Brazing Stainless Steel To Copper

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

Brazing stainless steel to copper.

Brazing copper will provide a stronger bond because of the high of silver in the brazing rod. 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. Generally welding holds stainless steel parts together best.

But you can attach copper to steel with silver solder using a propane torch and call it whatever you like. Anyone have suggestions on what brazing alloys will work for brazing copper tubing to 304 stainless fittings. How to braze stainless steel to copper. Clayton peeples shows how to use 45 silver solder to braze steel and copper.

Technically you can either braze or solder though you cannot braze with solder or solder with brazing rods. This is a plate heat exchanger as an r134 evaporator. 12 19 2012 02 25 pm 2. You can purchase brazing rods with varying of silver content and either flux coated or un coated rod.

You guys helped me out with a bunch of kick ass brazing tips and tricks. What to use to braze copper to stainless steel. The joint will only be as strong as the silver solder itself. However a key advantage is that many dissimilar metals can be joined to stainless steels by brazing.

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. You can silver solder stainless to itself or to brass or copper to make easier connections without risk of corrosion problems. The brazing process can yield strong joints that are ductile clean and smooth. The higher the silver content the stronger the bond but the hotter the temperature needed to melt the filler metal.