Fun TIG Brazing Project with Silicon Bronze 

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Awesome work, Justin! It was a ton of fun and a true honor to be part of it.

A trick I found for getting sharp even lines when I plan on grinding down the braze is to fully weld the parts together then take a die grinder with a cut off wheel and make a groove along the edges using the wheel to keep the width the exact same, then add in the braze how ever sloppy it needs to be with a rather cold arc to insure I don’t melt the base metal at all and then grind it all down smooth, leads to there being a perfect line of bronze with sharp edges.

Silicone bronze was the best filler I used when i first learned. Its really forgiving as far as technique is concerned. It gave me a chance to get some false confidence and get over the i give up hump.

Dude. When I saw him punch timwelds in the promo I was blown away!!! Not even selling himself and not baiting clout for being a “good guy”. Keep up the good work brother! I love it!

Great video, used this process yesterday on some vintage waterlines on a 10M+ 1963 Ferrari 250 Spyder

Neat project idea, one trick I heard when I started welding was when you light up to braze, pedal till you get a small puddle, then back off to the puddle goes solid them start with the filler, it worked well enough on the only job I've used brazing on

With the rust and the dissimilar metals being brazed you added something different to an otherwise pretty simple design. Love it.

Incredible metal / chemistry lesson. Fascinating finished piece.

I’ve been doing this for the last 6 months at my job and I’m Now learning what I’m actually doing. That’s crazy, now I know the name of a new skill I didn’t know I had. Crazy

I used to do a lot of emergency repairs to copper high frequency welding components using silver brazing rods, they flowed very well and it was super quick.

One of the few I see do things right. Thanks for that.

I just used some SilliB last night to make a non-marring, extended punch for driving out axle bearing races. Tig brazing can definately be a practical tool as well as artsy.

Sometimes I just sit n watch while having a beer while you teach me how to practice😂

Thanks Justin. I'm really learning a lot from you!

Usually brazing is done by bringing the base metal temperature up to where the filler will melt, not so much heating the filler only, like with using a torch. Interesting that you say you shouldn’t heat the base metal with the arc, not saying that’s wrong though. Silicone bronze brazing can look very nice though so maybe a bit more to it than this.

Love sil bronze low settings and easyflow and less cleaning nice copper colour and just as nice as stainless when that shows its colour ( golden ) May I suggest you try tig welding led if your playing sil bronze as that was another skill I learned when I used to make x Ray gear

Dude, this little project turned out awesome!!!

Arigato sensei. You are so rad for putting out videos like this.

Seems this will be a great way to rekindle my brazing with a flame skills/passion. I made my bikes that way a few years back. Nice piece. I'm going to try the rust recipe now for a non-welding project that requires "patina". One can create pitted steel with hot bleach (very dangerous and stinky) be careful out there.

Finishing up a sculpting class for a fine art degree and all we've been doing is working with silicon bronze. That stuff gets super hot, but it's really easy to weld due to the way it conducts heat. It's super hard too.

you are the first youtube welder/fabricator to admit, however indirectly, that you can weld with Silicon Bronze. I can't tell you how many arguments that i have gotten into with so called master welders and welding school teachers on the topic.

Very cool - I recently made a 7 1/2" square shelf out of jam nuts using fusion welds on the under side.

I would love to visit your shop when I get out to Vegas. Cool projects galore!

Silicon Bronze is a good filler for rust patches and quarter/rocker panel seams when doing body work.

Brazing is called hard-soldering in Dutch, which I think is a term that really covers what's going on.

Not so long ago I was doing this kind of things with my key. That key for my home door lock. It was copied quite bad so continuously stucks while locking/unlocking door. And last time it made me mad and I just grabed a TIG torch, silver-coper-phosphorus brazing stick and brazed-off all the grooves on that key. And then it took about an hour and a half to make the grooves back little-by-little continuously fitting it trying to turn the key in the lock.

love the new Intro...Bravo....cheers from Florida, Paul

A nice bit of sarcasm I haven’t seen out of you for quite a while. Refreshing

I feel like there was a bit of This Old Tony in this video.

