We braze thousands of special cooling baffles for our customer each year, mainly thin sheet-metal AMS 5536 (Hast-X) parent material and BNi-2 braze powder with overall good results.

Brazing expert Dan Kay answers a reader's question about fixturing.

We pick up where we left off last time with the procedure for making brazing paste.

Brazing furnaces today often contain a lot of very heavy fixturing materials in their brazing chambers. This “fixturing” includes all the heavy-metal structures in the furnace hot zone (e.g., grates, trays, racks, baskets, etc.).

Can I make my own brazing paste by mixing a gel binder with a brazing filler-metal powder, or should I only purchase pre-mixed pastes from filler-metal suppliers?

Brazing expert Dan Kay answers a question about outgassing of brazing paste binders during heating.

Titanium turnings are an excellent “gettering” agent for use in vacuum brazing furnaces.

Dan Kay answers a question about C/C spring fixtures for brazing.

This post concludes our discussion of torch-brazing procedures.