[Jewelry making - Article 00226] - Re: [Orchid] Solder Ghosts

[christopher]

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Hi there

    With silver its normally fairly simple to find solder.. lightly warm
    the piece with an oxidizing flame and let it air cool.. the solder
    will show As a different tint to the rest of the mettle 

    To remove solder, well the simple solution is obviously not to use
    to Much solder , rather too little that too much, you can always add
    solder But when I do slip up it would depend on the surface as to how
    I remove it. On flat surfaces its simpler to just file and paper the
    surface, between Claws or around tube or difficult places I find that
    drawing a hollow wire About 1mm diameter and warming the piece till
    the solder is liquid and Touch the area with the wire. Solder will
    flow happily up the hollow Wire and away from the problem area.. not
    sure how effective this will Be on silver, works great on 18 cct and
    9 ct jobs as well as platinum 

Hope that helps

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