Inlaying copper and bronze into steel

[Hillbillysmith]

PBARNHART, I live in NW Ohio. Where is this going to be? Btw, U can use a torch and braze both copper and bronze and make it fuse to steel. I do it all the time with my projects. You can use house hold 12 GA. romex wire for the copper part of the bazing, and you can buy bronze filler rod at the local welding supply. The bronze rod will have a flux already on it, but the copper from the house will not (natually). You do not NEED a flux for the copper. All the flux does is remove oxidizers from the base metal. I recomment getting flux for it though. Whether you use flux or not, make sure the base metal is VERY clean. I mean shiny with a grinder, not just a wire brush. You can also buy a small tin of dry flux powder. To use it, all you do is swipe the flame over the copper (to Bring the moisture out of the pours of the metal to the surface), and dip it into the tin of flux. Walla! You now have a fluxed copper filler wire. Just go back after it cools and grind and pollish all of it up and you're good to go.

P.S: To prevent corrosion of the copper/bronze, just get a can of rustolium metal clear coat. Don't worry about it corroding with the two dissimmiliar metals next to each other. That only happens with aluminum and steel. Plus it has to be exposed to prolonged weathering. Hope this advise helps.

-Hillbillysmith