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Thread: braze welding copper
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31st January 2015, 06:41 AM #1
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braze welding copper
Hi Folks
Any tips on braze welding copper wire please, I am trying to do some wire art.
What brazing rod should I use?
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31st January 2015, 09:24 AM #2
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You have a few options available to you. Phos Copper, which doesn't require a flux. Tobin Bronze, or Comcoat T in it's pre flux coated form, Nickel Bronze, or Comcoat N if pre coated.
Have you considered soft soldering or even silver soldering the joints? A 2 or 5% silver brazing alloy should work quite nicely I would think.
This may be a lot easier to achieve than full on brazing with the sort of thickness wires I am envisaging you to be using.
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31st January 2015, 10:38 AM #3
Soft solder will be soooo much easier!
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5th February 2015, 06:42 AM #4
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Thank you very much for the feedback. Appears, soft solder / silver solder will be the best.
I notice a couple of youtube videos where the person uses a product called RG45. This is a copper sheaf mild steel rod. Any thoughts.
Keeping in mind he uses this stuff instead of copper to build his models.
cheers
Dave
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5th February 2015, 09:50 AM #5
RG45 are gas welding rods. A lot stiffer than straight copper wire. Generally only available in approx 600mm lengths (or around that size, I'm estimating). Available in a few different diameters (1.6mm, 2.4mm, 3.2mm, etc).
Not sure how it would soft solder (might be ok), but I expect it could be silver soldered and/or brazed.Cheers.
Vernon.
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20th February 2015, 06:25 PM #6
The other option for steel/aluminium wire would be TIG welding.
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2nd March 2015, 08:48 PM #7
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Ok, I have been able to source some R45 copper sheathed gas welding filler rods. I believe these will be good to use for making figures.
Good thing is I can silver solder them or even spot weld (tac) using the MIG.
Will have to play around and see which gives best results.
cheers.
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3rd March 2015, 07:03 AM #8
I'm not sure if it matters (from the point of view of corrosion), but something to think about - if tack weld you will lose the copper coating at the joint. Silver soldering will actually protect the joint and prevent corrosion (if you clean the flux away properly).
Cheers.
Vernon.
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