[Jewelry making - Article 00178] - Re: [Orchid] Cutting bezels easy way

[Helen Hill]

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Hi Don,

>     the reason you can maybe solder part of a job with the butane
>     is....the metal is clean and the flux fresh and working. The longer
>     you heat it....the dirtier things become....the flux burns off,
>     crystalizes, the metal oxidizes and things really get messy. 

    In such circumstances I do quench and pickle before carrying on. My
    little butane "torch" is getting more and more unreliable as it's
    been used for hours at a time for months on end and I'm sure it
    wasn't designed for such a high volume of use. I have been soldering
    for a number of months now and so have got become very accomplished
    at neatly soldering small jobs without any problems but it is the
    large pieces and I am 99% positive that once I have the higher
    temperature flame of my oxy/propane torch, I will be able to quickly
    solder the larger pieces too. 

Helen
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