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Good day, and welcome to the last day of my career and the final day in the life of Industrial Heating magazine. I hope you enjoy this last blog installment as I ride off into the sunset. If anyone needs to contact me after today, please use the Yahoo email address of reedmiller7.
If someone thinks that large external braze fillets are needed to help “spread the stresses” at the edge of the brazed joint, they should think again! Spreading the stresses at the edge of a joint is NOT the job of BFMs. That can be dangerous.
When bearings are discussed, people often call them ball bearings. In truth, there are several other types of bearings that don’t even use balls. This discussion is all about the balls used in ball bearings.
Figure 2 illustrates a cross-section of a brazed joint. The joint thickness is greatly exaggerated to show the BFM flow in the joint. Notice that the BFM extends all the way through the joint between the two mating surfaces (the faying surfaces).
