How To Solder Brass Sheet Metal

Using a few simple tools you can form and solder brass sheets and shapes.

How to solder brass sheet metal.

Because brass is a metal that offers both beauty and durability it has many uses. Brazing is a technique for joining pieces of metal together by filling the join between the two metal pieces with a molten intermediary metal. This stand helps prevent the hot iron tip from coming in contact with flammable materials or causing accidental injury to your hand. Brazing is distinguished from welding because it uses an intermediary material usually a copper zinc alloy to join the two metal pieces rather than melting the pieces.

It is important for a lasting joint that the metal itself melts the solder in this way rather than melting solder onto the iron tip and transferring to the joint because this will achieve only a very. Copper brass bronze nickel and tin are all metals that can be soldered at soldering iron and propane torch temperatures 400 800f and use solders and fluxes. The metal parts to be joined are heated with the tip of the iron so that they will be hot enough to melt the soft metal solder applied to them. This third metal or solder must melt at a lower temperature than the metal being soldered and be able to adhere to the surfaces being joined.

The process of soldering is actually nothing more than gluing two pieces of metal together with the solder being the glue. Most soldering stations come with this built in and also include a sponge or brass sponge for cleaning the tip. Silver solder also partially blends with the base metal whereas soft solder is like surface glue and sits on the copper surface and thus is a weaker joint. Brass contains both copper and zinc and has a high melting point between 900 and 940 degrees fahrenheit.

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