[CR]brazing...brass...silver...solder

(Example: Production Builders)

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:11:28 -0800 (PST)
From: "Dale B. Phelps" <losgatos@ix.netcom.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]brazing...brass...silver...solder

Many years ago I gained the impression that very close-tolerance lugwork used "silver soldering" as the bonding technique, sometimes combined with match-drilled pinning? My understanding is that silver-solder bonding in very-well-fitted joints required much lower temperatures, thus less thermal stress to the jointwork. Today e-Ritchie mentioned his assessment of any strees-riser-relief benefit of fancy-filigreed lugwork as offset by all the extra thermal stress of flowing brazing into all the nooks and crannies.

My questions: Are these terms used interchange-ably? Is brazing a term applied to brass as well as "silver solder", or is the silver-soldering technique as I've described it different from what is (or may be) predominant practice today?

Dale B. Phelps
Los Gatos California
U.S.A.