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    Bandsaw Blade Brazing(Post)

    Bandsaw (Band Saw) Blade Brazing Six Easy Steps Clean and bevel the blade ends  Clamp blade ends to the fixture Spread the flux Braze Anneal Remove excess alloy Size of Blade With a very smal ...

    Brazing Flux(Page)

    Brazing Flux covers the area being brazed and keeps oxygen away from the materials. A good braze joint is both physically and chemically bound.  If oxygen gets in then the steel or carbi ...

    How Flux Affects Brazing(Page)

    Good & Bad Tips    Good           Bad     Good parts have an even flow to all four corners.  ...

    Advanced Brazing Training(Page)

    Deliverables on Previous Projects Eliminate tungsten carbide breakage entirely Reduce tungsten carbide braze failure to six sigma (3 parts per million) Eliminate rework Improve bo ...

    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 ...

    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 ...

    Simple Solutions to Brazing Problems(Page)

    About 80 - 90% that these answers will solve these problems.  If you want more details you can go to our Braze Failure Analysis page.  Or buy the books.  You can also call 1-800 346- ...

    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).   ...

    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 ...

    CSM Brazing(Page)

    This operation actually consists of silver soldering and requires practice to become efficient at it. There are two generally accepted methods. One is to pre-tin the carbide tip by applying flux to i ...

    Brazing Process(Page)

    Definitions Brazing is the joining of two dissimilar materials using a third material.  brazing alloying and brazing are the same thing except the brazing alloying takes place below 840 F and b ...

    Bandsaw Blade Brazing(Page)

    Bandsaw (Band Saw) Blade Brazing   Clean and bevel the blade ends  Clamp blade ends to the fixture Spread the flux Braze Anneal Remove excess alloy Size of Blade With a very sma ...

    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 ...

    Circle Saw Calculator(Page)

    This utility will help you with industry standard calculation for your circle saws   Circle Saw Outside Diameter: (inch) Circle Saw Plate Thickness: ...

    Brazing Tungsten Carbide in a Notch(Page)

    Method #1 is the most common. Method #2 is easiest, cheapest, most reliable and generally works best.  Method #3 can give a little advantage but that is rarely needed in this kind of an applicat ...

    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 ...

    Band Saw Calculator(Page)

    // 0 && DrivenRPM > 0 && DrivenDiameter2 >0) { var DrivenResult = DrivenDiameter*DrivenRPM/DrivenDiameter2 document.getElementById("CalcResults").style.display="block" ...

    Brazing with Propane(Page)

    Brazing Torch - 1300 F with a Bernzomatic Propane Torch  Here is the answer to whether you can braze with a propane / air torch.   You can but you have to control the environment so t ...

    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 ...

    CSM Carbide(Page)

    There are numerous large books written on carbide, but we intend to discuss those things that should be the most important to you. The carbide industry manufactures several hundred grades of sintere ...