Intro: Silver soldering with induction heating A full treatise on silver soldering (otherwise known as hard soldering) would be an extensive document, and all I want to cover here is the basics. A serious job such as constructing a model locomotive boiler re…

Intro: Melting Gold and Silver Everything for Gold and Silver Melting, it used to be that when melting gold, people used a blow torch, then a torch, then an electric melter and then an induction melter. Whatever your choice, we have the torch, the electric m…

Intro: Bin Brazing Pin Brazing forms part of a technology developed in Sweden throughout the latter half of the 20th century by AGA. The purpose, for attaching current carrying cables to what were deemed Sensitive Substrate Materials, or in this case Railroa…

Intro: Fusing the butt joint Objective Fuse elastomer (TPE) tubes together in two ways, as a butt joint and as a overlap joint.Material PeBax tubing 3/16” (4.76) OD, 1/8” (3.18 mm) ID and slightly largerStainless steel Teflon coated mandrel 1/8” (3.18 mm)…

Intro: Heating brass mandrel die Objective Water-cooled brass mandrel die, nylon LDPE catheter, “K” type thermocouple and temperature controller.Material materials, supplies involved in the applicationTemperature 400F (204C)Frequency 325kHzEquipment Power …

Intro: Heating steel mandrel tip Objective Heat a water-cooled steel mandrel to 700F (371C) to form a high quality Teflon catheter tip.Material Teflon catheter tubing, mandrel assemblyTemperature 600-700F (315-371C)Frequency 376 kHzEquipment • Power of 10kW…

Intro: Heating Catheter Tipping Die Objective: To heat an aluminum catheter tipping die to above 2850F within 2 to 5 seconds for the forming of catheter material. Presently, heating is performed in 15 seconds with older induction equipment. The customer woul…

Intro: Heating fan blades for welding Objective To uniformly heat jet engine turbine fan blades to 1800F (982.2C) within five minutes for a welding applicationMaterial Jet engine turbine fan blades with 2”(50.8mm) length tipTemperature 1800F (982.2C)Frequen…

Intro: Soldering Co-axial Wire Objective To solder center-conductor and shielding braid of wireassemblies to 500 (250) F(C).Material • Customer-supplied assemblies• Temperature indicating paint• Flux-cored solder wireTemperature 500 (250) F (C)Frequency 2…

Intro: Soldering wires onto connector Objective Heat connector assemblies for solderingMaterial Device assemblyTin plated brass terminals Solder pasteTemperature 500F (260C) 5-7 secondsFrequency 360 kHzEquipment Power of 6 kW induction heating system equippe…