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The 95/5 alloy is the nicest Pb free plumbing solder! I still miss the Cd containing brazing alloys for their ease of use; that's with my head - the rest of the innards are happier not being exposed

I try to avoid the phrase "silver solder" nowadays because people use it to mean two entirety different things: silver brazing alloys and soft solder that's 5% silver and 95% tin. The latter is just

I turn brass all of the time on my mini lathe. Use high-speed steel tool bits. High-speed steel can be sharpened better than carbide tools. This is a mini lathe, so cutting speed is not too

C360 turns nice with flat on top HSS on the 7x in my experience. Really sharp with a tiny nose radius worked great for me. I turned almost 50 feet of 3/8" into little 1/2" long orifices and never

Mike, Yes, a welder can provide the juice. I have a carbon arc torch (cheap one) that I've used quite a bit with my AC arc welder. Gives you a lot more heat than gas torches. Roger Cardon

Don’t forget silver soldering. A number of model boilers are sealed using easy flow flux with silver solder. You can’t mix it with soft solder though! Any old soft solder residue has to be

I made a 5in brass cannon from 1.25" C360 brass on a big Southbend lathe at my local Markerspace and plan to try it again on my LMS 7x16. What tooling and speeds are recommended?

I have the same problem, and at times (on motorcycle parts, which are bigger), I've brazed with the work sitting on the burner of the gas stove I have in my basement, with that heat coming up from

For a lot of small projects a Turbo Torch using MAPP gas works fine. The conversion requires replacing the metering orifice with the MAPP specific one. Roy

I've heard brazing referred to as hard soldering, mostly in the AC&R field when using a silver alloy filler rod. Roy

There’s been a couple of plans in Popular Mechanics over the decades for making one of those carbon arc welders. They can be used for brazing. I think have a copy of the articles at home; if I

I have? a vintage? old? welding? electric? machine only a transformer? ?and? tip BUT he said? you? can do? ''broading? ''? put x2? tip? of? carbone? ?like? the onle? in? D batt?

I have a vintage old welding electric machine only a transformer and tip BUT he said you can do ''broading '' put x2 tip of carbone like the onle in D batt zink carbone onr about 1\4 size and

I can "solder" in my sleep but have had problems with brazing. My first limitation is I only have a Turbo torch not oxy acetylene. [email protected]> wrote:

And honestly the only difference between ‘brazing’ and ’soldering’…is the temperature. Both are the same process: joining metal by melting a metal of a lower melting point to ‘wet’ the

Actually, that old plumber's "3 basic rules" apply just as well to brazing as to soft soldering. You're just using different flux and (a lot) more heat. Mike Taglieri [email protected]> wrote:

You do not want to "solder" a steam boiler! You need to braze it. I do have to admit I have soldered a steam coil which was not directly fired. Ralph [email protected]> wrote:

The old plumber who taught me to solder had 3 basic rules: 1. Cleanliness is the key to success - surfaces to be soldered MUST be cleaned to bright, shiny metal. 2. Flux is your friend - apply it to

Johannes, I am not very good at soldering and I am scared of boilers bursting so I use a small air compressor to run my steam engines. Yes the plans were converted to metric by Mr. J. de Waal in New

Hi David A beautiful machinery, keeps us updated. Missing the boiler, is it possible to make one, or do you need a big air pump? And the drawing is in