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Brazing Alloy Pushed Out of the Brazing Joint

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30x picture with our Proscope. 

I measured the layer of brazing alloy on the side of some places where the tips came off and it is about 0.010” to 0.013”.  I used calipers and measuring both sides at once so this is the total of both sides. 

Where the tips stayed on I got measurements of 0.006” to 0.007”. 

The tips came off where the most brazing alloy had been pushed out of the brazing joint.

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There is evidence of possible gas entrapment as you can see by the bubbles in the above picture.   A very few small bubbles are common in saw blades.       

There are several other similar, very minor things possible happening but mostly this is a really good braze job.  What does concern me is that this is an automatic brazer and it looks like there is a fair amount of variation between one tip and the next in the pressure used.