LOL! Nope, one's enough. Takes a bit to get hot enough. Didn't get it at 1st but know I see the connector better on the 2nd one. Quite a professional job bud. Knowing your welding skills, I wasn't surprised at the soldering. No wonder you're so good after working on all those government jobs. How many dipsticks can you fit in a 55 gallon drum? Sounds like me & cutting chicken wings. LOL! Lights out - ice cream! Nice of him to give ya a break. Working for yourself is the best for sure. My Dad & brother worked at Tap & Die in Lyndonville. 3 quarter inch rod? Holy crap! Been hit by the metal back years ago. I might burn if the price was right. All 6 in under 8 minutes. txkviking!
Great video Terry working and telling stories is something I have always enjoyed. When I was starting out I would always hang around with the older guys listen to there stories and pick bits and pieces up over the years. They were always enjoyable to be around and never not willing to teach if you wanted to be taught. I am like you welding,fabrication and machining has always come naturally to me I was born to build and fix so thats what I do and enjoy it as much today as when i first started back in the 80's. Thanks for the memories Terry.
Love the "there I was" stories, keep 'em coming. My welding teaching brought in some silver solder one day to let us try it. He was always bringing in things that were welding related but not on our very short program.
Terry enjoying hearing your work history...back in 1975 I work for a family own machine shop..we did a lot of work for the steel mills---it was in Gary, Indiana..I was sent to welding school and did both machining and all the welding..mainly stick a lot of 7018 rod and nickle rod for cast iron. Then we got a job building a distribution system for a steel mill blast furnace. I spent that summer silver soldering pipes valves and it all had to be pressure tested..that how things went in our shop...spent one summer welling cast iron--broken bell housings and feet on large electric motors again from the steel mill--a lot of nickle rod pre-heating stress relieving etc..but I was in my twenties then and thought it was all fun. 100 plus degree heat.. so thankfull I have that oppertunity to learn that skill..
I love using silver solder. I mean just the way it flows and all. This is a perfect example. Glob that flux on and let it do its job lol. I don't know for whatever reason it's so satisfying to me haha. awesome video!
Thanks for the really great video. I do some silver soldering on stainless for the machine shop I work in. It took me a little time to get the hang of it. I wish I would do it more often to stay in the loop of it. I usually use the little Mecco Midget torch to do those small parts. I appreciate you showing us how to do this. Dan.
I used a somewhat similar silver soldering method except with cadmium free *(ESAB) 155 fc Trucote silver brazing rods. Been quite a few years, but it was impressive how tough the brazed joints were even when joining very dissimilar metals.
Yes sir, I love hearing the history of the men who built this country. I'm a certified welder in the carpenters union and just started dabbling with Tig welding. I also love the videos on exotic metals just because I never see them where I am. Thanks again.
Question, I'm trying to silver solder some 1/4 SS tubing to a 1-5/8 tube, both are 304 SS. I'm using white flux and stay brite 15, I just went back and tried it like you were doing and worked like a champ. I was using to much heat and a strong flame. Just watching you was enough to get me back in the grove. Thanks so much
Good chat, now get back to work! lol. I have never done silver solder. Good point you made regarding getting good at something when you do it repetitively daily
I enjoyed this one a lot, I like hearing stories like that, and enjoyed watching you work as usual. Got a kick out of the refreshment break too, being your own boss is awesome! 😎👍🏻
This is a great video-thanks. Can I assume this solder needs an A/O (or P/O is guess) torch. Any idea what temp this solder is good too? Does the solder need to be clean? Thanks
Great work as usual, with a beer even better! Enjoyed the chat, was very well done. Did a ring a year or so ago for my daughter out of .999 silver I cut from an ounce bar, and silver soldered a gold flake to it, replacing one she has worn out after 22 or 23 years of constant wear. I got the first one for her on my first trip to Alaska years ago, the flake of gold worn away years before the ring failed. We'll see how long this one lasts! LOL q:o)>
My poor boss has been using this all week. Well over 2000 parts no bigger than a couple inches. All nuclear work. I'll snap a pic next week and send it to you. Very tedious. Nice job as always slick!
