating of brazing rod melted onto
each one, then slapped them together and heated the back of the
accessible piece.

Poof! Instant bond. What a joy brazing is.

Is this an accepted procedure? Are there any pitfalls that I should
know of? How likely is it that I've got a joint that's mostly flux?

Yes. It would be called tinning if it were soft solder.
If you have a good fitting joint, and you have enough brazing melted
on to fill the gap, you should have a very sound joint.

I figured that, but wanted to know.

(I just posted again, because I'm having trouble with my news reader, or
with my news service. Gotta check with my ISP -- although I'm afraid
that if I remind them they carry newsgroups they may cancel them entirely!)


Giganews has been real crap lately. I have to log back in very
couple messages.

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