[Jewelry making - Article 00048] - Re: [Orchid] Hard Time Soldering

[John Donivan]

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    You don't say really enough about your project - how long is long?,
    how big is big? I'm unclear about the layout of this bezel thing,
    exactly. That doesn't matter a whole lot really, because your problem
    is simple - not enough heat. I made what might be a similar project
    once - a silver box about 4" x 8", and I used two prestolite torches
    with big tips to solder it. You need to get the entire piece of
    silver, bezel, base and all, up to about 90% of soldering temp., and
    that can take a lot of heat. And you don't want to concentrate on the
    solder, because it just won't go until the base is hot. You'll just
    boil the solder and ruin it. I wouldn't use hard solder on a huge box
    top - the heat you will need to flow it well can and likely will fry
    (crystallize) your entire lid. I'd use easy, and then you must
    realize that, like Kevin Costner, if you heat it {enough} it will
    flow. 

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