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How to Braze Your CPV Tube Fittings

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Tube end and fitting socket must be perfectly clean- free from grease, rust, etc.

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Use emery paper to get down to bare metal.

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Apply brazing flux to tube end.

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Apply brazing flux to fitting socket.

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Insert sil-braze ring into socket.

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Push sil-braze ring to the bottom with tube.

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Place assembly on non-flammable surface, or invert in vise. Use acetylene torch or propane bottle to heat tube and fitting.

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Continue heating evenly after water in flux boils away, and flux melts to clear liquid.

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Heat until sil-braze ring melts and rises to form a fillet at juncture of tube and fitting.

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Use water to wash away flux. That’s it. You should have a perfect braze.