# Metalwork help

**URL:** https://fixed.org.au/t/metalwork-help/68026
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [August 30, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/metalwork-help/68026 "2015-08-30T21:30:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![fixiechampion](https://fixed.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fixiechampion](https://fixed.org.au/u/fixiechampion)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/metalwork-help/68026/1 "2015-08-30T21:30:40Z")

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Hey, trying to wrap my head around what tools I might need for brazing basic steel lugs.

Torch, (metal specific) flux, brass rods and material for brazing. Anything I am overlooking?

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### Author: ![geoff\_tewierik](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/geoff_tewierik/32/1067_2.png) [@geoff\_tewierik](https://fixed.org.au/u/geoff_tewierik)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/metalwork-help/68026/2 "2015-08-30T21:58:07Z")

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Gas for said torch, regulator for said gas, mask to protect your face, gloves for the hands, something to clamp that which is being brazed.

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### Author: ![WestToastPete](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/westtoastpete/32/996_2.png) [@WestToastPete](https://fixed.org.au/u/WestToastPete)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2015, 10:04pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/metalwork-help/68026/3 "2015-08-30T22:04:06Z")

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Just brazing a lug? Flame, glasses, tube, lug, silver, flux, something to hold it all together. Some way of cleaning the tube/lug interface (die grinder, sandpaper).

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### Author: ![whatever\_really](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/whatever_really/32/564_2.png) [@whatever\_really](https://fixed.org.au/u/whatever_really)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/metalwork-help/68026/4 "2015-08-31T00:44:30Z")

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Basically heaps

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### Author: ![fixiechampion](https://fixed.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fixiechampion](https://fixed.org.au/u/fixiechampion)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/metalwork-help/68026/5 "2015-08-31T16:27:08Z")

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Lugs arrived, waiting on tubes and brazing rods.

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### Author: ![nereus](https://fixed.org.au/user_avatar/fixed.org.au/nereus/32/988_2.png) [@nereus](https://fixed.org.au/u/nereus)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/metalwork-help/68026/6 "2015-08-31T18:59:06Z")

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Nice, where are you sourcing the lugs and tubes?

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### Author: ![fixiechampion](https://fixed.org.au/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fixiechampion](https://fixed.org.au/u/fixiechampion)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/metalwork-help/68026/7 "2015-08-31T19:01:51Z")

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Got some lugs from Henry James. Will post some pics a bit later.