Brazing Stainless Steel To Copper

Generally welding holds stainless steel parts together best.

Brazing stainless steel to copper. This week i want to thank you for helping me out and share what you taught me about. But you can attach copper to steel with silver solder using a propane torch and call it whatever you like. Tune in for today s tips on torch brazing stainless steel. 12 19 2012 02 25 pm 2.

The joint will only be as strong as the silver solder itself. You guys helped me out with a bunch of kick ass brazing tips and tricks. 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.

Bryan explains the difference between his and claytons approaches. Technically you can either braze or solder though you cannot braze with solder or solder with brazing rods. The higher the silver content the stronger the bond but the hotter the temperature needed to melt the filler metal. Clayton peeples shows how to use 45 silver solder to braze steel and copper.

But will also cost more and requires the use of an acetylene or mapp gas torch to melt the brazing rod. What to use to braze copper to stainless steel. You can silver solder stainless to itself or to brass or copper to make easier connections without risk of corrosion problems. You can use any silver solder but you will need an acid based flux.

Brazing stainless steels requires adequate planning as the alloys used to form joints must have properties compatible with the base metal. 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. However a key advantage is that many dissimilar metals can be joined to stainless steels by brazing. The brazing process can yield strong joints that are ductile clean and smooth.