Hi everyone...I was wondering if anyone could provide advice on soldering with hard silver solder. This is not for a project that I am currently working on but I continually have this issue when working with hard solder.
I usually use medium solder in wire form and I am either soldering copper or sterling silver. I make sure that the area is perfectly cleaned and free from oils or firescale or dirt, brush on some handy flux, stick a little piece of cleaned solder into the flux and then proceed to heat it up with the torch. Sometimes the solder moves because of the flux but it always melts and flows the way I want it.
Enter Hard solder in sheet form...I bought some of this because I was making a ring and wanted it to be very sturdy and the store didn't have wire solder at the time. I follow all of the same staps but no matter what I do...I can not get the solder to flow. I melted my ring without making the solder flow and had to buy new supplies to start over.
Does anyone have insight into what I might be doing wrong?
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