possible to braze together a manifold?

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01-30-2007, 12:50 PM

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TorganFM

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Re: possible to braze together a manifold?

Brazing is fancy soldering used for copper fittings and ----. You can melt the damn stuff with MAPP gas which isn't terribly hot. Brazing hold pressure nicely, but it sucks for heat. MAPP gas compared to Oxy is like comparing a .22 rimfire to a .30-06. They both will get you, the .30-06 will just hit you harder.

01-31-2007, 03:02 PM

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Re: possible to braze together a manifold?

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Originally Posted by d-man

Brazing is a non fusion type of mechanical bonding where welding is a fusion type bond. You can add filler or atogenously weld (no filler) as is the case with oxy-fuel welding.

With brazing you don't actually melt the two pieces together but rather melt a lower melting temperature material which holds the two pieces of material together. With welding you are actually melting the two metals together.

I said all of that in one sentence.

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Originally Posted by the_visualist

And no, brazing isn't like any kind of welding - welding actually fuses the metal together, whereas brazing adds another metal, and acts sort of like glue.