Quote Originally Posted by basil
Gas welding (brazing?) takes a special knack.
you can braze and weld with a gas setup. the difference is that in brazing the base metal doesn't melt, only the filler rod. the bond between the metal is only made by the filler, kind of like glueing two peices of paper together. i never got to good at the brazing part of it. couldn't keep the damn thing cool enough.