Love the unbalance color look !!!

That looks amazing Justin 👏

That was pretty cool. At first i was thinking leave the welds/braze joints, i always like the look of the welds better than when they are ground down smooth. But in this case, idk, they both look equally as cool, especially with the contrast with the silconbronze

Whoa 0:37 very nice touch on that hidden message there buddy. Very nice!

Can't wait for my class in May!

That was fun to see the process and finish.

It would be great if you could do a "where are they now" video, and include the de-chromed re-chromed cast aluminium Harley Davidson bracket repair. : )

Great video Justin, I like how it turned out too

that turned out brilliant! congrats on 500k subscribers

That mug at 3:58 earned you a like 😂

Once got in a bind swapping out a dying Chevy 305 for a running 350 salvaged from a van. Brother had limped his '82 Camaro in from Texas to Florida and only had a weekend to visit dear 'ol Mom and swap out the engine. Of course, things were not exactly plug and play on several fronts and the SS line from the steering pump did not fit. Being 2am on the day he had to start the drive back, ended up cutting up old and new SS lines and MIG welding them together with ER70-S2 to achieve a fit. It was all we had to work with at the time. Told him this was a metalurgical bad idea and it could fail at any time, but it might get him back to Texas where a proper new line should be sourced immediatedly. He drove the car as was for several more years before he sold it, butchered PS line and all. I was surprised to learn that that the welded line held for all that time. Not advocating doing something like that, just a story of what was. Currently learning to TIG weld and it is not as easy the pros make it look. Many thanks to TFS for all the fine tutorials. Now it comes down to a lot of practice and many an ugly weld.

So cool. How about a video on that grind table setup ?

lower/proper heat produces better bead appearance aswell as a larger argon cup

The silicone gag killed me

Love your content man! You videos helped me get started on my venture into tig welding.

"Ugly is temporary". You sir have never gazed upon my mug.

just like the way you explain stuff and do stuff great piece love your work

Haha love the Treasure of Nadia intro music.

Learning was fun. Thanks.

Great video Justin- I started TIG brazing SilBro on DC, which was sluggish, scummy, & hard to wet.....& then discovered AC; which works better (for me) for both SilBro & ALBro. Give it a try. Thanks again for another great video-

Good job sharing

Before you sanded it down it sort of reminded me of the look of leaded glass, then once you rusted it it sort of does again. Pretty cool project.

Awesome idea!

The damn things are wicked strong!

Please don't hate. I'm genuinely asking bc I don't know and want to learn. Is this similar to soldering a joint more than welding?

did brazing for hvac for 20 years

Another excellent video!

instead of rusting it you could have used black iron oxide on the non-stainless steel. If you boil it in water the red rust will transform to black on molecular level, but will still be weak and porous like red/brown rust usually is, but will look black like magnetite.

Exotics lookin mad different

Very cool project, might have to give it a try myself. Ciao, Marco.

Looks like the steel filler wire on the stainless based did not rust as expected. Am I correct?

They make a chemical cleaner to get rid of the steel contamination on the stainless steel.

Been waiting on this video! Silicon bronze is kool shit! It comes on a roll for mig welding as well! I been experimenting with it! I look at it like your gluing metal together! It’s strong as well!

you know, as a metal sculptor, I really didn't like the title. However, I get where you are coming from from a presenters perspective, as your world is a bit different. I will say this - Tig brazing is WAY harder than it looks. It takes almost as much and sometimes more prep and attention to fit up than tig welding, especially if your not tack welding with tig first and only brazing. Heat distortion is a real and challenging thing in brazing. Also, artwork has NO room for error in blending and surface finish, something that is quite different in fabrication. cheers

Great piece! I don't think those brazes were ugly. It's quite hard to stack dimes with that stuff I think because it's slow to cool (although it can be done)

Great info 👍🏽

What an amazing video!