Yes they do machine the OD flush and I set the parts in boiling water to remove the flux. Thank you very much for asking those things. I'm happy you're interested in the process. :D
I've just been shopping for silver solder and reading some spec sheets- that's how I got here! I was slightly wondering if the #56 might be a little better b/c of the tight fit and better color match also. The #45 seems more available. Is this specified, or did you use what you have? I've been trying Easy-Flo 3 (with nickel and of course Cadmium) as a step up from reg'lar Easy-Flo, which I originally got as scrap! On bandsaw blades and light stainless steel structures. I keep trying different solders and fluxes, but all along I know that the problem is me! Not cleaning enough and too much heat, probably. MAN, when it works it's really something! I made some various simple joints on light steel and stainless-steel rods, for the benefit of some students, then each of them got to twist up one of the little tees or whatever, you could bend the things up quite a bit without the silver joint failing. I think this was #45, with a fillet. Everyone was amazed, the word "solder" fools them, it reminds them of electrical solder and they think it's going to be weak, but it might almost be welded!
I'm sure you probably cleaned it up afterwards. Polishing and such-wish you would have shown that. Would you say this is as strong as welding SS? I'm just a small home project kind of guy, so I'm thinking of a little SS project that won't require hi stress joints.
in 1972 i was in area tech school learning a/c repair. was afraid of silver soldering was afraid of burning thru copper tubing. all it takes was doing it and then it comes easy
Do you think tacking parts by spot welding (micro-TIG) is a good way to immobilize them before silver brazing? I need to make thin protrusions on a paper punch, with 1mm blades ending in 5mm half-circles and attached to a thick plate on the other side. They will be somewhat loaded and I need 0.025mm positioning accuracy, so can't TIG them all the way. I am concerned with the possibility of cracks developing from steel tacks embedded in the solder.
@@txsviking Thank you; that's good to know. I wondered if that would be an obvious (to an expert) invitation to disaster. I evaded the issue in this case by tacking outside the final dimensions and grinding the tacks off after brazing. It worked great. But I will try TIG-tacking more liberally in future projects.
Great soldering and great chat Tx!! Some chocolate chip or butter pecan icecream sounds good now!! Yep i'd rather enjoy my job and work for less, then to make more and hate my job. *Have a good'nnn*
Man, you can do all sorts of stuff. That is cool. I need to think of something to get you to make for me just so I can have something made by a legend! Great stuff my friend. Why silver solder vs welding? I can't imagine sitting there assembling all those dip sticks. Dang, that is a ton.
you are very talented with plenty of experience,stuff that sadly is no longer being tought in schools. great story,as long as you didnt work with Rosie the riveter,lol
good job . i have some questions about silver soldering and brazing . what the deference between 45% silver & 65 % silver soldering brazing rods? can i solder or braze non magnetic stainless steel with silver rods ? thanks for sharing.
Very interesting Terry, guess you were born to be what you are. I have poor freehand skills, hence my welding has never been neat. Now I'm struggling to see the join I'm welding. My father however was an excellent welder, Oxy and stick. Obviously many years ago he won the competition for Oxy welding at the show. So much so anyone else didn't stand a chance...true. So they asked him not to enter.
I guess it is because it came natural to me all along but I've had employee's that never could catch on and I would move them into the machine shop. Thanks buddy.
What Gas or mix are you using? Will 100% Acetylene work hot enough? Are these Stainless Steel to Stainless Steel ? And to be certain, your using 45% Silver solder? That is HIGH silver. Could 6% silver work? I used 6% on stainless steel bulk-head fittings to the sides of beer barrels and other thin wall barrels. the bulkhead fittings are solid stainless fittings. No problem with the 6% and liquid paste. But now I am trying to solder SS Tri-Clover fittings onto 3/8 SSteel barb fittings and the liquid paste just "evaporates" and the 6%silver solder quickly beads off.... Any suggestions before I go out and buy this expensive 45% silver solder and paste?
Thank you sir, watching your work and listening to your stories encourage me to try silver solder. A question about the flux you use, is it better than Harris Stay-Silv white flux? You use Harris Safety-Silv 45 but not its flux. I couldn't find Wolverine silver brazing flux in my area, and couldn't find any info about it online as well, not even on Waymill site. Is it discontinued? Any next to the best recommendation?
