Brazing removal?

[Richard Farrant]

Some of the posters here, seem to describe brazing as the work of the devil. I have been hands on in repair work on vehicles and machinery for 49 years, brazing, bronze welding, etc. were all methods taught to me and have used them during my working life where required. There will always be a bodger around who misuses techniques making it harder for the next person to recover a bad repair, but that is life.
Just so some of you can look deeper into the technique, here is a link to a company who supplied products in the UK:
http://www.weldability-sif.com/media..._technique.pdf

[rob love]

Stuart: Read post #9 and you will see what repairs I am talking about. Pretty sure we have all seen them. Big globs of brass with the flux overheated and now part of the braze. No real strength. As I said in my earliest post: no doubt there are proper uses for brazing, but I haven't found them. Lynn has given some good examples about where braze actually belongs, as have you. But are these the kinds of things the average CMP restorer is doing? Richard, I would suggest your proper use of brazing is the exception and not the rule. Most of the brazing I have been exposed to is not the kind of work anyone should be proud of.

I'll add a shot or two of items at work waiting for repair from the brazing bubbas.

[chris vickery]

Tig weld everything and solve all your alloy metal problems...

[Darrin Wright]

Previously, I have had to do the same thing.

Thinking back to my trade training days, my instructor always said, 'not too much heat or you will burn the braze and it will not be effective'.
So with that in mind, I use too much heat and burn it out at the same time as using a wire brush to pick up most of the molten particles, flicking them out.
Wire brush/wire wheel after.

I have learnt some info from this thread, from the older hands- thanks