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Posted by Joshua Putnam on February 13, 2005, 5:37 pm
> Anyone tried these?
> Do they work as sell as conventional fittings?
> Anything special about using them?
> Do you still apply solder normally?
>
> It seems to me that if they already have solder in them, that the tolerances
> must be sloppier, but maybe not.
Haven't tried them, but it's a common industrial practice to pre-place
brazing filler in brazed fittings. Tolerances aren't sloppier, the
bulk of the filler is in a ring just outside the joint area and wicks
into the joint when it melts.
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josh@phred.org is Joshua Putnam
<http://www.phred.org/~josh/>
Braze your own bicycle frames. See
<http://www.phred.org/~josh/build/build.html>
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