[Jewelry making - Article 00351] - Re: [Orchid] Removing soft solder

[Daniel Grandi]

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    Hi, On occasion we have customers who send us castings that have
    parts soldered on with lowmelt lead solder. This type of solder will
    usually melt in a vulcanizer ( not good) so what we have done when
    we see this potential problem is this... We put it in our smallest
    pickle pot with sparex /water and heat it to about 150  oF and leave
    it in the pickle until the finding falls off and the solder
    completely disintegrates off of the silver or gold item. Afterwards ,
    there is usually a very tiny grey area that can be wiped off with
    fine emery paper.   If the pickle is still good, we will keep it in
    a glass jar for other similar situations. 

    Hope this is helpful. 

    Daniel Grandi,  www.racecarjewelry.com We do casting finishing and a
    whole lot more for designers, stores and people in the trade. Contact
    us at   sales AT racecarjewelry.com Or call 401-461-7803 



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