Really enjoyed your stories! 55 gallon barrels of dipstick parts! Whew! By the way. I am going to put some tungsten carbide teeth on some lathe and mill tooling. I see some people use 5 percent hear and air silver solder, some swear by 45 solder and some say just use the old brass brazing rod. What are your recommendations on the best stuff to use? Appreciate it! Tom
@@txsviking thanks for the reply. I am going to try my hand at attaching some carbide to some boring bars that have broken carbide and I want to make a milling cutter. Thanks, Tom
Hi. What is the brand of the torch and size of the tip? I started to practice silver soldering a few days ago. Your videos helped me a lot. Thank you very much.
Im sure youve told us but where are you from originally? Kinda sounds like Detroit with the tank plant and stuff. Does soldering making you feel sick. Makes me feel dizzy even with fans
I need to silver solder a downstream oxygen sensor stainless bung on a stainless pipe. No cat, so I am thinking the exhaust will never reach silver solder melting levels. Think it will work. It is a step bung and will drop into the thin-walled pipe. Will be using a MAP gas torch. Way back in the 60, I was a Toolmaker and the silver solder wire I have was a grade for soldiering shanks on drills. Not sure of grade. My flux is white like yours. Long dried out but it seems to come back with water. Some of the drills had # 5 Morse tapers and where 3 5/8" diameter and the repair held up as good as new.
I sir. Great chat there! I have a question for you. I work with silver brazing a lot and recently on 95% of the stainless job that we delivered, there’s rust formation. It’s worst on 316. We are using black flux for is decontamination propriety’s and everyone have alway say to us to keep as far as we can from white flux. We built high pressure exchanger. Have you ever seen those kind of problems on one of your job? Don’t have any problem with CuNi steel or Cu.
TIG Welding Only TXSVIKING this is what we thoughts first but we hire a metallurgist who telling us that we under heated and over fluxing. We are trying to desolved the flux with hot water and a cleaning agent. For now it’s look way better but for how long. thanks for the comment
I can tell it takes a LOT of heat to braze stainless...... what I will be soldering the stainless to can't take that much heat. I'll have to use another material. Thanks for the video!
I build oilfield tools and a customer asked me if we could braise stainless... we use a Flux coated silver-nickle rod for tungsten carbide work... would this work with the stainless?
I think I will be watching more of this. Is that Oxy Acetylene? Were you using cadmium bearing silver solder at that time and if so, did it do you any harm?
@@txsviking Thanks for that. It is banned in Europe, I have some from begore the ban but I am afraid to use it. Do you think cadmium free is just as good?
@@txsviking It can still be bought pure and mixed with sterling silver and bronze to make a cadmium bearing solder. However, I think I will not bother, in case of health impacts. I understand it was only used in low melting point solders anyway. It was not used for bronze brazing.
Well had braze copper pins to copper cable on a Million dollar transformer so had to come and watch the expert for a minute, hope some of it run off on me.
Cool, thank you again for your video I had to do some steel to Copper brazing on a new Refrigeration compressor today,( totally different project then you had but fundamentals are the same )and needed a little technique and shopping list tips I got the 45% and the flux you used and was able to get it sealed up the first time...
This may be the dumbest question ever but I am just starting out and pretty much know nothing. I wanted to ask what is the name of that metal plate that rotates hands-free? Where can I find one? Thank you for your help 😊
Another Question for you? I have the ability to get the silver solder to flow real nice,, But after that, I test the joint, I can't brake the weld by hand to easily, but when I do, it seems like the brazing material isn't really sticking, fusing to the base stainless steel. ? Can I email you a photo, picture is worth a thousands mistakes !
txsviking Thanks again, Merry Christmas .... I was lucky and stopped by the supply house and picked up some 1/16 SS rod. I’m burning some nice beads now at 40amps. Figured I’ll tac it in three points and seal it with silver solder..
Yep just like Bruce Lee said. He doesn't fear the person who knows all 100,000 moves, he fears the one person that practices that one punch 100,000 times.
