[Jewelry making - Article 00065] - Re: [Orchid] Melt and Destroy

[Phillip]

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Hello Laurie,

    Certainly peaks my apatite for a bevy too. There is often a part of a
    job where all things are supposed to come together and you risk ten
    solders in one last effort. It wrecks my nerves, big time. I melted a
    ring the other day when I mounted a platinum head to an already set
    gold band and this particular gold alloy was new to me and it was a
    flowing type. I was surprised at my calm when it sucked away onto the
    platinum at about the same time the medium solder melted. I had to
    start from scratch. I had to cut off the melted part, file out the
    platinum head and re-polish it, re-pave the new part before I mounted
    it again, add 5mm to the band and basically start from scratch to
    finish a ring which was paying me next to nothing. Sux, but it
    happens. It is much easier when you have somebody to blame, unless it
    actually IS there fault. 

Phillip
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