[Jewelry making - Article 00231] - Re: [Orchid] Pripps' flux won't adhere

[Warren Townsend]

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    Yeah guys, and those cheap brushes work the best, the ones with the
    bare wooden handle.  Maybe a little long at first but they get
    shorted up pretty quick. While on the subject of brushes, since I
    also add a little flux too my joints, besides Pripps, what do most
    of you use to applyl flux when the metal is hot. This is adding flux
    after you have cured (turned golden) the Pripps.  I was shopping
    around for a brass bristle shaped like a little 1/4" in wide paint
    brush. The bristles 1/4 to 1/2 inch long, just enough to hold some
    flux, but flexible enough to push into the joints. Never could find
    one, was wondering too if the brass was kept in the flux jar would
    it contaminate the flux? So far now made a little spatula out of a
    strip of stainless. Added a little wooden handle too.  Does not work
    too bad, lets you smash the flux into the joints. 

Warren Townsend 
http://www.geocities.com/copper1002000/photos.html 
Trenton, MI 48183

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