I want to try this on a old rust pitted cam I have to see how it wears.

Hi how are you? I think I have watched every video you have ever put out and love it....I myself want to get into the tig welding (I went to school to weld but that was forever ago and honestly I'll be starting all over again) but the reason I'm writing is my 10 year old daughter wants to be a welder and take the course in our local tech school, I really want her to excel and go in and smoke the class lol...long story short do or would you be able to have her as a complete beginner in any kind of course you offer?

How did this make it to my recommended? Oh i know! Its bc he has great content!!

nicely done.

i made a forget thing for my flower bed behind the house. intent was to make a tree, but it´s an art, because i don´t know, what that actually is :D

Bleach will also rust steel as well.

Well done 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

for anyone that want to know what brazing actual is is basiccy heating the metal with a TORCH and using a rod to melt and basically STICK them together, brazing isa extremely weak and not used anymore giving Mig is so much easier, faster and stronger.

I really enjoy your content mate just curious what ever happened to the mighty max build you started a while back

"Hey how about a hand job"? - "Dude, I just found these goggles ffs" 😁

So it’s basically soldering?

How do you get into the custom automotive industry?I have my qualification in Australia as a Boilermaker/Welder or in other terms Fabricator/Welder. I worked for an autobody builder but that wasn't quite it. Ngl it's fun building custom 4x4 barwork

would it be OK to citric acid passivate that part to remove the iron contamination from the stainless?

Man that's fucking COOL.

I have always thought of brazing like hot glue. Here is an interesting question. Is hot gluing technically a type of brazing? I know it isn't metal, but they use the term welding for plastic welding, so can you call hot gluing "rubber brazing"?

You can also use an oxy acetylene torch or even a HHO torch what the fine nozzle under oxy-acetylene for brazing ialert oxy-acetylene brazing oh high school that was the first thing he looked made us do in Auto Body before even let us touch a welder

My silicone bronze brazes were looking like this until I played around with my settings and figured out if you pulse at about 1.3 to 1.6 pulses per second at the right amps for the material thickness you get really nice stacked dimed shiny appearance with the silicone bronze. Without the pulse silicone bronze just welds like absolute chit seems to get dirty real easy or thats my experience anyway.

Can you use 9%nickel bronze as a filler rod (old formula 1 race car space frame used this filler rod with oxy)

Awesome, new vid!

Jesus man, I went from one auto-suggested video to dozens of hours of watch time and buying a tig welder. This shit is fascinating.

Grest video Justin. Inspired me to go try tig brazing again. Just tried for the first time last week to repair a cast iron hand plane that had crack. Sib refused to wet out. Acted like solder without flux. Anyone here have any advice?

perfect

Wait your in Vegas?

Great video! I know I've used lye to clean up aluminium parts before anodising them, wonder if this would help clean the parts instead of using lots of disc's?

Your implication of Silicone Rubber are incorrect, its actually the periodic element Silicon that is used in the filler rods, the same element use the make IC's "integrated circuits", So had you thrown a bunch of IC's in your bucket then that might have been more appropriate vs the silicone rubber :) -- just my observation, Love your videos...

Nice work! 👍💎👊

is weldmetalsonline your company?

When I heard silicone mentioned I got real upset and actually paused the video to type an educational comment regarding the difference between silicon and silicone. I nearly posted it but luckily I decided to keep watching the next 30 seconds of the video first and discovered that you were not in fact actually grossly misleading the public in terms of metallurgy as I originally thought. I will say though that using the label "SiB" is kind of confusing since it almost looks like Silicon boride, and as far as I know there's no Boron in this bronze.

What happened to that truck you was building?

Been tig welding steel with stainless filler with no problems, it will still rust a bit tho, but it works just fine for what i needed :-)

Love your channel

how did you get into that feild of welding, thats like one of my dream jobs but idk how to get there. any tips, or would be sick if you made a video on what you do

The er70s2 on the triangle didn’t rust