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It is often used in fabricating structures out of aluminum. Antennas and machinery enclosures are examples I am personally familiar with. Aluminum is tough to braze any other way, because you have little latitude with temperature. The brazing alloys that work with aluminum start to flow at temperatures that are very close to destructive for aluminum, especially in the presence of atmospheric O2. Temperature in dip brazing can be very tightly controlled.

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