[Jewelry making - Article 00233] - Re: [Orchid] Powdered solder

[JAGMAN425]

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>     Daniel,  What is the difference between your method using powderd
>     solder and using paste solder to attatch an earring post??  Thanks
>     for the tip on the immediate quench . 

    Hi Adrienne, The problem I've encountered with paste solder is that
    it is not always evenly distributed into the paste... So sometimes
    you have to add more paste solder... Then, the next time you apply,
    you  have too much. This only becomes critical on certain types of
    jobs and in most cases, I do use paste solder 

    Mostly, I would use the powdered solder in high volume soldering and
    the reason is that I can pick up the post, touch the flux to the
    post, touch the fluxed post to the solder and solder the item. This
    is quicker than applying the paste solder to all the pieces and then
    picking up the post and soldering it...The paste solder takes a bit
    longer to get the paste flowing and the solder melted... Then,
    sometimes the paste doesn't have enough solder in it... so you have
    to reapply more. 

    In one of my past incarnations , I had 10 solderers working for me
    and the head solderer had lots of little tricks like this that
    worked better for certain jobs than on other jobs.. 

    However, for 98 % of the jobs , they were not done this way...
    powdered solder has mostly become a thing of the past. Daniel Grandi 

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