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    Brazing Alloy- Choosing the Right Braze Alloy for Specific Applications(Page)

    Buy Braze Alloy or Brazing Services Common Braze Alloy Sizes and Yields Brazing Alloys (Silver Brazing)  The difference in brazing alloy performance can be tremendous  ...

    Holes in Braze Alloy(Page)

    The surface treatment on the carbide did not stick to the carbide.   There is the gray film on top of braze alloy. There are a great number of bubbles on the braze alloy which are probab ...

    Brazing Alloys(Page)

    Your Very Best Source For Silver Brazing & Brazing Metals If you have any brazing problems or if you want stronger joints we can almost certainly help.  We can probably save you money, as ...

    Brazing Alloy Pushed Out of the Brazing Joint(Page)

    30x picture with our Proscope.    I measured the layer of brazing alloy on the side of some places where the tips came off and it is about 0.010” to 0.013”.&nb ...

    Braze Alloy Sizes and Yields(Page)

    Buy Braze Alloy or Brazing Services Brazing Alloy Sizes and Yields   These are the four most common carbide brazing alloys:   Common Name Aws # Silver % ...

    Calculating the Amount of Brazing Alloy to use(Page)

    Braze joints are strongest at about 0.0005” (1/2 of one –thousandth of an inch) but this is not a good standard for two main reasons: As the braze joint gets thicker it provides signi ...

    Brazing Services and Braze alloy(Page)

    With over 25 years of experience in brazing, Carbide Processors can help you with: Finding and buying the Right Braze Alloy and/or Solder Brazing Services Failure Analysis Braze Training ...

    Brazing Ceramics with Standard Alloys(Page)

    Brazing Ceramics Simple, Cheap and Very Strong Ceramics can now be metallized for brazing by a simple, cheap plating process. A ceramic such as Alumina is plated with a metal and then the p ...

    Brazing Carbide(Page)

    Buy Carbide Braze Alloy or Carbide Brazing Services  While we no longer offer brazing services our founder, Tom Walz, was an innovator in the industry and has c ...

    Brazing with Trimetal Shim(Page)

     Braze alloy / Copper / Braze alloy sandwiches    Steel and carbide both grow during heating.  Steel grows about 2.5 to 3 times as much as carbide.   A soon as ...

    Router Bit Failure(Page)

      Problems Numerous holes and voids Areas where the braze alloy did not stick to the steel Areas where the braze alloy did not sick to the carbide     &nb ...

    Brazing and Welding- Important Differences(Page)

        Click here to shop for Braze Alloy and Brazing supplies   Welding: Two metals are melted together.   Brazing: Two or more materials are joined by the use ...

    Brazing Tungsten Carbide(Page)

    I routinely get calls from people who are having trouble brazing carbide and don’t know why.  Brazing tungsten carbide is a very easy and reliable process if a few simple steps are taken b ...

    Can Cleaners Harm Saw Blades(Page)

    Also See: Soaking Saw Tips in Oven Cleaner First, there are thousands of grades of carbide so discussing the properties of carbide is like discussing the properties of wood. Therefore, I suppos ...

    Cutter Failure(Page)

     Bad Surfaces And Too Much Heat    Several problems  Sloppy brazing  - the braze alloy ran all over the steel  Uneven heating.  Th ...

    Pretin(Page)

    Pretin, Pretinning, or Tinning   Tinning, Pretinning or Pretin is applying brazing alloy to one or both parts separately then putting the parts together and heating them to complete th ...

    Parts of a Saw Blade(Page)

      This is, at best, a brief overview of a modern precision saw blade.  It is designed to give at least some idea of the factors we take into consideration when designing a saw blade. Adva ...

    Braze Failure(Page)

     Solutions to Brazing Problems (This is an overview article largely based on customer reports.  Most of this is covered in much greater depth with photographs in other articles and in ...

    Debarker Tip Breakage(Page)

      Induction Brazing   History There is greatly increased breakage coincident with the switch in brazing alloys from BAg-3 (50% with Cadmium) to BAg-24 (50% Cadmium free).   ...

    Welding Carbide(Page)

    Welding Tungsten Carbide  From the book Building Superior Brazed Tools  Buy the Book  Weldable tungsten carbide is generally used to mean the joining of tungsten carbide to steel wit ...