Review Questions
1. An advantage of both brazing and soldering is:
a. Lower production costs
b. Less operator skill needed
c. Many similar and dissimilar materials can be joined
d. Joints have excellent mechanical strength
2. The essential difference between brazing and soldering is the:
a. Types of filler materials
b. Means of automation
c. Melting temperature of the filler metals
d. Melting temperature of the fluxes
3. Joint clearances for both brazing and soldering commonly range from:
a. 0.001 - 0.006 of an inch / 0.025 - 0.15 of a millimeter
b. 0.003 - 0.008 of an inch / 0.08 - 0.20 of a millimeter
c. 0.005 - 0.010 of an inch / 0.127 - 0.254 of a millimeter
d. 0.010 - 0.015 of an inch / 0.254 - 0.381 of a millimeter
4. Another term for capillary action is:
a. Flow
b. Bonding
c. Spreading
d. Wetting
5. A brazing process that does not use torches, brazing furnaces or electric
coils is:
a. Braze welding
b. Silver brazing
c. Dip brazing
d. Electrical bonding
6. A limitation of the soldering process is:
a. Joint brittleness
b. Joints are corrosion prone
c. Joints retain excessive flux residue
d. Lack of mechanical strength
7. Soldering is not used to join:
a. Thermoplastics
b. Metal to ceramics
c. Metal to glass
d. Ferrous to non-ferrous metals
8. In wave soldering excess heat and distortion of the PCB’s is avoided by:
a. The amount of flux applied before soldering
b. Exposing only a small area of the board to the solder at any one time
c. Using special low melting point solder
d. Employing cooling fans as the boards travel through the machine
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Answer Key
1. c
2. c
3. a
4. d
5. c
6. d
7. a
8. b