Brazing Copper Wire To Steel

But will also cost more and requires the use of an acetylene or mapp gas torch to melt the brazing rod.

Brazing copper wire to steel.

Nickel silver brazing welding rods. While brazing typically uses specialized brazing wire to bond the metals you can substitute copper wire for brazing wire. Bronze brazing welding rods. Some forms of steel brazing require special conditions in order to create the desired product and certain types of brazing supplies.

Find us on amazon. Bernzomatic al3 aluminum brazing welding rods. Technically you can either braze or solder though you cannot braze with solder or solder with brazing rods. You can purchase brazing rods with varying of silver content and either flux coated or un coated rod.

Steel stainless steel nickel alloys copper alloys cast iron tungsten carbide. I use the term silver brazing instead of silver solder because technically anything over 840 degress f is brazing. In brazing copper to stainless steel the filler material that is used is usually silver. The higher the silver content the stronger the bond but the hotter the temperature needed to melt the filler metal.

Use the wire brush or emery cloth to scuff the surface of the metal. Brazing copper will provide a stronger bond because of the high of silver in the brazing rod. How to braze stainless steel to copper. Cast iron galvanized nickel steel malleable iron.

This is to give the assurance that zinc and cadmium are not present which can affect the quality of the product. But you can attach copper to steel with silver solder using a propane torch and call it whatever you like. In stock and ready to ship.