Newbie soldering problems....
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Originally Posted by
Dennis
Good for you Andy. now you've got to graduate to making teapots. Regards, Dennis.
Hi again!
So here's my next quandary ..... I've made a small ring out of silver clay and I was wanting to solder a jump ring on to it which I would than hang a charm from. The idea was that the ring would then slide on to a bracelet.
I placed the ring on its edge, and held the jump ring on top of it using reverse action tweezers.
I applied borax flux and a pallion of medium silver solder. However I noticed that when heated, the ring changed shape/size and pulled away from the jump ring leading to solder failure.
I tried it with the ring laying flat and the tweezers holding the jump ring on the side but the same happened.
The only thing I managed to do, was melt the pallion, and the borax appeared to vitrify or something, leaving a very hard, glassy residue on the silver that was very hard to remove.
Any idea how I would overcome this issue?
I considered making a loop of wire with a small tail (kind of like a table tennis bat shape), drilling the ring and then popping the tail into the hole and then soldering, since this way any movement is irrelevant because the loop will move with it rather than relative to it? The problem is this is very labour intensive because I'll then need to file away any excess tail inside the ring, and I have quite a few to do. I also wonder if I'm going to have the same problem trying to solder to the little charms I've made, although these aren't rings, so maybe any expansion/contraction won't be as much of an issue...
Any advice gratefully received :-)
Thanks
Andy
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