[Jewelry making - Article 00142] - Re: [Orchid] T-stake

[Marilyn M. Smith]

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    This is late to answer you but here is one reply I got from art
    metal. Other remarks were not to harden the stake for non-ferrous
    metal. 

    Marilyn Smith 


    I make up a lot of my stakes my self.  Never worry about hardening
    the surface.  Some of my "stakes" are just a piece of pipe sanded
    smooth and put in a vise.  I make them out of what ever piece of
    scrap iron I can find. But I think the question here is the welding
    part.  Even though silver is basically soft to work with it does
    build up tension.  With the tension you get some springy action when
    you hit and sometimes have to hit a little harder.  To weld the joint
    of the two pieces with 'just' a butt joint there probably be some
    cracking of the weld in the future.  To be sure you could use some
    7018 or something and run a couple of beads and V out and probably
    would never have any problem. Depends on how long you want to keep
    the stake for 10 yrs or more?  Or just a onecy twicey thing? If only
    a onecy time I have brazed some and they have held.  But not looking
    at seven inches of leverage. My suggestion is instead of welding why
    not get a piece of scrap 1" plate and cut out the "T".  I usually
    just make one sided stakes (don't need as big of piece of scrap) to
    work with and custom fit to the form required. By the way if she is
    trying to make a stake for raising --- better off to buy, that way the
    angle for raising is all ready figured in to the stake. Here is a pic
    of some home made ones there were made just for one 

    time use. They don't have to be pretty all over, just where you are
    going to hit. It takes some time to grind and sand and file and
    polish but basically free. Warren Townsend 



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