Brazing Copper Wire To Steel

You can purchase brazing rods with varying of silver content and either flux coated or un coated rod.

Brazing copper wire to steel.

Technically you can either braze or solder though you cannot braze with solder or solder with brazing rods. While brazing typically uses specialized brazing wire to bond the metals you can substitute copper wire for brazing wire. The higher the silver content the stronger the bond but the hotter the temperature needed to melt the filler metal. Nickel silver brazing welding rods.

Choose from our selection of brazing wire including brazing alloys without cadmium high strength brazing alloys for copper and more. Cast iron galvanized nickel steel malleable iron. In brazing copper to stainless steel the filler material that is used is usually silver. Bronze brazing welding rods.

Brazing copper will provide a stronger bond because of the high of silver in the brazing rod. Use the wire brush or emery cloth to scuff the surface of the metal. But will also cost more and requires the use of an acetylene or mapp gas torch to melt the brazing rod. Some forms of steel brazing require special conditions in order to create the desired product and certain types of brazing supplies.

Bernzomatic al3 aluminum brazing welding rods. Find us on amazon. I use the term silver brazing instead of silver solder because technically anything over 840 degress f is brazing. Brazing is a technique that allows you to join and bond two pieces of metal permanently using a torch and some form of filler metal.

In stock and ready to ship. Steel stainless steel nickel alloys copper alloys cast iron tungsten carbide. This is to give the assurance that zinc and cadmium are not present which can affect the quality of the product.