Soldering, Brazing and Welding

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Soldering, Brazing and Welding by Bernard E. Jones.

Contents

• Soldering, Brazing and Welding5
• EDITOR’S PREFACE6
• CHAPTER I The Various Processes of Joining Metals26
• CHAPTER II Soft Solders28
• Eutectic Alloys.28
• Hardness of Solders.28
• Compositions of Soft Solders.29
• Making Solder Strips, Wire, Tears, etc.29
• Making Solder from Pewter.30
• Making Coarse Solder from Composition Piping.31
• Combined Solder and Flux.31
• Soft Solders that Melt in Boiling Water.31
• Re-melting and Overheating Solder.31
• CHAPTER III Fluxes Used in Soft-soldering33
• Why a Flux is Required.33
• Variety of Fluxes.33
• Preparing Zinc Chloride (“Killed Spirit”).33
• Applying the Flux.34
• Flux Used on Food Containers.35
• CHAPTER IV Soft-soldering with the Copper Bit37
• Copper Bits.38
• Spirit-Heated Soldering Bits.40
• Gas-heated Bits.41
• Stoves for Heating Soldering Bits.44
• Tinning a Bit.45
• Simple Soldering.47
• Reinforced and Filled-in Soldered Joints.52
• Soldering Heavy Milk Churns.53
• Soldering Hole in Enamelled Ware.53
• Soldering Leaded Lights.53
• Soldering Catch on Gun-barrel.53
• CHAPTER V Soft-soldering with Blowpipe or Bunsen Burner54
• The Mouth Blowpipe.55
• Bunsen Burner, Spirit Lamps, etc.56
• Bench Blowpipes.58
• Tapers.60
• Catching-tray for Bunsen Burner.60
• Blow Lamps.61
• How to Operate a Mouth Blowpipe.62
• Typical Blowpipe Jobs.63
• Re-soldering Kettle Spout.66
• Soldering Corroded Metal.66
• Soldering Small Work.67
• Soldering Pipe Joints.67
• Soldering Birdcage Wires.69
• Sweating.69
• CHAPTER VI Soldering Aluminium72
• Solders for Aluminium.73
• Fluxes for Aluminium.74
• The Soldering Bit.74
• The Process of Soldering Aluminium.75
• Soldering Aluminium to Copper or Brass.75
• CHAPTER VII Wiping Joints on Lead Pipes77
• Plumbers’ Solder.77
• Flux.79
• The Cloths.80
• Horizontal or Underhand Joints.81
• Upright Joints.82
• Wiped Joint between Lead and Cast-iron Pipes.85
• CHAPTER VIII Hard-soldering with Silver Solder86
• Silver Solder.86
• Requisites for Silver-soldering.87
• Preparing the Borax Flux.89
• The Method of Silver-soldering.89
• Soldering Small Work with Paillons.90
• Larger Work.91
• Quenching Silver-soldered Work.92
• Removing Soldering Marks.92
• CHAPTER IX Soldering Gold and Silver Jewellery93
• CHAPTER X Brazing97
• Spelter.97
• The Flux.98
• The Method.99
• Brazing-lamps.99
• Gas Blowpipe for Brazing.99
• Making a Gas Brazing Hearth.100
• Brazing Iron and Steel.104
• Brazing Copper Rod.105
• Brazing Key Stems.106
• Cycle Brazing.107
• Brazing Cast-iron.109
• CHAPTER XI Welding Iron and Steel under the Hammer111
• Welding of Steel Specially Considered.111
• CHAPTER XII Making Blowpipes114
• A Simple Gas Blowpipe.116
• Proportion of Air to Gas.117
• Capacities of Blowpipes.118
• Large and Efficient Blowpipe.118
• CHAPTER XIII Managing Blow-lamps119
• CHAPTER XIV Making Blow-lamps122
• CHAPTER XV Electric and Thermit Welding Briefly Considered127
• Arc Welding.129
• CHAPTER XVI Oxy-Acetylene Welding131
• Welding Copper.135
• Welding Aluminium.138
• Welding Cast-Iron.139
• CHAPTER XVII Lead Burning143
• Transcriber’s Notes155
• THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE157

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