Tig Brazing Copper To Stainless

But remember its not as strong as a weld.

Tig brazing copper to stainless.

It will subject to 100 x ray prior to the second butt see the outer prep for a 6 sleeve and another co. The little details are various. Brazing is done at lower temperatures without melting the base metals. Now technically this would be classified as tig brazing because the stainless steel has a higher melting point then the silicon bronze filler rod.

Buy the right copper. Silicon bronze rod has a melting temp of around 1050 c while stainless steel has a melting point of 1400 1450 c. I would like to know if it is possible to tig weld copper pipe fittings to 300 series stainless steel. Pay attention to those and your project will be fine.

Copper to stainless tig welds 10 05 2009 11 46 pm. Silicon bronze will join carbon steel copper bronze brass cast iron pretty much any of these to any other. This is the copper to stainless butt after welding. I use the term silver brazing instead of silver solder because technically anything over 840 degress f is brazing.

Tig welding copper is not hard but it doesn t get done that often. But because of its low melt point silicon bronze tig brazing works better on galvanized sheet than welding with mild steel rods. You can t treat copper like steel. Browse suggested weld parameter settings for tig welding.

The brazing alloys and fluxes are available at most hvac r suppliers and if the guy at the counter. So here is the video with a few tips on silver brazing copper to steel and brazing stainless steel bolts to some copper washers. Because of this you don t need the base metals to be similar so it s possible to tig braze copper to stainless steel as an example. It is different than steel but it is straightforward enough.

The gold look of silicon bronze makes stuff look cool.