[Jewelry making - Article 00775] - Re: [Orchid] Hard Soldering

[Karen Christians]

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    Coralnut, I'm gonna chime in here.   I have had consistent problems
    with Rio's hard solder.  It could be very well, that Handy and
    Harmon, just don't make very good hard solders.  Heat sinks are easy
    to get around - just heat the sink, usually a cross-lock tweezer.  I
    pre heat the steel which stays nice and hot, and doesn't  pull the
    heat away from my piece.  I also RARELY heat from below on a trivet,
    because you have to heat the screen, and the piece, and you have all
    this air around you. 

    Most soldering mishaps happen from unclean metal, and poor heat
    control.  I think it is why I am a "backwards" solderer.  I am
    right-handed and like the flame control in my right hand.  I have
    trained my left hand to do the finnicky movements.  Even when you
    have all your parts clean, grease free and fitting with no light
    shining through, my students still can't get a good solder seam. 
    Then I look at their flux and have found the yellow ochre brush
    sitting in there.  Prep takes TIME.  But cleanup takes longer. 

-karen
Karen Christians
M E T A L W E R X
10 Walnut St., Woburn MA 01801
Ph. 781 937 3532, Fx. 781 937 3955
http://www.metalwerx.com/
Jewelry/Metalarts School & Cooperative Studio
Board Member for the Society of North American Goldsmiths


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