People occasionally ask me for information about how to determine the strength of their brazed assemblies, which involve different types of base metals and different kinds of brazing filler metals (BFMs).

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.