My farher (born 1922) was a self employed toolmaker . He made loads of Bronze bearings for the hubs of winding wheels and gears for the lift industry . 🏴
In the trade names "brass" is usually mostly zinc and copper. "bronze" can be anything, including mainly zinc and copper. You could say that brass is a type of bronze. My theory is that you can charge more for "bronze".
Nice video! Are you located in Alaska? If so, I am across the mud pond at the same latitude in Finland. I was just wondering what kind of working/ aprenticeship opportunities for machinists/ engineers around there? Or learning machining? Keep up the informative videos!
We are located in Fox, Alaska - just outside of Fairbanks. As far as machining goes there are paid courses down in the lower 48, but for the most part there's not much in the way of training programs in the state. The university of Alaska has a decent engineering program, but it does lack a lot of the practical side of things.
After years of experience, I thought of an Associate Degree from Ivy Tech, could make me more money. I was disappointed, then the one decent guy, quit, because they wanted to get accredited, and asked him to get a degree. So we got a guy with a degree, without experience, read the book, and didn't understand it. So they may not all be like that, but higher education, seems to be about having a piece of paper, but not understanding how to do the job.
As a welder, it would be interesting to know how to work with that material if I ever encounter it. I literally know zero about working brass/bronze as a base metal. Not a subject the they covered in school back in the day. Only ever had to work with steel/ cast iron/ aluminum.
Yeah I think I remember brazing with oxy / accty is a great way to bond brass n bronze, but there is also tig brazing that I think gives great results, although I only tried tig on steel and alum, so far.
@@allanschmidt8859 trick is preheat and cool it very slowly, good nickel rod. There is still a chance you may hear that ting as it cools and you know it just cracked somewhere. Let it cool naturally it almost always cracks, that's my limited experience with it,
My farher (born 1922) was a self employed toolmaker . He made loads of Bronze bearings for the hubs of winding wheels and gears for the lift industry . 🏴
Well that's certainly unexpected news for me about the 2 metals now having random quantity and even different elements to the original mix.
Never seen such an amount of machines & tools. No wonder your using utube to help describe all the all the possibilities. Great.
In the trade names "brass" is usually mostly zinc and copper. "bronze" can be anything, including mainly zinc and copper. You could say that brass is a type of bronze. My theory is that you can charge more for "bronze".
Nice video! Are you located in Alaska? If so, I am across the mud pond at the same latitude in Finland. I was just wondering what kind of working/ aprenticeship opportunities for machinists/ engineers around there? Or learning machining? Keep up the informative videos!
We are located in Fox, Alaska - just outside of Fairbanks. As far as machining goes there are paid courses down in the lower 48, but for the most part there's not much in the way of training programs in the state. The university of Alaska has a decent engineering program, but it does lack a lot of the practical side of things.
After years of experience, I thought of an Associate Degree from Ivy Tech, could make me more money. I was disappointed, then the one decent guy, quit, because they wanted to get accredited, and asked him to get a degree. So we got a guy with a degree, without experience, read the book, and didn't understand it. So they may not all be like that, but higher education, seems to be about having a piece of paper, but not understanding how to do the job.
As a welder, it would be interesting to know how to work with that material if I ever encounter it. I literally know zero about working brass/bronze as a base metal. Not a subject the they covered in school back in the day. Only ever had to work with steel/ cast iron/ aluminum.
You do lots of welding on cast iron? Always been told its a bear to weld.
can't remember exactly, but I think you would braze it. been forever so I could be wrong.
Yeah I think I remember brazing with oxy / accty is a great way to bond brass n bronze, but there is also tig brazing that I think gives great results, although I only tried tig on steel and alum, so far.
@@allanschmidt8859 trick is preheat and cool it very slowly, good nickel rod. There is still a chance you may hear that ting as it cools and you know it just cracked somewhere. Let it cool naturally it almost always cracks, that's my limited experience with it,
@@jeffmays3608 Nothing worse than hearing that "ting" once you are done.
I wonder if this change impacted the price of bronze vs brass over the years, from an outsider's perspective
Don't think so, copper alloys while they cost money have only doubled in the same time alloy steels have gone up 5x.
Bronzes Copper+Zinc. Brass Copper +Tin*