Brazing works well and makes a strong connection on lap joints but body work doesn t do well on top of lap joints brazed or welded.
Braze welding sheet metal.
Brazing is distinguished from welding because it uses an intermediary material usually a copper zinc alloy to join the two metal pieces rather than melting the pieces themselves.
This process is successfully used on sheet metal.
These steels when welded using a traditional arc welding process produce large quantities of zinc vapour.
The braze welding process is considered an excellent choice for the joining of coated eg galvanized thin sheet steels.
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There are some places where brazing and braze welding have application in sheetmetal work particularly when they are used to repair or to replace factory joints that were originally brazed or braze welded.
The joint is produced by a sweating action of the brazing alloy on the basemetal surface.
Brazing is a technique for joining pieces of metal together by filling the join between the two metal pieces with a molten intermediary metal.
It s nearly impossible to braze a butt joint and have it be worth a crap.
6 5 2 braze welding with silicon bronze filler ercusi a as specified in aws a 5 7 is accomplished by using dcsp direct current straight polarity with sufficient amperage to provide melting of the filler and bonding of the resulting weld pool to the base metal.
Braze welding is welding with a nonferrous filler metal that melts below the melting temperature of the base metal.
This has several negative effects.
I also weld 1 8 carbon steel.
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Joints have good strength.
The most common filler metal is brass 60 percent copper 40 percent zinc with additions of silicon nickel or other elements.
Butt joint aare the preferred method for sheet metal panels when welding.
Use the right brazing rod material for the metal used in your project.
Is not thin sheet metal.
Brazing is similar to soldering but at higher temperatures.