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I filed/sanded the paint off of the joint area.
The burnt looking paint in that photo is because I initially clamped the new piece straight to the fork leg but not long after I started applying heat to the area the clamp expanded and fell off so I had to start again. The flux is covering the clean area.
M_V
By 'paint off' do you mean you just burnt it off? Doesn't look like a terribly clean brazing surface. Although the joint looks strong.
I bow to your experience though I've only done a bit of brazing and that was in a proper workshop and everything was clean and non-structural.