Welding Over Brass

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Welding Over Brass. For helping use test 360 Brass welding for our upcoming watertight door project. When the zinc boils it will often jump onto your electrode.

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Next you will need to adjust the acetylene gas low until you have achieved a strong oxidizing flame that is sufficient enough to develop a coating on the brass metal. A lot of people would argue that it would be far better to simply braze brass than to weld and in all honestly this is the right attitude more often than not. Welding brass comes in handy for a number of applications that involve little friction.

That combination allows you to create a base metal that can be heated to a nearly unbearable temperature 200F to 250F to form a strong solder.

Before welding the brass find out the zinc content of the material you are going to weld because zinc has a lower melting point than copper. Now that you have cleaned your brass project pieces it is time to solder the pieces together. Set up your butane or oxygenacetylene torch. Brass Brass is a generic term covering a wide range of copper alloys containing additions of zinc.