In this month’s article, we continue to look at methods you can use to keep fixturing-weight down to a minimum, especially in furnace brazing, remembering once again that fixtures (baskets, frames, grates, dead weights, etc.) represent a large mass of metal (the material most often used in fixturing) that absorbs a lot of heat and can thus significantly increase the brazing time needed to complete a braze. Make it your job to significantly reduce the amount of fixturing-weight put into your brazing furnace.
In last month’s article, I mentioned that someone increased the productivity of their brazing operations by over 75% when they implemented the fixturing recommendations I made to them during the brazing-seminar they attended (the same recommendations I’m making in this article).