Don't forget titanium and niobium for sensitive skin
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Don't forget titanium and niobium for sensitive skin
My concern is that I have got some surgical steel discs and posts, but will they silver solder onto silver successfully.?
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Yes they will. Try it on copper first if you are in doubt. The post will still be quite stiff, even after heating, so there is no need to harden it, but a tentative twist will assure you that the joint is strong. Dennis
I tend to prefer slightly more aggressive flux than borax for stainless steel - Tenacity #5, for example.
Yes, agreed and for other base metals too, sometimes. Trouble is it's quite an investment and what I bought maybe 20 years ago is mostly still there. Also you have to pickle quite fiercely in a hot solution to get off the glaze that forms. Dennis.
Oh yes, it's a pig to remove in comparison.
You might have to, to get off glaze due to flux, or brighten the silver part. The stainless steel will go dark grey, but is easily repolished. Dennis