[BC] recommended fluxes for silver soldering ground system/radials?

Jerry Mathis thebeaver32 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 26 10:31:23 CDT 2010


Don't know what the price difference would be, but have any of you used Phos-copper for brazing copper together? That's what I first saw used many years ago.

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Jerry Mathis

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Mike McCarthy <towers at mre.com> wrote:
>I've done that too...then stopped when I realized that a simple exothermic
>weld to a short #2/0 wire as a transition is far simpler and faster to
>install. The #2/0 wire then transitions to the strap in the horizontal
>plane which is easier to execute. Long term, the exothermic weld mates
>similar metals, requires less heat overall, is faster, and creates a
>better billet of solder in the transition joint between the wire and
>strap.



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