Subject: Re: MIG vs. brazing for bike frames

From: [email-masked] (Joshua_Putnam)
Date: 5 Oct 1995 20:26:35 GMT

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Anran Vida-Szucs) writes:

>Mike Rehmus  <[email-masked]> wrote:

>	[of an engineer, Mike scrawls^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hrecalls...]

>>He said that a properly prepared joint is 3X stronger than
>>the base metal.  

>	What does "properly prepared" mean?  Something about
>	the statement as you wrote it does not sound right,
>	or at least incomplete.  Could you elaborate?

Joint tolerances are one important factor, certainly: the
tighter the clearances, the stronger the joint, until you
get to the point the joint is too tight for the brazing
filler to wick into it.
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