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My Smart has an expensive stainless exhaust silencer. It's very thin single skin stainless and has a split on one edge. Can this be brazed ?
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Would do - if I had a TIG and knew how to use itTIG it
Probably incorrect flux or insufficient heat in the base materialI am going to say no! I have a vague recollection of something to do with capillary action, and stainless steel not allowing this to happen, whether this is to do with expansion rate, or oxide forming I can't remember, maybe we need a welding engineer to tell us:
In the very early 1980s the company endeavoured to repair a number of large industrial stainless steel flasks, these had been subjected to much heating and cooling, and the material structure had changed, and was at the stage where it would crack wherever it had been welded, at some time, bronze welding was attempted, the weld metal formed into globules and remained as such despite the addition of more heat and flux, after cooling, the globules were knocked off, much in the same manner as spatter: