[Jewelry making - Article 00902] - [Orchid] Liquid flux crytalizing

[Daniel Conlin]

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    A couple of months ago I started using a liquid fluoride based
    flux (called Diewersol) It's been working great up until now. The
    problem is that now that the weather has changed the flux has
    started to precipitate out into masses of crystals at the bottom
    of the bottle. My workshop isn't cold but it does get down in the
    mid 50's F. Now the only way to use the stuff is to put it in the
    microwave and get it really hot to dissolve the crystals. As soon
    as it cools, the solution separates out again. 

    Anybody run into this problem before? Any solutions come to
    mind? It does occur to me that by dipping my brush into the
    bottle after it had sat out and dried may have introduced the
    seed crytals that set this whole process in motion. I may try
    bringing the whole thing up to a boil to completely disolve the
    crystals and see if that stabilizes it.  

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