How To Solder Brass Sheet Metal

This stand helps prevent the hot iron tip from coming in contact with flammable materials or causing accidental injury to your hand.

How to solder brass sheet metal.

Brass contains both copper and zinc and has a high melting point between 900 and 940 degrees fahrenheit. Copper brass bronze nickel and tin are all metals that can be soldered at soldering iron and propane torch temperatures 400 800f and use solders and fluxes. The metal parts to be joined are heated with the tip of the iron so that they will be hot enough to melt the soft metal solder applied to them. This third metal or solder must melt at a lower temperature than the metal being soldered and be able to adhere to the surfaces being joined.

Using a few simple tools you can form and solder brass sheets and shapes. It is important for a lasting joint that the metal itself melts the solder in this way rather than melting solder onto the iron tip and transferring to the joint because this will achieve only a very. Hard soldering on jewelry requires tighter joints and finer tolerances and the capillary action is the crux of the joint. Most soldering stations come with this built in and also include a sponge or brass sponge for cleaning the tip.

Brazing is distinguished from welding because it uses an intermediary material usually a copper zinc alloy to join the two metal pieces rather than melting the pieces. Silver solder also partially blends with the base metal whereas soft solder is like surface glue and sits on the copper surface and thus is a weaker joint. N ot all metals can be soldered easily. Working with brass is fun and easy.

For this particular project i had a motor gearbox and servo to mo. The process of soldering is actually nothing more than gluing two pieces of metal together with the solder being the glue. It is a favorite of machinists metal artists and the steampunk crowd.