[Jewelry making - Article 00569] - Re: [Orchid] New to bezel setting

[Mlou Brubaker]

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>     Storing those extra snippets will not be clean enough to flow. 

    I do try not to snip up too much silver solder, but I have often
    used leftover pieces with a little bit of tarnish on it and I think
    maybe the flux cleans it off a bit. For your present amount of solder
    snippets, Helen, I would suggest that you put a small piece of anti-
    tarnish paper in the containers with them. If they are tarnished,
    you could clean them with the aluminum foil and baking soda method. 

    One other reason to not snip up too much is that each job requires a
    different amount of solder, so I tend to custom snip for each job.
    This allows cleaning of the sheet or wire of solder, also, before
    snipping. BTW, this is not such an issue with gold.

M'lou Brubaker
Minnesota, USA
http://www.craftswomen.com/M'louBrubaker
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