Where do you stand on one of the eternal questions of metalwork: brazing, or welding? As your Hackaday writer, and the daughter of a blacksmith, it’s very much on the welding side here.

Brazing equipment includes systems, components, or tools involved in brazing operations. Brazing is a materials joining process similar to welding; the American Welding Society (AWS) formally ...

Topics include types of copper tubing, cutting, bending, swaging, flaring, torch safety, brazing, soldering, and leak testing. Click here to view a sample of this book.Registered proctors can review a ...

Fluxes designed for specific applications must be capable of handling heat sufficient to join the metal parts. For example, because brazing requires higher temperatures than soldering, brazing fluxes ...