Originally Posted by guy153

I was interested to see Paul Brodie attaching seat stays with silver, without really a fillet, just using the kind that flows in. My understanding is that silver is the strongest way to do that kind of joint. But if you don't have a decent fillet, or some surface area such as is provided by a lug, a "flowed-in" joint like that will not be as strong as a weld or a fillet braze, i.e. will it ultimately fail before the parent tube does.