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- - By arboga Date 09-17-2002 14:20
I've been trying to find literature about the subject. I have no trouble finding out about GTAW but I need information about brazing. Is it at all possible to join zinc-galvanized thin sheets with GTA-brazing? There are some requirements on strength and uniform quality.
Does anyone know where to find accurate literature?
I would be very thankful for some help on this.
/Elisabeth
Parent - By Niekie3 (***) Date 09-17-2002 17:28
My (limited) experience is that a GTAW arc is too hot to braze with very successfully. It tends to either melt the base metal, or vapourize the filler.

Where I have used it successfully was on Cu (big heat sink) where the GTAW arc was used to heat the Cu base metal locally while another person was melting the braze (silver solder in my case) with an Oxy-Acetylene flame.

Maybe someone else has successfully brazed steel with GTAW?

Hope this helps

Regards
Niekie Jooste
Parent - By billvanderhoof (****) Date 09-18-2002 04:26
Google search for galvanized joining turned this up.
http://www.wisconsinwireworks.com/gmaw_weld.htm
Sounds like what you are looking for. (I don't work for them.)

The time proven way of joining galvanized is solder.

Bill
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