Boost Joint Quality and Cut Costs: The Essential Paste Brazing & Soldering Design Guide

Unlock the fundamentals of brazing and soldering to optimize your product design, material selection, and manufacturing process for consistent, high-strength, and cost-efficient metal joining:

• Design for Success: Learn how to design joints—including complementary designs, flange, and countersink—to maximize strength and seal while complementing the mechanical integrity of your parts.
• Optimize Material Selection: Get guidance on base and filler metal compatibility, understanding factors like thermal expansion in dissimilar metals and how to approach challenging materials like aluminum and powdered metals.
• Achieve Ideal Joint Strength: Discover the ideal joint clearances (typically 0.002″ to 0.005″) for open-air applications to ensure proper capillary action and shear strength, and see why a correctly brazed joint can be stronger than the base metal.
• Simplify and Automate Production: See how a brazed or soldered assembly can simplify product manufacturing by replacing expensive machined parts with simpler components and learn how to design for automated, high-speed production.
• Avoid Common Pitfalls: Understand issues like Phosphorus Embrittlement and Stress Cracking, and learn preventative design techniques like venting blind holes and keeping threads clear of the joint area.