Description
Get ready for three days of hands-on learning, expert instruction, and real-world brazing insights at Lucas Milhaupt’s Fall Braze School — hosted onsite at our Milwaukee headquarters!
This isn’t your average classroom training. Our hybrid format blends in-depth technical education with hands-on lab time, giving you the skills to braze smarter, faster, and more reliably. Bring your own parts and products — our engineers will help troubleshoot and guide you through best practices tailored to your applications.
Unlike others who offer classroom-only sessions (at a higher cost), Lucas Milhaupt invites you into the lab to work directly with the experts — all for less money and more value.
✅ Learn proven tips and techniques
✅ Work with real alloys, tools, and your own components
✅ Tour our state-of-the-art facility and lab
✅ Network with other industry professionals
✅ And don’t miss our unforgettable corporate night out!
This course will cover:
- BRAZING DEFINITIONS
- How to define filler metal behavior and understand the common language of brazing when analyzing a braze process
- FILLER METALS
- Selection Criteria, Applications, and Form
- BASE MATERIALS
- Potential concerns when brazing different base metal compositions and the best practices to do so
- SIX FUNDAMENTALS OF BRAZING
- The Lucas Milhaupt core fundamentals to achieving a high integrity braze joint
- JOINT DESIGN
- How to design and configure your assembly to reduce stresses and achieve the best quality braze joints
- BRAZING CONSUMABLES
- An overview of fluxes and filler metals used in the braze industry as well as different applications and environments that call for specific consumables
- PREFORM DESIGN
- How to determine the right size preform for your application that will provide a robust joint without needlessly wasting material and money
- BRAZING FIXTURES
- How to design fixtures that will provide adequate support for braze assembles without affecting the integrity of the brazing process
- HEATING METHODS
- An overview of the different heating methods and appropriate filler metals used in brazing such as torch, induction, resistance, vacuum furnace, and more
- CORROSION
- A review of the different types of corrosion braze joints can see in service and how to counteract the effects
- INSPECTION / BRAZING DISCONTINUITIES
- Different inspection methods that can be used to determine braze joint quality and what to look for during inspection
- BRAZE SAFETY
- How to create an environment that emphasizes safety during a brazing process
- BRAZE VIDEOS/TUTORIALS
- Video demonstrations on brazing techniques and common mistakes
This course is catered towards anyone and everyone involved in the braze process: operators, technicians, engineers, designers, quality inspectors, and managers. Each individual, regardless of their role, will learn valuable tips and techniques relevant to eliminating variability in their process and improving first pass yield. There will also be time available to review attendee applications, so please come ready to discuss your brazing process!
Location:
Lucas Milhaupt
4850 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Suite 200
Cudahy, WI 53110
Registration Fee:
- $2,300/person
- $2,100/person if 2+ registrants from same company
Included in Course Registration Fee
- All course materials
- Application discussion and troubleshooting
- Daily continental breakfast
- Daily lunch
- Snacks and refreshments during breaks
Not Included in Course Registration Fee
- All other meals
- Travel expenses
- Lodging
- Incidentals
Ready to take your brazing expertise to the next level?