[Jewelry making - Article 00549] - Re: [Orchid] Soldering station

[Suzy3D]

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    Dave, I'm the self-confessed messy bench/obsessively clean soldering
    station person. 

    When I first learned silversmithing, I was sharing a soldering area
    with about 20 other people over the course of any given week, and
    not one of them cleaned up after themselves. Consequently, solder
    pads were filthy and usually hid tiny (or not so tiny) globs of
    solder, silver, and who knows what that would end up on the back of
    any piece heated on the board. Clean that *^%$*% off the back of
    your carefully made jewelry a few times, and you learn to find a
    clean place to solder. Additionally, solder picks were always nasty,
    and you never knew what was lurking in the pickle pot. 

    I now work with only .999 platinum and 24kt gold, so any
    contamination is a disaster. Woe unto anyone who messes with my
    ceramic solder pad or beloved ceramic tweezers. The good news is I'm
    also now flux and pickle-free. Yay! 

Karen Hemmerle



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