[Jewelry making - Article 00099] - Re: [Orchid] Hard Soldering

[jesse brennan]

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    A lot of  "sterling " sold by street vendors etc there is Alpacca
    and a lot of the raw material is used  in Mexico.  It is not legal
    to make the missreputation there -but  it is done.  It is fairly
    easy to spot due to the slight yellow tint. 

    Leaded  brasses  including nickle brass  made for machining may  be
    leaded.  It does not silver braze well . The same goes  for some
    free machining steel -- terrible to silver braze.  Silver braze
    materials should not contain lead - I don't understand the source of
    the statement that lead  helps.??? Jesse 






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