Patent ID: 7331755

Claim:
A method for newly assembling a vane sector for a gas turbine engine, wherein the vane sector includes an airfoil vane and a platform, said method comprising: defining a brazing area that facilitates coupling the airfoil vane to the platform during a brazing operation; depositing a wear coating material created by blending a wear material and a bonding alloy together to facilitate high density bonding onto a preselected rub surface of the platform, wherein the rub surface is a distance away from the brazing area and wherein the wear coating material has a bonding temperature selected to facilitate densifying the wear coating material to prevent the wear coating material from flowing beyond the preselected rub surface when the airfoil vane is brazed; positioning the platform adjacent to the airfoil vane; and executing a brazing operation to couple the airfoil valve to the platform, where the brazing operation is at a brazing temperature approximately equivalent to the material bonding temperature such that the airfoil vane is permanently coupled to the platform portion within the brazing area and such that the wear coating material is bonded across only the preselected rub surface of the platform and is not bonded within the brazing area.