How To Solder Copper Sheets Together

Our instructional 19 page color booklet on the basics more of how to solder copper brass bronze.

How to solder copper sheets together.

Your best option is to use a silver solder. Soldering brazing and welding are similar but differ in small ways. Feed lots of solder between the copper and the stainless to create a nice fillet. Bringing together copper and silver sheet can make your design stand out with contrasting colours and textures that will set you apart from other designers.

This should give you a very sturdy structure to solder. Leave very still until the solder hardens. There s only about 3 5 silver in the solder you can get higher amounts but it gets more expensive but that small amount helps with strength. Copper pipes and other copper parts can be soldered using various metals with low melting points.

It takes you from tools supplies needed charts of metals cleaning flux safety to soldering with a demonstration exercise that you can do. Welding differs from soldering in that in welding the base metals are actually melted and fused together creating a very strong bond. Soldering glues the pieces of metal together by melting a softer metal to act as an adhesive. Once the soldering material cools an air tight joint is formed sealing the tube and the fitting together.

Flux and solder the copper with a torch as usual making sure to allow the copper to heat the sheet and not ever using the flame on the stainless. Tradesmen often use brazing or welding instead to create stronger joins between the metals. Here s our beginners guide on how to solder copper and silver together using some basic tools and techniques. This is fine for soldering electronic components together but isn t really strong enough nor does it give a great bond to copper and brass.

Quickly learn how to solder wire or sheet metal. Soldering uses a lower melting point filler metal than brazing does. Today copper water pipes are soldered with lead free flux and silver alloys. While soldering is useful for many purposes it has limitations.