Vanessa
10-08-2014, 11:20 PM
Yes it's me again with one of those bizarre questions...
Not sure how to explain this but I had a complicated soldering job (complicated for me - soldering one piece at a funny angle onto a flat surface) and so I held the angled part to be joined with the tweezers until the solder flowed and all was great. Until, that is, I realized I had soldered the dam thing to the tweezers.
So after a slight panic and several minutes of wondering how on earth I had managed it and trying to come up with a way of separating the items without causing injury to me or the piece, I somehow managed to prize the piece off relatively unscathed.
But I have now pickled and filed and polished and gone back and scrubbed and pickled and polished and so on but deep within the nooks and cranies of the piece is what looks like a horrible brown peppering of brown stuff (I can't photograph it I can't get in close enough). I've been at it with various grits on the dremel but I can't remove it. I am going to liver of sulfur that particular spot anyway but am frustrated I can't remove it.
So, any ideas on how i remove the remnants of the melted tweezer? And how to prevent it again in the future (first time have ever soldered anything to the tweezers**).
Any tips, tricks and advice welcomed!
Thanks again.
** correction I once picked up the wrong tweezers off the bench and melted my plastic pickle tongs when I picked up a freshly soldered earring - that was quite messy to clean up! Melted plastic is very stringy and stubborn to remove.
(Oh dear....I can already see my tutors at the jewellery school clutching and shaking their heads as they realise just how clumsy I am... ha ha 6 weeks before I descend upon them!)
:o
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Not sure how to explain this but I had a complicated soldering job (complicated for me - soldering one piece at a funny angle onto a flat surface) and so I held the angled part to be joined with the tweezers until the solder flowed and all was great. Until, that is, I realized I had soldered the dam thing to the tweezers.
So after a slight panic and several minutes of wondering how on earth I had managed it and trying to come up with a way of separating the items without causing injury to me or the piece, I somehow managed to prize the piece off relatively unscathed.
But I have now pickled and filed and polished and gone back and scrubbed and pickled and polished and so on but deep within the nooks and cranies of the piece is what looks like a horrible brown peppering of brown stuff (I can't photograph it I can't get in close enough). I've been at it with various grits on the dremel but I can't remove it. I am going to liver of sulfur that particular spot anyway but am frustrated I can't remove it.
So, any ideas on how i remove the remnants of the melted tweezer? And how to prevent it again in the future (first time have ever soldered anything to the tweezers**).
Any tips, tricks and advice welcomed!
Thanks again.
** correction I once picked up the wrong tweezers off the bench and melted my plastic pickle tongs when I picked up a freshly soldered earring - that was quite messy to clean up! Melted plastic is very stringy and stubborn to remove.
(Oh dear....I can already see my tutors at the jewellery school clutching and shaking their heads as they realise just how clumsy I am... ha ha 6 weeks before I descend upon them!)
:o
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