Brazing Stainless Steel To Copper

Clayton peeples shows how to use 45 silver solder to braze steel and copper.

Brazing stainless steel to copper.

Brazing copper will provide a stronger bond because of the high of silver in the brazing rod. What to use to braze copper to stainless steel. This week i want to thank you for helping me out and share what you taught me about. Brazing stainless steels requires adequate planning as the alloys used to form joints must have properties compatible with the base metal.

The brazing process can yield strong joints that are ductile clean and smooth. You can purchase brazing rods with varying of silver content and either flux coated or un coated rod. Anyone have suggestions on what brazing alloys will work for brazing copper tubing to 304 stainless fittings. However a key advantage is that many dissimilar metals can be joined to stainless steels by brazing.

How to braze stainless steel to copper. The higher the silver content the stronger the bond but the hotter the temperature needed to melt the filler metal. Technically you can either braze or solder though you cannot braze with solder or solder with brazing rods. You guys helped me out with a bunch of kick ass brazing tips and tricks.

But you can attach copper to steel with silver solder using a propane torch and call it whatever you like. You can silver solder stainless to itself or to brass or copper to make easier connections without risk of corrosion problems. Generally welding holds stainless steel parts together best. Ssf 6 silver solder and a propane torch are used to demonstrate how to join a piece of copper tubing to a piece of stainless steel tubing.

Tune in for today s tips on torch brazing stainless steel. This is a plate heat exchanger as an r134 evaporator. 12 19 2012 02 25 pm 2. Bryan explains the difference between his and claytons approaches.