ORIGINAL: pimmnz
mrdhud, Landing gear wire (piano wire, spring steel wire) is a hardened and tempered high carbon steel, if you use any brazing wire (ezeflow, silver solder, etc) then the heat required to fuse the solder will render the wire hard and brittle. Unless you can heat treat the assembly and re-temper it afterwards, without re-melting the solder, then best to use ordinary 'soft' solder and fuse wire binding on normal spring steel assemblies. Done properly it will be stronger than you need, and much easier to do. But then you probably knew that already...
Evan, WB #12.
..and I thught getting piano wire hot enough to silver solder something to it would anneal it rather than make it brittle.<span style="color: #003366"> <span style="color: #0000ff">I learn something new every day!</span></span>
Does that mean that the prebent wire we get in kits is all bent cold? Ithought it may have been heated and then retempered.????