[Jewelry making - Article 00380] - [Orchid] Pickling - when to and when not to?

[Beth Wicker]

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    I am still fairly new to soldering, and the workshop I took had us
    pickling after each solder join.  I was just reading Charles
    Lewton-Brain's treatise on soldering in the Ganoksin library, and he
    says that pickled surfaces don't take solder well - which could be
    why I'm having trouble with the piece I'm working on at the moment,
    which has many solder joints.  The initial ones flowed nicely; as I
    progress I am having a lot of trouble thinking I have the solder
    flowed correctly, then when I put it in the pickle the joint lets
    go. 

    So should I NOT be pickling after each solder?  Do I just flux the
    next joint, solder, flux, solder?  Or do I flux, solder, rinse in
    hot water, flux, solder, rinse in hot water?  And then pickle at the
    end? 

Thanks - any additional tips welcome!
Beth in SC


 

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