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Companies are facing tremendous economic pressure today, which requires renewed focus on core business practices. Your goals may include increasing workforce skills, improving manufacturing processes and building more robust products while reducing costs associated with labor, field failure and ...

Brazing Components for Refrigeration Today, we address correct brazing alloys as well as proper brazing methods for refrigeration components. Our main topics are: Alloy selection Gas and torch selection Brazing method Nitrogen purge System evacuation and charge Remember, brazing in the HVAC/R ...

Lucas-Milhaupt performed a study on the performance of braze filler metal rings against the performance of hand-fed filler metal rods. We used three heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVAC/R) industry-standard tube sizes. Five trained and certified technicians helped ...

What is dezincification? First, we must understand dealloying-a type of corrosion involving selective leaching or removal of one element or phase with in the material. This selectively removed phase or element from an alloy, leaves behind a porous, spongy mass. Dezincification is a form of ...

Aluminum brazing has become prevalent in the automotive and HVAC/R industries. Most manufacturers are using all-aluminum or mostly aluminum components, including evaporator and condenser coils, distributors, liquid and suction lines. When brazing aluminum, two families of fluxes are commercially ...

Step brazing defined: The brazing of successive joints on a given part with filler metals of successively lower brazing temperatures so as to accomplish the joining without disturbing the joints brazed previously. A similar result can be achieved at a single brazing temperature if the remelt ...

Copper-Phosphorous Alloys for Copper Brazing The alloys copper-phosphorous and silver-copper-phosphorous were patented in the U.S. in 1914 and gained popularity when new refrigerants were developed to replace ammonia. These refrigerants enabled the use of copper to facilitate the increased demand ...

Lucas-Milhaupt Materials Calculators Materials questions? We can help. When ordering alloys, you may have the dimensions or length of a braze joint, but many products are sold by weight. How much should you order? Or, conversely, you may know the mass/weight, but need the length. Our calculators ...

Torch Brazing Stainless Steel Stainless steels encompass a variety of iron-based alloys, having more than 10% chromium, which offer corrosion resistance through a transparent chromium oxide layer. The AWS Handbook lists five categories of stainless steels: Austenitic (nonhardenable) steels (i.e. ...

Radiographic Examination - Discontinuity Images on Film Examining finished joints may be the final step in the brazing process, but inspection procedures should be incorporated into the design stage. Your methodology will depend on the application, service and end-user requirements plus regulatory ...