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    Ok so in my soldering class I learnt a new technique, soldering directly from the soldering strip. I kinda enjoy the really clean seam you get & the fact that it eliminates any chance of the pallions pooling a little at the site where they are placed. Was just wondering who uses this technique & if you use it frequently?
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    I use it a lot for long joins (boxes and large clasps for example) and also if I'm using copper solder, which is tiresome to cut!

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    I use it if I have a big piece to do too or if I haven't cut enough pallions and I take it along the seam

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    I may give this a try as when I place pallions, quite often they will jump off and seem to be almost repelled by the main item almost like magnetic in reverse. Then I have to spend time placing either new pallions or finding the old ones so everything cools down again. Do you have to hammer the solder first or cut it in thin strips or use just as it comes.

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    Pat, that will be the flux bubbling up, if you apply the heat more slowly to start with you should be able to avoid it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Patstone View Post
    I may give this a try as when I place pallions, quite often they will jump off and seem to be almost repelled by the main item almost like magnetic in reverse. Then I have to spend time placing either new pallions or finding the old ones so everything cools down again. Do you have to hammer the solder first or cut it in thin strips or use just as it comes.
    Also flux your pallions, warm the piece slowly, they may move but it's possible to keep the heat going gently and just use the tweezers to push them back in line. If they are jumping off completely the it's as sarah says and it's too hot too quickly. I'm going back to using a borax cone instead of auflux, I think everything was more stable with borax as it wasn't so liquid
    With the hard solder, I always cut down the width of it maybe 5 or 6 times, I do this to cut pallions anyway, fold the rest back which will give you a hand hold on the solder strip and leave one for soldering with. Rub it down with the file, flux and off you go. It will take a bit of practise to get rhythm going on big pieces and to judge when it's hot enough to put the solder to the work. I don't really use it on small soldering jobs.

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    Dont you hammer the solder to tissue paper thin first, so the first puff of breath and it almost floats away, let alone heat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Patstone View Post
    Dont you hammer the solder to tissue paper thin first, so the first puff of breath and it almost floats away, let alone heat.
    I never have Pat, it's not how I was taught. I know a lot of people put it though the rolling mill and although I have one now I still do it the way I always have and it works for me.

    If you still want to do that, the easiest way would be to warm up the piece to tack off your flux, then add your fluxed pallions to the piece and the 2 will sort of glue together with the heat already there and stay in place. I've never known any other way of soldering so not sure if Tasha is being taught to roll hers down before stick soldering.

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    Yep I was taught to roll down before stick soldering & also to use an easy solder. Pat a couple of good tips I learnt re pallions is to cut them into the flux (i use a borax cone & dish) get yourself a really decent pair of tweezers to place the pallions, when you pick the pallion out place it on the edge of the dish (this absorbs some of the liquid so the pallion doesn't stick to the tweezers) then warm gently heat using a really bushy flame that curves up at the end before adjusting the flame & going in to solder properly. I was also told not to panic & if the pallion moves & the piece cools that's ok, just move it back & start again, spend time setting up the job & getting it right as it takes a long time to clean up mistakes.
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    Thanks, sounds a good idea, save them jumping all over the floor.

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