[Jewelry making - Article 00277] - Re: [Orchid] Soldering on snake chain

[Beth Rosengard]

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>     if you solder pickle and then manipulate the soldered end of the
>     chain-the flexibility returns. 

    Can't be done.  What probably happened is that you had flux
    "cementing" the chain so that it was inflexible and appeared to have
    been soldered. Pickling removed most of the flux and manipulating the
    chain got rid of any remaining residue.  If the chain had truly been
    soldered, you would have been out of luck. 

Beth



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